To My Mother, a Bearer of Light

✨ Departure for a Celestial Voyage – Extended Version
In loving tribute to my Mother, a Bearer of Light

Dear friends-listeners,

November 4, 2025 marks three years since my Mother’s departure into the Light.

This Extended version of Departure for a Celestial Voyage is both an intimate and universal homage — a musical offering dedicated to her soul and to all those who have journeyed to the celestial realms.

These extra 3 minutes and 33 seconds are not just an added length of sound — they are a cosmic breath, a sacred space for reflection and communion.

Through them, I wished to let the music rise gently, like a breath of love and gratitude, a radiant prayer ascending into infinity.

"Nothing can extinguish this sacred bond between souls,
for it is woven from eternity.
Music, vibrations, and energy flow and expand
within the light and within love."

Laurent Schieber – Sequentia Legenda
October 28, 2025

 

TO MY MOTHER, A BEARER OF LIGHT
His presence shines far beyond

There are beings whose presence shines far beyond time itself.

My mother was one of those awakened souls — curious, attentive to beauty in all its forms, and moved by its simplest expressions. Music, in particular, was part of that awakening.

It was she who enrolled me, when I was about eight years old, in accordion lessons. But the heaviness of the instrument, and especially the rigidity of solfeggio, quickly discouraged me. Yet, without knowing it, she had just opened the first door to my musical universe.

A few years later, on November 3rd, 1978, she went to the Temple Saint-Étienne in Mulhouse to attend a Klaus Schulze concert (The “X.” Tour). She bought the timeless, mythical vinyl Mirage, unaware that she was handing me the key to a universe that would forever transform my life. That record was a revelation — a true thunderbolt, the musical spark that ignited it all. That precise moment, that suspended instant, awakened in me the calling of synthesizers, the Berlin School… and beyond that, the call of a sonic and spiritual mission.

It was also she who accompanied me to the store "Aux Guitares" in Mulhouse, where I learned about analog synthesis and how to handle instruments like the Minimoog.

IT WAS SHE WHO DROVE ME TO BELFORT
Klaus Schulze’s concert on February 5th, 1983 

And it was she who drove me to Belfort so that I could attend Klaus Schulze’s concert on February 5th, 1983. At the end of the show, Klaus was still there — adjusting his synths, exchanging words with the few who lingered. Too shy, I couldn’t utter a single word. My mother came back from Mulhouse to pick me up. On the way home, filled with excitement, I confessed to her how disappointed I was for not daring to speak to the man whose music had so deeply moved my soul.

Later, I wrote Klaus a letter — never knowing if he ever read it.

 

LONG IMPROVISATION SESSIONS IN MY LITTLE STUDIO
in my parents’ basement, surrounded by my “babies” 

I also remember writing a passionate message on the bathroom mirror, using one of her lipsticks, praising the Polymoog, that magical instrument Klaus owned — the one I dreamed of having.

I still recall those long improvisation sessions in my little studio, in my parents’ basement, surrounded by my “babies”:

the Korg PS-3200, the MS-20 with its SQ-10 sequencer, the ARP Odyssey (another synth Klaus used), the Oberheim Two Voices, the Crumar Multiman-S, and many others…

Each time she came downstairs to call me for dinner, I would startle — I was already floating in another world, headphones on.

More recently, when Sequentia Legenda began to shine publicly, I would give her the first versions of my albums. She kept them carefully, listened attentively, and shared her thoughts — always kind, often insightful.

I believe she was proud of me — of my perseverance, my path, and my fidelity to who I am. Besides music, we often talked about deep and spiritual matters.

She would often say: “If only you weren’t so sensitive!”

But I believe, deep down, that was her way of protecting me. She too was a profoundly sensitive soul.

At the end of her life, lying in her hospital bed, when she could hardly speak, we were all gathered around her. She whispered a few words. My father, leaning close, turned to me and said:

“Mom is asking if you will continue with your music.”

I reassured her, asked her to hold on, and told her that a double album was about to be released — The Berlin School Box — dedicated to her and to my father.

Fate decided otherwise: she left a few days later, journeying to another dimension 🙏

🌠 Epilogue – The Song of Souls

Even now, when my hands rest upon the keyboards and the first notes ascend, I feel her presence — gentle, benevolent, and serene.

Every vibration carries a trace of her gaze, her tenderness, her faith in me.

My music is no longer mine alone: it is the living breath of what she passed on to me — that light of love, that childlike wonder for the world, that trust in the unseen paths of existence.

Mother, you who opened the way, you who taught me to listen to the whisper of the infinite, I keep walking, creating, and resonating — to honor your light and let it shine ever brighter.

And sometimes, when I close my eyes, in the stillness between two notes,

I can hear you softly say:

“Continue, my son… music is your offering to the heavens.”

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During our last conversation, Michael Scanlon made a very specific request: “Laurent, could you one day put together a clear chronology of your discography? I believe it would be valuable for us listeners, to follow the evolution of your universe.”

I found this suggestion both thoughtful and relevant, and I am grateful for it. May these milestones serve as a guide for those who wish to journey through my sounds — step by step, album after album.

Chronology of Sequentia Legenda’s Discography:

2025 — CHILDREN OF THE SOLAR LIGHT – Revisited version (Digital Version, name your price)
2025 — A RAY OF LIGHT (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2024 — DECEM (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)
2024 — Echo of Vibrations (Digital Version, name your price)
2024 — GALACTIC CRYSTALS (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2023 — Extended Intuition Into the Unknown (Digital Version)
2023 — Departure for a Celestial Voyage (Digital Version, name your price)
2023 — ALCYONE (CD Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2022 — The 432 Hz Berlin School Box (Double CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)
2022 — ANNO 1880 - Variations on the finale of ELEVATION (Digital Version)
2022 — RESONANCES (CD Digipack, Digital Version)
2022 — ELEVATION [Portal Version 2022] (Digital Version)

2021 — Luminosa Veritas [Xmas 2021 Version] (Digital Version, name your price)
2021 — HEAVENLY RESONANCE (Happy Birthday Version) (Digital Version, name your price)
2021 — CELESTIAL (CDr Digipack, Digital Version)
2021 — THE RETURN (Long Version) (Digital Version)
2021 — Around the Second Moon – Floating Days Edition (Digital Version)
2021 — Deep Sequences [Grenzwellen Version] (Digital Version)
2021 — Five Minutes Around the Second Moon (Digital Version, name your price)

2020 — VOICES 55 [EXCLUSIVE Version] (Digital Version)
2020 — BEYOND THE STARS (CD Digipack, Digital Version)
2020 — CIRCUMNAVIGATION [Study Version] (Digital Version)
2020 — Valentins Traum Exclusive Version (Digital Version)

2019 — FIVE (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)
2019 — CODEX ON THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS (Digital Version)
2019 — THE LUNAR TRILOGY (Digital Version)
2019 — OVER THERE (CD Digipack & 8 page XL Booklet, Digital Version)

2018 — SOLITUDES LUNAIRES [XMas 2018 Version] (Digital Version)
2018 — RENAISSANCE (CD Digipack, Digital Version)
2018 — MIND LAKE [experimental version] (Digital Version)

2017 — THE RETURN experimental version (Digital Version)
2017 — Out of the Silence - Collaboration version (Digital Version)
2017 — ETHEREAL (CDr Digipack, Digital Version)
2017 — Out of the Silence - Exclusive version (Digital Version)

2016 — EXTENDED (Double CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2015 — AMIRA (CDr Digifile, Digital Version)
2015 — AU REVOIR (Digital Version)
2015 — VIBRATIONS - Blood Moon exclusive version (Digital Version)

2014 — BLUE DREAM (CDr Digipack 3 flaps, Digital Version)