The legend of 'Kobaļa'

Translation: Betsy Draine


© Christian Vander

Earth, This concerns you, Your systems crush and your revolts assassinate: actually, you destroy what you don't understand.We know that you too will be destroyed. Our music witnesses to the Beauty that you want to ignore, and to our hatred of your accursed evolution. Beyond space and time, a planet, KOBAĻA, awaits us. We have known this world since the day we opened our eyes, millions of years ago. If only all those suffocating down here could follow us. Only the hypocrite has no hopes! Earth! You are now only oblivion.

KOBAĻA
All the singing and vocals are in Kobaļan, our own language. The music is expressive enough so that you can follow, for yourself, the thread of the voyage.

THE VOYAGE

KOBAĻA
Call to all on Earth who are weary of the conditions afflicted on them, to leave with us for Kobaļa. The ship is in view. - recitation of the commandments of Kobaļa. - evocation of the splendour of Kobaļa. Procession toward the ship. - the emigrants' aggressive thoughts toward the Earth, expressed by the guitar. Entering the ship.

AĻNA
Beginning of the voyage. Nostalgic thoughts of the passenger who have cut all ties with the past. The joy of the departure dissolves all sorrows, as the voyage continues. One arrives in view of the stopover planet Malaria; the ship leader.

MALARIA
The Earth stains the sky with a pale gleam. The Kobaļan's spit out to the Earth theirrancour and their spite, recalling its horrors and injustices. Isn't it said that all wrongs are paid for eventually?

SOHĻA
Night has fallen on Malaria. Day rises softly. We must set out again.   SCKXYSS: The ship takes off. Rain of meteors. The ship reaches outer space, in sight of Kobaļa.

AURAĖ
The ship turns in orbit toward Kobaļa. The passengers witness the dawn, and discover the planet, marvelling. The ship lands: we are forever KOBAĻA.

THAUD ZAÏA
One of us is in love. Only he knows with what or with whom, only he knows how...

NAÜ EKTILA
Nature seems to consider us intruders. We exhort her with our songs to open her self and to reveal her marvels. She accepts with benevolence - We participate, with others, in a giant ballet of monsters - Under the suns, we give free reign to our joy. Then twilight falls

STÖAH
Time has passed. Life on Kobaļa flowers in Happiness and Beauty. Earth has learned of our existence; she is boiling over. The Kobaļan's sense they must gather together. One of them reveals to the others the problems posed by Earth, and their solution. The Kobaļan's set to work with fury: the results will be conclusive.

MŪH
We return to Earth in order to expose the splendour of Kobaļa, which is only Beauty, Happiness, Wisdom. We again invite those who wish to follow us, and to that end we recount to the Earth its own story. Alas, the only response is the threat of the destruction of Kobaļa. We reveal that we possess STÖAH. We set out again for Kobaļa. The clamour of Earth dies away.



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