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My first listening to Lokin roll was Weird, as usual with Kozi, since Cabinet, i was travelling.
I love the guitar in this intro, it really gets you in the album ,into the Kozi ship!
Lokin'Roll is like a treacherous departure to the sky , maybe Loki's anger to some forbidden trip to the human being.
But here you can notice something,it's not Kozi but it's Kozi.It"s different from the Kozi we know but it's him more than ever he seems to be deep inside his song, with high decontraction.
A forbidden trip indeed like the ancient Zygourat, the Babylon Tower,so here comes Babylo.
The guitar is awesome, the drums are "tribal", it seems going wilder wilder..
Scale...trash ....freaky...escalation...it is so hard to climb so high..and then the thunder strike,the vocals are painful..
And then he falls..
He falls ,it"s melancholic ,he fails in his trip to reach the sky, nobody knows where he will land, but now it doesn't matter,QUE SERA SERA,
He flies, lying in sweet clouds, his eyes sparkle with the lightning thunder,and the rain is slowly melting with his tears..
A slow keyboard, a deep voice, a music turning again ang again and his head....
Somewhere there's a bit of happiness, the pleasure to take in his hands ,like the pleasure that took Icare flying near the sun.
Yeah , truly, between this joy ,and this sadness,there's a CURIOUS NUANCE.Something lying beneath,in the human nature that push it to face the highest, and the childish pleasure just to be near it during just a few second. It's a tale told in fatalistic way..
This songs truly remind me of his EOD works, more introspective, and more industrial, with the same type of programming stuff.
So the question which side is too blame in the end ,the one that want to be always higher or the childish : WHO'S MIND
The music seems to think about it, a guitar sounding like a waiting music,to tell a future answer..
A first answer is that both sides are to blame, Both are darks part of the human being, that makes him a NIGHT CREATURE.
This song has a jazzy spirit, it's like "i 'm dark,so what? let's have fun" , a dancing vampire, laughing of his condition.
But vampire are not human being, human being have a difference , they have souls, and as a french author says, THE EYES are the soul's windows. I think it's the more "devilish" song of the album, but very human too,it's sensual, forbidden, and attractive.
But Things would have been to simple to see human as a dark and bad creature..
So he claims: I'M NOT! oh Kozi's you"re such a rebel even good pure rock'n'roll suits you.
His voice is so different on this one..and there it is..he is not so dark, he is king,amusing, and it seems like he is even dancing..
In the end,both sides of human lie in just in one dance the LOKI N'ROLL, a dance where the human being is himself but where he sometimes loses his mind into in the music and try to be god.
Sorry it was a bit long but that's truly what this awesome album inspires me.
My favourite songs are QUE SERA SERA ,and THE EYES.