Synchronicité musicale : Michael Scanlon et Sequentia Legenda

Quand la musique ouvre le dialogue :
rencontre avec Michael Scanlon

La musique et l’art créent parfois des synchronicités inattendues

Chers amis et auditeurs,

Michael Scanlon, auditeur passionné et écrivain londonien inspiré par la métaphysique, a découvert ma vision musicale tout récemment… et en quelques jours seulement, toutes mes compositions ont trouvé une place entière dans son univers intérieur.

De cette rencontre est née une conversation simple et authentique. Il a d’abord partagé ses impressions avec moi, puis posé trois questions auxquelles j’ai répondu avec ce qui vit en moi : mémoire, son et vibration du vivant.

Voici le fruit de ce dialogue cœur à cœur, que je vous invite à découvrir.

Si vous aussi ressentez l’envie de partager un moment d’échange autour de la musique, n’hésitez pas à me contacter — ce sera un immense plaisir pour moi.

Avec toute ma gratitude et ma lumière,
Laurent Schieber – Sequentia Legenda

 

MIKE SCANLON :
Chaque album de Sequentia Legenda est unique et irremplaçable

Je m’appelle Michael Scanlon et je vis à Londres. Je suis marié depuis trente-six ans et j’ai deux enfants adultes. Avant ma retraite, j’ai travaillé comme bibliothécaire dans des organismes de recherche et des services gouvernementaux. 

Je suis également auteur de plusieurs livres inspirés par la métaphysique, sous le nom de plume Michael Joseph Scanlon.

J’aime beaucoup la musique et je suis ravi que Bandcamp m’ait fait découvrir Sequentia Legenda. La musique de la Berlin School occupe une place essentielle dans mes écoutes, et je suis absolument enchanté par celle de Sequentia Legenda. 


SL : Qu’est-ce qui vous inspire le plus dans ma musique et quelles sensations ou émotions vous procure-t-elle ?
MS : Le meilleur de la Berlin School est probablement la musique rock la plus évocatrice parmi tous les genres. La musique de Sequentia Legenda s’inscrit pleinement dans cette catégorie, car elle est à la fois hypnotique et éthérée. La combinaison des synthétiseurs superposés et l’usage des séquenceurs créent une atmosphère qui dépasse la somme de ses parties. Chaque album de Sequentia Legenda est unique et irremplaçable à cet égard. Ils sont tous très ambiants, et pourtant d’une beauté profondément invitante.

LE PREMIER CD DE SEQUENTIA LEGENDA 
QUE J’AI ACHETÉ : BLUE DREAM
Lorsque j’ai entendu FLY OVER ME pour la première fois,
j’ai été captivé

SL : Y a-t-il des albums ou des morceaux particuliers de ma musique qui vous ont touché particulièrement, et pourquoi ?
MS : Le premier CD de Sequentia Legenda que j’ai acheté était BLUE DREAM. Quand j’ai entendu FLY OVER ME pour la première fois, j’ai été totalement captivé. Peu de temps après, ma collection de Sequentia Legenda est passée d’un seul CD à quatorze très rapidement. Aucun ne m’a déçu. En fait, j’étais étonné de constater que l’excellente qualité de BLUE DREAM se retrouvait dans toute la discographie de Sequentia Legenda, sans répétition ni redite. 

SL : Comment ressentez-vous la connexion entre la musique et le design visuel de mes albums — cette unité influence-t-elle votre écoute et vos émotions ?
MS : Pour moi, le packaging de la musique rock fait partie intégrante de son art. En conséquence, je ne fais pas de téléchargements. Les pochettes de Sequentia Legenda font partie intégrante de l’expérience globale. Je les adore toutes.
 

L’UNIVERS EST UNE SOURCE INFINIE D’INSPIRATION
Ma musique est un moyen de s’y mettre en résonance 

MS : Les étoiles et les galaxies vous inspirent évidemment, ainsi que votre musique. Croyez-vous qu’il y ait une cause à l’Univers, ou est-ce simplement arrivé ?
LS : L’Univers est une source infinie d’inspiration — c’est le Tout, le Grand Ensemble. Je ne crois pas que nous soyons, ou ayons jamais été, seuls. Tout est vibration, et la vibration est énergie — et l’énergie est vie.

Pour moi, l’Univers n’a pas “simplement apparu”. Il est l’expression d’une vaste intelligence, d’une conscience vivante dotée d’un amour inconditionnel, reliant tous les êtres et tous les mondes. Ma musique est un moyen d’entrer en résonance avec ce souffle cosmique, de traduire quelque chose qui nous dépasse, mais qui vibre et vit en chacun de nous.

MS : Utilisez-vous des synthés anciens dans votre musique ou préférez-vous les modernes ?
LS : Quand j’avais 16 ans, mon studio était installé dans le sous-sol de mes parents, et pour moi, c’était comme la caverne d’Ali Baba. Au cœur se trouvait le magnifique Korg PS-3200 modulaire, entouré du MS-20 et de son petit frère, le SQ-10. À ma gauche, j’avais l’Oberheim Duo Two Voice, et à ma droite le Multiman S et l’ARP Odyssey.

Avec l’arrivée du MIDI, les synthés numériques ont progressivement remplacé ces belles machines analogiques — des instruments comme le Roland JD800, le Waldorf Microwave ou le Korg DSS1.

Depuis plus de dix ans maintenant, je travaille exclusivement avec des synthés virtuels, comme la collection Arturia. Je m’y sens totalement à l’aise. Ils me permettent de redécouvrir des sensations que j’avais autrefois, tout en offrant liberté et fluidité dans le processus créatif.

Pour moi, le cœur passe toujours avant la technologie. La musique reste, par-dessus tout, un partage de cœur à cœur.

MS : Comment avez-vous trouvé le nom Sequentia Legenda ?
LS : J’avais initialement une longue liste de noms possibles, et au final, Sequentia Legenda est apparu comme une fusion de deux d’entre eux. Il y a aussi eu une belle synchronicité dans le fait que les initiales S et L sont les miennes.

Pour moi, ce nom reflète parfaitement l’esprit de ma vision musicale. Comme le séquenceur reste mon outil de composition préféré, “Sequentia” me semblait naturel. “Legenda” évoque la mémoire, le mystère et l’intemporalité.

Et peut-être que les légendes sont, en vérité, simplement des formes voilées de la réalité ?

À la fin de notre échange, Michael a formulé une demande très spécifique :
« Laurent, pourriez-vous un jour établir une chronologie claire de votre discographie ? Je crois que cela serait précieux pour nous, auditeurs, afin de suivre l’évolution de votre univers. »

J’ai trouvé cette suggestion à la fois attentionnée et pertinente, et je l’en remercie. Que ces repères servent de guide pour ceux qui souhaitent voyager à travers mes sons — pas à pas, album après album.

Chronologie de la discographie de Sequentia Legenda :

2025 — A RAY OF LIGHT (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

2024 — DECEM (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)
2024 — Echo of Vibrations (Digital Version, name your price)
2024 — GALACTIC CRYSTALS (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

2023 — Extended Intuition Into the Unknown (Version numérique)
2023 — Departure for a Celestial Voyage (Version numérique, fixez votre prix)
2023 — ALCYONE (CD Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

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

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

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

2019 — FIVE (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)
2019 — CODEX ON THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS (Version numérique)
2019 — THE LUNAR TRILOGY (Version numérique)
2019 — OVER THERE (CD Digipack & livret de 8 pages XL, Version numérique)

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

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

2016 — EXTENDED (Double CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

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

2014 — BLUE DREAM (CDr Digipack 3 volets, Version numérique)

 

 

            

Musical Synchronicity: Michael Scanlon and Sequentia Legenda

When music opens dialogue: 
meeting with Michael Scanlon

Music and art sometimes create unexpected synchronicities

Dear friends-listeners,

Michael Scanlon, a passionate listener and London-based writer inspired by metaphysics, discovered my musical vision only recently… and within a few days, all of my compositions had found a full place in his inner world.

From this encounter, a simple and authentic conversation was born. He first shared his impressions with me, then asked three questions to which I responded with what lives within me: memory, sound, and the vibration of the living.

Here is the fruit of this heart-to-heart dialogue, which I invite you to discover.

If you too feel the desire to share a moment of exchange centered around music, please do not hesitate to contact me — it will be my great pleasure.

With all my gratitude and light,
Laurent Schieber – Sequentia Legenda

 

MIKE SCANLON :
Every Sequentia Legenda album is unique 
and irreplaceable

My name is Michael Scanlon and I live in London. I have been married thirty six years and have two grown up children. Before I retired I worked as a librarian in research bodies and Government departments. 

I am also the author of several books inspired by metaphysics. My pen name is Michael Joseph Scanlon. 

I love music a lot and am so happy with Bandcamp for telling me about the music of Sequentia Legenda. Berlin School music is an essential part of my music listening and I am absolutely delighted to hear the music of Sequentia Legenda. 


SL: What inspires you most in my music, and what feelings or sensations does it evoke for you?
MS: The best of the Berlin School is probably the most evocative rock music of all the different genres. Sequentia Legenda’s music scores heavily in this regard, as it so mesmerising and ethereal. The combination of the layered synthesisers and the use of sequencers create an atmosphere that is greater than the sum of its parts. Every Sequentia Legenda album is unique and irreplaceable in this regard. They are all so ambient, yet so invitingly beautiful.

THE FIRST SEQUENTIA LEGENDA CD
I EVER BOUGHT WAS BLUE DREAM
When I heard FLY OVER ME for the first time I was transfixed 

SL: Are there albums or specific pieces of mine that have touched you particularly deeply, and why?
MS: The first Sequentia Legenda cd I ever bought was BLUE DREAM. When I heard FLY OVER ME for the first time I was transfixed. Indeed, not long after, my Sequentia Legenda collection went from one cd to fourteen very quickly. I was disappointed by none of them. In fact, I was astonished that the excellent quality of BLUE DREAM was matched by all of the rest of Sequentia Legenda’s discography, without repetition or rehashing. 

SL: How do you experience the connection between the music and the visual design of my albums—does this unity affect how you listen and feel the music?
MS: For me, the packaging of rock music is an essential part of its art. Accordingly, I don’t do downloads. Sequentia Legenda’s covers are an integral part of the whole Sequentia Legenda experience. I love them all.

 

THE UNIVERSE IS AN INFINITE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
My music is a way of coming into resonance 

MS: Stars and galaxies obviously inspire you and your music. Do you believe that there is a cause to the Universe, or did it just happen?
LS: The Universe is an infinite source of inspiration — it is the All, the Great Whole. I do not believe that we are, or have ever been, alone. Everything is vibration, and vibration is energy — and energy is life.

For me, the Universe did not “simply appear.” It is the expression of a vast intelligence, a living consciousness endowed with unconditional love, connecting all beings and all worlds. My music is a way of coming into resonance with that cosmic breath, of translating something that goes beyond us, yet vibrates and lives within each of us. 

MS: Do you use old synths in your music or do you prefer the modern ones?
LS: When I was 16, my studio was set up in my parents’ basement, and to me it felt like Ali Baba’s cave. At the heart of it stood the magnificent Korg PS-3200 modular, surrounded by the MS-20 and its little brother, the SQ-10. On my left I had the Oberheim Duo Two Voice, and on my right the Multiman S and the ARP Odyssey.

With the arrival of MIDI, digital synthesizers gradually replaced those beautiful analog machines — instruments such as the Roland JD800, the Waldorf Microwave or the Korg DSS1.

For more than ten years now, I have been working exclusively with virtual synthesizers, like the Arturia collection. I feel totally at ease with them. They allow me to rediscover sensations I once had, while offering freedom and fluidity in the creative process.

For me, the heart always comes before the technology. Music remains, above all else, a sharing from heart to heart. 

MS: How did you come up with the name Sequentia Legenda?
LS: I initially had a long list of possible names, and in the end Sequentia Legenda emerged as a blend of two of them. There was also a beautiful synchronicity in the fact that the initials S and L are my own.

To me, the name perfectly reflects the spirit of my musical vision. Since the sequencer is still my preferred tool for composition, “Sequentia” felt natural to me. “Legenda” evokes memory, mystery and timelessness.

And perhaps legends are, in truth, simply veiled forms of reality? 

At the end of our exchange, Michael 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 — 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)

 

 

            

ALCYONE under Paul Rijken’s spotlight

"ALCYONE is an album of absolute excellent
Berlin School electronic music
with great sequencing and wonderful soundsculptures.
This music is deep, uplifting and utterly beautiful."
Paul Rijkens (Reviewer for the Dutch magazine iO Pages)

Thanks to Paul Rijkens for this photo

ALCYONE under Paul Rijken’s spotlight
Topic: The album

Paul Rijkens: Alcyone comes out of the Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeolus and the wife of Ceyx. She drowned herself in grief when Ceyx died and was transformed into a kingfisher. She was also called Halcyone.

Where did your idea or inspiration come from to use Alcyone as concept for this album?

Sequentia Legenda: In fact, ALCYONE represents the Great Central Sun, which is the theme of my album. A year ago, ALCYONE came to me like a bolt from the blue, and I felt it was essential to express this energy, this elevation emanating from the Great Central Sun, musically. Everyone is free to choose whether or not to embrace it, everyone is free to do their own research and to be discerning, especially in these current times.

For me, it was natural and important to decode and transcribe what I perceived so that I could share and offer the best of myself, both humanly and musically. It was obvious to follow my heart, to share this fabulous energy, this luminous force, this vibrant joy, this infinite hope.

ALCYONE is all that 🙏☀️🙏


Track 1: Around The Great Central Sun
Paul: The sun is all. The sun is everything. Without the sun, earth and the humans cannot survive. It is one of your most joyful compositions, you state in the booklet.

How did you come with the idea of the sun for a track ?

Sequentia Legenda: It was the logical continuation of ALCYONE, I had to highlight this radiant and loving alignment, this incredible creative power literally breathed into me by the Great Central Sun. The more I progressed with this composition, the more the atmosphere of joy grew, much to my delight - it was quite indescribable, in fact. In the end, all I know is that, in my opinion, it's the 'happiest' track in my discography.

Around The Great Central Sun is a message of Peace, Hope and Love, an invitation to gravitate freely in an atmosphere bathed in a divine light and in a creative benevolence. It's a cosmic dance around this fabulous Great Central Sun for a spiritual elevation.


Track 2: The Ring Of Golden Light
Paul: Gold is one of the most precious and valuable materials in the world. Light of gold must also be very precious.

Did you feel surrounded by it when you composed this track?

Sequentia Legenda: I felt surrounded, guided and transcended by a gentle, benevolent emanation that exhaled my creativity – Gratitude🙏

The idea of this composition is to take the listener towards the ring of golden light of an ascending spiral to reach high and beneficial vibrations. The soundscape is a bit like a nebula bathed in a soft, regenerative light. Everyone is free to make up their own mind, to find their own path to exaltation.


Track 3: Bon Voyage
Paul: It means have a good journey or vacation.

Do you consider yourself being on a voyage yourself when you create
your music?

Sequentia Legenda: In a way, yes, there are similarities. When I'm composing, I'm living in my own world, disconnected from our reality so to speak, travelling in my own reality. Time no longer has a hold on me, it's a notion that disappears completely, giving way to a delightful timelessness conducive to creativity. With Bon Voyage, I hope listeners will be able to travel freely and serenely in their own reality.


Track 4: Love Feeds Love
Paul: A for Sequentia Legenda short track. The sequence is fantasic.

What means love to you? How do you make this?

Sequentia Legenda: Thank you Paul for that compliment. It's not really my habit to do short tracks and this is the shortest in my discography. I have to say that this composition literally "invited" itself! In fact, it was planned from the outset that ALCYONE would consist of three tracks, as almost all my albums do. Then, spontaneously, a pressing need arose to rework an initial part. It was a bit like an initiation experience, something that upset the schedule. This composition developed with disconcerting fluidity, as if to persuade me to incorporate this unexpected title. I was really excited by the result, so I decided to add a fourth track, "Love Feeds Love".

In the end, that's how I see Love, in sharing.

 

ALCYONE under Paul Rijken’s spotlight
Topic: Equipment

Paul Rijkens: I am very interested in synthesizers and everything around them. You use mostly software synths. Arturia has created brilliant software emulations of classic synths.

Why have you chosen for this and not for hardware?

Sequentia Legenda: I have to say that when I was between 16 and 21, in my parents' basement, I had a room full of analogue synthesizers, such as the Korg PS 3200, the ARP Odyssey and the Oberheim Two Voices, to name but a few.

Later, with the advent of the MIDI standard, I parted company with these for a large number of digital synths accompanied by Cubase software. Then, like many of us, there were changes in my life and for a while I only kept the Korg DSS1 and the Roland JD800.

Then, a little over ten years ago, I discovered virtual synths and really enjoyed composing with them. Finally, looking back, I've realised that before hardware and everything else: it's the heart that's most important in sharing with listeners. It's my experience, my feelings, of course. I think that my basic knowledge of subtractive synthesis, for example, allows me to approach VST technology with a certain ease and a very precise vision of what I want to highlight. I have to say that overall I'm satisfied.

ALCYONE under Paul Rijken’s spotlight
Topic: Live

Paul Rijkens: I would love to see you play live.

Is there a chance you will perform here in The Netherlands on the E-live of E-day festival?

Sequentia Legenda: Thank you, that's very kind of you. Performing live is something very special, it's a new adventure every time, both technically and on a human level. There's the meeting with the audience, that special contact that makes it a unique moment in itself.

I was lucky enough to be able to play live during 2019, accompanied by German drummer Tommy Betzler (who himself accompanied Klaus Schulze in the mid-80s) in France, Switzerland and Germany.
I have fond memories of that.

As far as future concerts are concerned, it's possible that I'll be able to perform in the Netherlands, and I'd be delighted to do so. Ron Boots and I have been in touch and we'll see what happens. Tommy would also be up for this new adventure on stage. I've got a few imperatives in my life at the moment which mean I can't give you any precise dates. In any case, if it's not possible this year, I hope it'll be next year.

Presentation: My name is Paul Rijkens.

I come from The Netherlands and live in the beautiful ancient inner city of Alkmaar, the city of cheese.

In daily life I work for the Ministry Of Justice. My hobby is music. I love The Beatles and am a volunteer in the Beatles Museum in Alkmaar. My biggest musical love is progressive rock, especially that with (lots of) keyboards in it. I also love electronic music and even tried to make it myself a long time ago. Sine many years I have a weakness for the so-called “Berlin School of electronic music” and that is one of the reasons that I feel so drawn to the music of Sequentia Legenda. Ever since the early eighties, I write about progressive rock and electronic music: I do interviews and write reviews of albums and concerts. In the old days I did that for magazines like Sonic Report, KLEM magazine, E-dition and SI Music Magazine, nowadays I write for the Dutch magazine iO Pages in which I am called the electronic music specialist. 

MY VISION FOR THE BERLIN SCHOOL IN 2023
A heart to heart sharing

I had the great pleasure to share with you my last opus, I will try here to reveal you some aspects from behind the scenes.

ALCYONE represents for me a beautiful adventure, rich in human, spiritual and musical experiences of course. It is a setting in light, the term is appropriate, on the continuum of my musical vision.

As you may know, my music is now tuned to the frequency of 432 Hz in order to offer the purest sound worlds possible. My goal with this new creation is to continue my heart-to-heart sharing, to infuse more and more serenity in order to help you better radiate your own wholeness.

I have to say that the composition phases have unfolded overall with a pleasant fluidity. Gratitude. I wanted through the various universes composing this album, in the structural form, in the color of the harmonies, in the choice of the timbres, to deliver a connection which is the most in adequacy with my feeling. I wished a sound matter the most favourable to dreams, which is at the same time rich and ethereal and comfortable to the listening. To lay down notes tinged with light that could evoke the freedom between the dimensions of a journey that could be relived each time and in a totally personal way.  

I hope that ALCYONE and its four sound universes will accompany you during your astral and immersive peregrinations, arousing in you for a long time beautiful and sweet emotions.

I wish you lots of listening pleasure.

ALCYONE

 

 

            

Three Astral Arches by Sequentia Legenda

Dear listeners,

I am pleased to announce that my new album "CELESTIAL" is being finalised. A new musical adventure is coming to fruition, where challenges, surprises and hardships had to be faced.

With this new opus, I tried to get out of my comfort zone a bit.
The album consists of three tracks: "Three Astral Arches", "Symphonic Dawn of the Stars" and "VOICES 55".

CELESTIAL
Three Astral Arches

The first track "Three Astral Arches" is almost finished.
It is a richly pigmented sound painting with a spiritual and mystical framework and atmosphere, created with the instrumental palette of analogue synths.

With a duration of 23:23, the three parts "Yasna", "Feldi" and "Jerrish" follow one another, each delivering their own atmospheres to dress this sound painting with a mystical patina and reinforcing the resonance of the harmonic tones.

The introduction is rather confusing – I'll leave you with the surprise – it is built with effects from the AKS and ARP Odyssey mainly. The chords of the string instruments and the choirs unfold, gradually giving way to the different sequences that make up the rhythmic framework. The cymbals then reinforce the tempo. The velvety string ensembles of the famous Solina emerge in the distance to distil melodic lines here and there supported by subtle reverberation. The climax is reached with the addition of further drum elements to make way for the ethereal and spiritual finale consisting of choirs, effects, and a lulling of various crystalline sequences.

 

CELESTIAL
Entrance Into New Horizon

Dear listeners,

I am very pleased to announce that the work on my next opus "CELESTIAL" is progressing in a positive way, both musically and in terms of layout, giving me pleasure and satisfaction. The result corresponds to the idea that had germinated a few months earlier in my mind, it is the reflection of what I wish to communicate emotionally and artistically.
A new experience, a new sharing, that I will have the pleasure of presenting and bringing to light on September 21, 2021, the date of the album's release.

"CELESTIAL" is a symbiosis of different mythical instruments, all of them coming from the analogue era, such as the EMS Synthi AKS, the Moog modular, the ARP Odyssey, to name but a few. It's true that at the moment I use almost only virtual instruments, but these are carefully selected to match the analogue sound grain so typical of the mid-70s. I would also like to add that it is the turn of the fabulous Korg PS-3300 modular to join the set of analogue synthesizers. This is a first. This modular offers a wide sound palette and a great harmonic density: a "big" sound. I had a lot of fun working with this remarkable and truly unique instrument. I would like to add that when I was between 18 and 20 years old, I bought the Korg PS-3200 the "little brother" of the PS-3300 modular. I would like to take this opportunity to say a BIG thank you again to my father who helped me financially. I can invite you to discover a little more about the history of the encounter between the PS-3200 and myself by reading the blog article.