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 Daniel Flores talks about the story behind every murder in his new concept story "A Gentleman's Hurricane", the critically acclaimed new album from Mind's Eye – out now on Lion Music.
 A GENTLEMAN'S HURRICANE
 As
you all may know the story is about a top assassin called Adam
Evangelista. His is really having second thoughts about his profession
and wants to take a step outside this world. He can't do that before
his last job. When trying to dig inside his own mind he takes refuge in
a local church where he then meets Father Cavallero Dimori who is a
retired head priest from the Vatican. Adam poor his heart out for him
and confesses all his former crimes to the shocked priest, as you all
know the priests take a vow of secrecy so he can't tell anyone about
these confessions.
01. PRAYING FOR CONFESSION
We
meet our hero or assassin if you will, after he has shot three shots in
the woods... why? At this point we just don't know. He goes out of the
woods and washes his hands in an empty public toilet. He starts to
speak about his past when looking into the dirty mirror. He goes back
in time to where he is going to speak with the priest (as you hear the
children sing) Adam is walking trough the church's hallway, he suddenly
sees his own reflection and can't stand his face, he crushes the
mirror. By doing that he goes even further back to history where he was
an orphan where he was badly molested and hurt by the headmaster. He
learnt what pain was and it was then when he knew what we wanted to do
when he would become old, a man who hurt other people, let other know
the pain he went through. At the end of the song we go back to when
Adam talks to the Priest Cavallero in the confession booth.
02. SEVEN DAYS
This
is the first murder he chose to talk about. The murder of Olof Palme;
prime minister of Sweden and leader of the social democratic party
(whose logo is a red rose). Adam has much regret of this particular
assassination as he felt Palme was a great man... but orders are
orders. Adam take orders from the Illuminati who is the counterpart of
the church and he gets all his orders form his contact person, an ice
cold Englishman who's name will never be revealed. During the
confession of this murder Adam tries to give the priest a picture of
what he goes trough as a professional assassin. He has seven days to
pour his heart out before his last job.Â
03. ASSASSINATION
This
is where he tells the priest about a job done in the late sixties. A
man named Robert Kennedy. Â Adam has a huge headache when he speaks
about this, ironically he shot Robert in the head three timesÂ… maybe he
is feeling the pain of his victimsÂ… The priest orders him to take a
pill.
04. CHAOS UNLEASHED
Adam
does not feel much regret when he speaks about next man to feel his
anger. Martin Luther king. What strikes Adam is that most people feel
that the whole thing is just a show to be seen on TV. He tells the
priest about the people who watched the story on TV in a fast
restaurant next day after the job was done, how can people just sit
there and eat while watching this? Adam explains how he used the media
coverage to hide himself being dressed as a homeless that day. Maybe
that's why this country is collapsing, people just don't give a damn
anymoreÂ…
05. HELL'S INVITATION
The
priest tries now to get Adam into seeing the light of a religious life.
He tries to make Adam think he is a just the hand of god. Adam does not
believe in the afterlife and god means nothing to him, he knows that if
he would exist he would never let Adam in heaven anyway, not after what
he has done anyway. He compares Jesus to Malcolm X, another victim of
Adam's gun. Like Jesus, Malcolm also carried a cross, a cross which he
carried for his people and just like Jesus he was betrayed by his own
apostles.
06. FEED MY REVOLVER
Adam
now recalls another murder and this is where he gets to hear the voice
of Illuminati. He feels proud to hear this voice and follows the
directions over the phone. As he recalls this victim is none other
than John f. Kennedy, Robert's brotherÂ… Adam feels guilt coming over
him as he has always wished for a brotherÂ… He killed them bothÂ…how
could he? Adams explains exactly how things happen to father Cavallero
telling him that he had huge help from his friends in the CIA. This is
actually Adam's first big job and he recalls having no regrets what so
ever back then, not bad for a 20 year old kid.
07. ASHES TO ASHES
Adam
quickly goes to a more recent job. The assassination of Georges Besse
the director of Renault (the car manufacture) who has just released a
large sum of workers, a perfect change for Adam and the Illuminate to
get rid of him as he has lost credibility and can no longer be part of
the Illuminati anymore. Adam also explains that during that night a
woman has come to seek him, apparently it's his daughter "Pandora" and
she hands him a giftÂ…
08. THE HOUR OF NEED
Adam
recalls this story very well and it was the first time he had to kill a
woman. This woman was apparently a huge movie star who also made money
as a high society call girl, her name? Yes, it's was Norma JeanÂ… Adam
disguised as an American, multi million dollar man explains to the
priest how he felt before poisoning this woman to death, right after
having sex with herÂ… He had to shut her up; apparently the president of
USA had an affair with her and said too much. Poor girlÂ…
09. RED WINTER SIRENS
For
a long time Adam wanted to go to Russia. He went there by train from a
nearby country. Unfortunately for Adam vacation was over when he
received the message to kill national democratic leader Giorgi
Chanturia, in a cold December night. Giorgias first president had to be
eliminated by four Assassins, Adam recalls meeting a lot of friends
from the times in IRA in Ireland and the man responsible for
introducing Adam to the Illuminati. He recalls former USSR as a cold
and forgotten worldÂ…
10. SKIN CRAWL
Now
to Italy, says Adam to Father Cavallero. It's was the late 70's Adam
was ordered to frame and kill a man named Giuseppe Impastato, a
political activist from Palermo. Adam explains that he made it look
like a suicide but in reality it was an assassination by the
Illuminati. This poor man had become a problem for them and they needed
to get rid of him before he become too strong.
11. GRAVEYARD HANDS
As
he told the priest earlier, Adam had joined the IRA in his 30's and
this is where he tells about the story of Christopher Ewart-Biggs a
British selected governor in Ireland he assassinated, a man hated by
the Irish people. He recalls the people of Ireland being a happy people
with many scars to carry from the long bad treatment of the British
authorities. As Adam is half Italian half Irish (according to his
papers) he has a special place in his heart fro the Irish people.
12. SAY GOODNIGHT
This
is where Adam starts to recognize the Priest Cavallero, he has heard
his voice somewhere before, where can it be? While telling him the
story of a job which to him was scary and yet very fulfilling of a man
named Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo from Mexico a head priest and respected
by many. Adam chooses to tell the story to Father Cavallero in a poetic
way as he doesn't want to scare away him. Father Cavallero is shocked
to stand before the killer of one of his peers. Adam suddenly
recognizes the voice of Father CavalleroÂ… Could it be? No!?
13. PANDORA'S MUSICAL BOX
Adam
examines the voice of Father Cavallero in a much different way now he
knows that it's him, he is so sure. He has to make a decisionÂ… Adam
starts to tell father Cavallero about his past as an orphan. Father
Cavallero recognizes allot of what Adam talks about. Could he be?
Wonders the old priest… No, it's impossible he comforts himself. Adam
on the other side of the confession booth is sure, absolutely sure that
Father Cavallero is the dreaded headmaster from back in orphanage
school. Â Adams saviour is also his worst demon, what can he do? Should
he kill him or forgive him? Turn the other cheek?
Is the ending a happy or a sad ending? That's completely up to you the listener to decide.
If
you buy the album you'll figure out why the story starts out in the
woods, as the story starts with the ending just like in a Quentin
Tarantino movie.
Hope you will like the story and may this shed a light on you the listener.
Daniel Flores 2007
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