Two records, ten sides, one argument. Blak Saagan's Se Ci Fosse La Luce Sarebbe Bellissimo and Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni read as the same book at two magnifications, and this bundle pairs them for the first time: the long overdue repress of the 2021 double LP alongside the triple album that answers it.

The first takes a single captivity and maps it in detail. Every title attaches to the 1978 kidnapping of the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades: the fifty-four days, the eighty-six letters written in detention, the negotiations, the unresolved role of the intelligence services. Built on Farfisa organ, Roland drum machines, Siel Orchestra and Moog, it moves from Kraftwerkian loops to cold synth-wave, from Goblin at their 1978 peak to the flutes and percussion of Italian police soundtracks and the terrestrial lineage of Alessandro Alessandroni, Egisto Macchi and Piero Umiliani. The soundtrack to a film nobody shot.

The second widens the same word until it covers everything. Released five years later, it scores a City with no era and no coordinates, held by a theocratic regime that governs through chemical sedation and propaganda, and follows the captivity back across ten thousand years of patriarchy, monotheism, colonialism and capital. One hundred and eight minutes, thirteen pieces, the first Blak Saagan album to carry voices, built with the Iranian illustrator Majid Bita for the Opale series.

Heard in sequence the two describe an arc: from one man in a room to the entire species. Bundle of the 2LP repress, 500 copies with insert and sticker, and the 3LP. Both on Maple Death Records.