The starting point is magic realism, which is a literature genre [in which magical elements appear in a realistic settings, think Pan's Labyrinth] that is spawned from the post-Colonial conflict in South American countries during the '40s, '50s and '60s, which includes the work of [Jorge Luis] Borges, [Ernesto] Sábato, [Gabriel Garcia] Marquez, [Julio] Cortázar, and there's two sides of this concept. The first side is that I wanted create this text, lyrics, in the same style of writing as these authors, which is very multi-layered, very intertextual, mixed between normal stories and this heightened, fevered kind of reality that is more twisted and maybe even magic. There's different levels in the text interacting with each other and some hidden meanings to them. And the other part of the concept is, when I started studying this literature genre I realized they were all part of post-modernism and post-structuralism, and these authors were really against one way of explaining the world or one way of explaining reality, and I was really intrigued by that. Therefore, the lyrics are written by me, I created them once, but when you read them or listen to them you create them again into your own context, into your reality. So the concept of the album is ever-changing and deals with the idea that we have to conquer or reconquer reality every day, every single one of us and nothing is what it seems.
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