The machines have outlived their creators, but they really miss their company.

Andria and the boy sat on the edge of the Sky Sailor as it made it's way slowly over the landscape of the ruined world.

The boy looked down at the vast devastation."Do you think technology is a good thing?" He asked.

Andria thought for a moment. "I suppose it depends on what it's used for."
She paused.

"Would you like to see something beautiful?" She asked.

The boy looked at her an smiled. "Yes!"

Andria delicately manipulated the controls on her chest and a small opening appeared in the center. She carefully pulled out a small and beautifully intricate metallic object. It glittered with tiny blue and yellow lights.

The boys eyes widened. "Is this your heart?" The boy asked as he stared deeply into the layers of the complex little machine.

Andria smiled. "Something like that, perhaps my mind or my soul."

The boy was transfixed by it's beauty. "Can I touch it?"

"Yes." Andria said calmly.

The boy reached forward slowly. The Object was warm to the touch and he could feel a smooth tingling in his fingertips. He looked up at her face and said. "I think this technology is very good!"

Andria smiled. "So do I!" 


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Icons of Andria is a recording project, a collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees on a Sci-fi concept album. Original concept & artwork by Rodney Sellars. Guitar & Lyrics by Rodney Sellars. Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ken Negrete. Midi/Synthesizers/Piano by Ken Negrete. Vocals by Fabiola Sanchez & Rodney Sellars. Bass and Percussion on Operator's Dream by Joel O'Neill. Lap Harp & Glockenspiel by Taihei Tajima.

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Operator's Dream
(Lyrics by Rodney Sellars)
 
The Beautiful the true and brave
and all the things they love and save
they'll take you to another place in your mind
 
The train for heaven leaves today
it goes through hell along the way
It never knows when it has gone way too far
 
they only leave in one direction
 
I, I'm in the light
stay awhile
I don't know why I'm in the light
stay awhile
 
They took the radio too far
They played it to the lonely stations in the wilderness
they've been gone too long
 
This is the loneliness machine
The operators hopes and dreams
She'll take you to another place in your mind
 
They only leave in one direction
 
I, I'm in the light
stay awhile
I don't know why I'm in the light
stay awhile
I, I'm in the light
stay awhile
I don't know why I'm in the light
stay awhile

Operator's Dream

"It's kind of a dark solution story, but it's also a spiritual analogy. Basically this future world is poisoned, and a human boy is dying because of it. He finds an android woman who wants to save him. The only way she can do so is by transforming him into an machine like herself. I think it's my futuristic paranoia that machines will either be the death of us all, or our saviors!" -Rodney Sellars
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Icons of Andria is a recording project, a studio collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees on a Sci-fi concept album.

Original concept & artwork by Rodney Sellars. Guitar & Lyrics by Rodney Sellars. Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ken Negrete. Midi/Synthesizers/Piano by Ken Negrete. Vocals by Fabiola Sanchez & Rodney Sellars. Bass by Joel O'Neill.

Contact: iconsofandria@gmail.com

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