InFecTeD_gOa Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 PSYGASUS From Here To Eternity ----- ----- ----- ----- Psygasus is Belgian group formed by Bjorn Vanbrant, Brent Vanneste, Tine Ottevaere & Amala Isenbaert. They released in February 2011 a fabulous album ''From Here To Eternity'' mixing Hindu traditional instruments, electric guitar, saxophone, djembe, vocals and ethnic music. Each piece makes us a different unknown destination. Imagine a long corridor of 8 doors carefully closed just waiting to be opened by curious minds. This work hides captivating and engaging music, for a trip away in our dreams. ---------- ----- ----- 1° Shoti Deva - [05'53''] In the first track, once crossed the threshold, the door closes for a rainy ride through a rainforest. The bass are deep, tinkling percussion in our minds we cause sensory pleasant tingling throughout the body. The rhythm awaken in us the urge to take off our shoes and move freely, barefoot on the damp moss and to feel breathe the bark of trees, the friction of the grass and the crackling of branches. At 4'25'' the track like downtempo-style offers us a great trip by varying the bass giving it a more intimate feel. Relaxing and makes light. -----2° De Hemel Van Bierut - [06'36''] The second door plunges us into a environment dancefloor with a faster rhythm and a bass more purring. The intro is disturbing with a dark pad, but that fades gradually with the song by a distraught woman. She seems to invoke a divine force in trying to reach heaven through his prayers. His voice comes to mix with tribal percussion touching our skin. At 2'24'' kick appeared causing thus nods, as if to soak up its rhythm. But it's at 4'04'' that the track takes a new dimension on a piercing melody that touches our soul. A melody shivering that we injected into our veins all Eastern sensibilities. Epic! ----- 3° Twist Your Fingernail - [10'37''] We are witnessing the start floating. The frail female voice merges with angelic pad. This atmospheric ambience that lifts us by an invisibleand spiritual path, leads us into a air and magical world where land and sky seem to merge. A decorative angel wings are emerging all around us as to protect us. At 2'20'' Hindu tempo quiet make us descending to earth in various parts of the country. Emerges before us an authentic landscape Kanjira, tablâ, tamak, katta, dandâ who add up to resonate in our heads, we place aboard one of those old overcrowded diesel trains where passengers and goods meet. Through the window of WDM-2, we contemplate Bollywood sets parading before us. The melody is soothing and fits perfectly for this imaginary trip. ----- 4° Marching Into a Dream - [08'26''] A nice and long intro is amplified in the manner of a rise up. Chimes, laser, percussion and flute give us a look Asian. But the arrival of the Sitar at 1'17'' disrupts our entire perception which seemed to be obvious. Hardly time to interpret these new sounds that everything follows with kick at 1'55'' ant the melody at 3'24'' makes us think Khetzal [Corolle - 2005]. This sound, to the appearance of a sitar improved, make us achieve acoustic peaks. It's beautiful and intoxicating as a hypnotic spiral. To 5'45'' inspirations Israeli group Infected Mushroom is felt with the addition of lyricism, giving a spicy flavor to this delicious track. A killer! ----- 5° Lying Is The Truth His Fault - [08'08''] The fifth door opens and lets out a track quite different from other sometimes melancholy tone evoked at 1'20'' and the rhythm quite repetitive. Melodies are almost non-existent, only that the intro is repeated. This composition is a minimum, but we let ourselves very easily surprised by the originality of the sounds that move us in particular at 6'01'' and at 6'57'' with a final ''clubbing'' (trance) but cleverly orchestrated by superimposing the effect: trigger/gate, pad & vocalizations for a surprising result. The piece ends with a gentle melody that recalls nursery rhymes that whisper our mother before going to bed. Great twists! ----- 6° Samsara - [08'31''] A perfect track to wake up.The first 12 seconds are inspired by the album [Eternity Code - 2001] by ASURA with light and delicate introductions like a feather that arises with delicacy and elegance of a small streams.. The hiss of the alarm make us glimpse through our eyes still dazed the first rays of the sun. At 1'24'' a melody repeatedly appears similar to a buzzer that we cursed when it starts. It is the link that connects us to the reality of life: people - traffic - pollution - stress - job - monotony ... Mushi vocalizations (with gate effects modulated with the cutoff) and the ambient / psy rhythm hide this recurrence. A great way to get lost in our dreams. ----- 7° Cosmic Chaos - [07'38''] The seventh song starts strong with a nervous rhythm and atmosphere dark psy. The fx swarm around by appearing randomly and bassline penetrates the epidermis to reach our soul. So deep!! At 1'23'' the shadow of Aizen & Duvdev still been there with glaucous piano notes, and the use of children's sing-along vocals. This strange world plunge us into dark storybook. A larger and dusty book that usually found hidden in a drawer. A rare edition, which contains stories of magical forests, fairies, trolls, evil trees, army of mushrooms and other creatures as terrifying as fantastic. A masterpiece! ----- 8° From Here To Eternity - [16'51''] The last track is a journey into our own subconscious. The intro reminds me of some record label artists as Ultimae ASURA ou AES DANA, still soaring and heavenly. In the first part, We dozed, in the vast floating world, looking for least memory buried in our past. A voice, a form, a face, a smile, an event ... everything seems so far away and inaccessible. The vision is blurred but the atmosphere is soft and pastel-painted. While in the second half, there is an Indian sorcerer who seems to prepare a religious ritual to the beat of the drum on the plains of the Grand Canyon. At the same time we advance in the track, rhythm wants more and more intense and persistent as to announce the approach of nirvana. It will wait until 13'03'' to exalt our delight on a variation of the bass. It's short but so deep that this passage is there to warn us that life is fragile, that the good times are fleeting and that we need to know enjoy them. Probably a piece inspired by the tragic and painful loss of Thobias Vanbrabant [RIP]. Beautiful tribute! ----- This is a master piece essential for your collection, so if you have 73 minutes of your life to devote to this album, do it with your eyes closed! Listen to this to judge yourself and tell you in a corner of your head ... SHIT!, I missed that! However, if there was more stock, seek the label Ganja Tree Records to reprint it, or download it on http://www.beatspace.com/ ----- This album can be heard in its entirety here: http://beatspace.ban...njatree-records ----- ----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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