The Black Angels song El Jardin is an interesting concept to awaken our minds to the man made harms to nature. The band themselves are simply amazing in the studio and Live. I had the privilige to interview them a while ago and they are selfless in their approach to bring togetherness and awareness through music and art.. Like ourselves..

Lead Singer Alex Maas was interviewed by Tree People (The full post I will share on our socials) where he stated the concept behind this song and the vide..

“The original idea, and this didn’t quite make the video, was that these billionaires owned the last four or five percent of the world’s forests. We wanted to tie that into what’s going on now with virtual reality. The concept was to put a kid in the future who has never ever seen nature before… never experienced because they’re living in this Mad Max world… and they find this VR headset and their mind is blown with this download of information of what [used to exist]. It’s such a mental overload that [the kid] starts glitching out because of the intensity of what they see and the beauty of what they see. What we were trying to create was a stark dystopian future and then show how beautiful the world is right now”.

Cool..

LYRICS:

A forest burns, you ask for me to save you
But I’m running out of time
As the years go passing by I realized
You’re killing us both

Watch it all slip away
(Por fin se va acabar)
Or leave a garden for your kids to play
(Jamás van a alcanzar)
A gift given by the stars
(Por fin se va acabar)
You can build me up or you can rip me apart
(Jamás van a alcanzar)
You can build me up or you can rip me apart
You can build me up or you can rip me apart

How could they have done to you my dear
What no one else could ever withstand?
Bound by so many many many hands
An open sore covered in sand

I will follow you my dear
‘Til the oceans drown us both

Watch it all slip away
(Por fin se va acabar)
No garden for the kids to play
(Jamás van a alcanzar)
A gift given by the stars
(Por fin se va acabar)
You can build me up or you can rip me apart
(Jamás van a alcanzar)

It’s been coming, such a long time coming
All the ages calling, whispering so softly
We were deaf until now
We were deaf until now
We were deaf until now
We were deaf until now
(You can build me up or you can rip me apart)
We were deaf until now
We were deaf until now
(You can build me up or you can rip me apart)
We were deaf until now
We were deaf until now
(You can build me up or you can rip me apart)