Universal Emotions From Nephylion

Universal Emotions from Nephylion is our third album released on January 2020.

Anecdote : we had to start with something related with time… a wise mix of all the songs of the album.

02 L’âme
Creation Date : February 2019
Finishing Date : December 2019

• Instruments : Alesis Micron, DSI Rev2, Yamaha EX7, Sonic Cell, Korg Z1; VST : GrooveAgent 4
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : VicomtiX
• Vocal : VicomtiX

Anecdote : the bassline comes from a jam session where our friends of EdiptiX were again inspired by Jean-Michel, undisputed master of the keyboards.
This track opens the album and attempts to explore the meanders of the soul.

Lyrics
Le gouffre du temps
S’enfonce de le labirynthe de l’âme

La force de l’âme
Fait plier le temps
L’âme traverse le temps
L’âme…l’âme…l’âme
L’âme est le temps
L’âme est le temps

03 Changing Mood
Creation Date : December 2018
Finishing Date : December 2019

• Instruments : Roland Gaia, DSI Rev2, Moog Sub37; VST : GrooveAgent 4, , Hypnodance, HALion Sonic, Vocal Synth, Retrologue, Padshop
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : VicomtiX
• Vocal : VicomtiX

Anecdote : What if we tried something different? We hence change of mood in this jazzy pop-rock song... with EdiptiX' soul still.

Lyrics
I Feel Lonely
So lonely in the dark
The sky is grey
And the rain is pouring down
Light is like a shadow
Nothing else to do
Nothing…
Nothing… but wait
Ooh… Suddenly the sky is turning blue
The clouds disappear
And the blue is lightning

I feel good now
I feel good now

Ouuhh… I wanna dance
Oh… Or maybe a little bit later
Well, I don’t know… It depends
Mmh… Music’s good

I feel like a child

Mmh.. Take some rest now

Time to go ahead
This is amazing
This sound is really good

Just don’t know what to do
Just don’t know what to say
Except it’s so beautiful
I like the way it sounds

Feel better and better now

Calm down.. Calm down
Take a deep breath
Think ahead

It swings now
Mmh.. Great
I also like the congas

For sure I will dance now

It really sounds good
Funny… And happy

This is the way I feel
This is the way I feel
I feel happy now
I feel happy now
This is the way I feel

04 Blue Sun
Creation Date : February 2019
Finishing Date : January 2020

• Instruments : Alesis Micron, DSI Rev2, Moog Sub37, Yamaha EX7, Sonic Cell; VST : GrooveAgent 4, Hypnotic Dance, HALion 2, Halion Sonic SE
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

Anecdote : back to that « piano strings » formerly used in the old band of Esynth. There is nothing better to compose and then let's listen....

05 Hommages
Creation Date : April 2019
Finishing Date : August 2019

• Instruments : no hardware; VST : HALion Symphonic Orchestra, Spector, Mystic, Padshop, HALion Sonic
• Samples : « This track contains samples from President John Kennedy’s address at Rice University on the nation’s space effort (12/09/1962) – © Public Domain.
• www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk…ns-space-effort »
• Music : VicomtiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

Anecdote : Initially a wish to explore the VST HALion Symphonic Orchestra, it turned into a double tribute to all those men and women who conquer space and to the composer Gustav Mahler.
A combination of 2 universes, the space, the future and the stellar sounds on one hand, and the softness and the classic sounds on the other hand.
With a touch of revisited cult speech.

Text
The vast stretches of the unknown
and the unfinished
still far outstrip
the 50,000 years
of man’s recorded history

Man emerged from his caves
man learned to write
and use
the steam engine
new sources of power
electric lights, telephones, automobiles, airplanes, television
and nuclear power
Create new ills, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers
So, move forward…

His quest for knowledge
is one of the great adventures of all time
we mean to be a part of it
we mean to lead it
new knowledge and new rights
new techniques of learning
new tools and computers
will become a force for good

This conquest deserves the best of all mankind
We do not intend to stay behind
Why climb the highest mountain

We choose to go to the moon
because that goal will serve the best
of our energies and skills
not because they are easy
but because they are hard

I am delighted to be here

06 Inhuman Man
Creation Date : January 2019
Finishing Date : August 2019

• Instruments : Sonic Cell, Roland D50, NordLead, DSI Rev2, Yamaha Motif, Moog Sub37; VST : Break tweaker, Omnisphere 2
• Samples : NA
• Music : Esynth
• Lyrics : Robert Burns – The Wounded Hare
• Vocal : VicomtiX

Anecdote : A song conceived by Esynth for his induction at the 'Burn's Night'. The version of the album has been processed by the hands of EdiptiX who disentangled it and re-build it completely. Only the introduction bells are the remains of intitial version.

Text
(Robert Burns « Wounded Hare »)
Inhuman man!
Curse on thy barb’rous art,
And blasted be thy murder-aiming eye;
May never pity soothe thee with a sigh,
Nor ever pleasure glad thy cruel heart.

Poor wanderer of the wood and field!
The bitter little that of life remains
No more the thickening brakes and verdant plains
To thee shall home, or food, or pastime yield.

Inhuman man
Inhuman man
Go live

Seek, mangled wretch, some place of wonted rest,
No more of rest, but now thy dying bed!
The sheltering rushes whistling o’er thy head,
The cold earth with thy bloody bosom prest.
Oft as by winding Nith, I, musing, wait
The sober eve, or hail the cheerful dawn;
I’ll miss thee sporting o’er the dewy lawn,
And curse the ruffian’s aim, and mourn thy hapless fate.

Inhuman man
Inhuman man
Go live

Go Liiiiiive

07 Anachord
Creation Date : February 2019
Finishing Date : unknown

• Instruments : DSI REv2, Yamaha EX7, Alesis Micron, ; VST : GrooveAgent 4, Cubase Sampler
• Samples : free vocal samples from Christophe Ghosthack
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

Anecdote : this track collides an unexplored simple idea from our first album and our desire to inspire ourselves from a track like Zoolook form.... (yes, it's him again).

08 Fragment I
Creation Date : March 2019
Finishing Date : January 2020

• Instruments : DSI REv2, Yamaha Motif XS; VST : Cubase
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

09 Between The Lines
Creation Date : February 2019
Finishing Date : January 2020

• Instruments : Moog Sub37, Waldorf Streichfett, DSI Rev2, Novation Mininova; VST : GrooveAgent 4, Retrologue, HALion 6, Creepy Piano free VST, Hypnotic Dance, DRMR
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

Anecdote : Inspired from a jam session (code name Live0022), this uncategorised track surfs between slackness of improvisation and the metronomic tempo.

10 Interval
Creation Date : March 2019
Finishing Date : unknown

• Instruments : Korg Z1, DSI Rev2; VST : GrooveAgent 4, Loopmash, Retrologue
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

Anecdote : the first track conceived by EdiptiX on the base of a predefined structure. The intervals are defined but, what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh, EdiptiX improvises in the time spaces...verse and chorus

11 Fragment II
Creation Date : March 2019
Finishing Date : January 2020

• Instruments : DSI REv2, Yamaha Motif XS; VST : Cubase
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

12 Optimism
Creation Date : March 2019
Finishing Date : unknown

• Instruments : DSI Rev2, Yamaha Motif XS, Soma Lyra 8, Roland D50, Korg Z1; VST : GrooveAgent 4, HALion 6
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : NA
• Vocal : NA

Anecdote : yet another improvisation from EdiptiX, the first demo was considered as the first deception of Esynth who showed an obvious pessimism. But he didn't give up and rearranged the whole thing. The next demo gave him hope again and we are now full of optimism.

13 I (part I, part II, part III)
Creation Date : January 2019
Finishing Date : December 2019

• Instruments : Moog Sub37, Novation MiniNova, DSI Rev2; VST : Loopmash, Groove Agent 4, Clock Free VST, DRMR, HALion Sonic, Stutter Edit, Creepy Piano free VST, Vocal Synth
• Samples : NA
• Music : EdiptiX
• Lyrics : VicomtiX
• Vocal : VicomtiX

Anecdote : Inspired from a jam session (code name Live0040) from which it incorporates some recordings, this track evolves in 3 parts symbolizing our existence in the universe as well as the existence of the universe itself.
Part 1 is the birth of the universe, even before we existed.
Part 2 is the period where we exist in the universe.
Part 3 follows the universe as we are no longer part of it...does the universe also have a finite existence?

Lyrics
There was a time
I wasn’t there

There is the time
I’m here

There will be a time
I won’t be anymore

And the universe keeps going on