THE DIARY of NATHAN ADLER or the art-ritual murder of baby grace blue

A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle

Album Concept - "Outside introduced the characters of one of Bowie's short stories; a "non-linear gothic drama hyper cycle" called the "Diaries of Nathan Adler". The album pamphlet outlined the story of a somewhat cyberpunk version of the year 1999, in which the government had created a new bureau to investigate the phenomenon of Art Crime. In this future, murder and mutilation of bodies had become a new underground art craze. The main character, Nathan Adler, was in the business of deciding what of this was legally acceptable as art and what was, in a word, trash. The album is filled with references to characters and their lives as he investigates the complicated events leading up to the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl."

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