EGOHEART 1999


Chapter one of our "Cosmic Trilogy," this was also the first album by BIOnighT. Of course this work is very important for us, since it was the beginning of our little adventure...

All tracks were written, arranged, and performed by Sbrizzi FaBIO and Mac in 1999.

Released by SynG@te
1) EGOHEART (8.40)
Based on a hypnotic eight-step bass sequence, this song evolves intensely to a dramatic climax and then brings the listener to a pensive mood.
2) TECHNOFLIGHT (RMX of TECHNOFLY) - 6.45
Going against the unwritten rule that wants the remix to be the dance version of a song, this RMX is instead a "traditional" version of the dance track that closes the album.
3) TIMEGOD - 9.02
Time moving inside a golden dome.
4) CAMPOALTO - 6.12
This song was created in the meditative atmosphere of a mountain church and reflects the quiet depth of the emotions such a place conveys.
5) BIONIGHT - 17.34
This is the first piece the duo composed; they mixed their previous individual experiences and become a single musical entity thanks to the long work done on this track, which was like a voyage for the authors as it is now for the listeners. This suite was named after the duo, and vice versa.
6) TECHNOFLY - 6.12
This song was originally written for a techno music contest, even if it does not quite fall into the genre's standards and cliches. Having been composed with a precise goal in mind, it is somewhat different than the rest of the tracks, but it felt right to include it in the album for completeness' sake.
Further notes...

Several years have passed since we wrote the above notes, and at one point I felt something more could be added to those few lines in order to share with our listeners the history of these tracks, so here we go:

Egoheart was written and recorded partly in the BIOlofT (the studio where we write our music and record the MIDI data) and partly at Synthuary (the studio where we mix and record the material), and it was the last song we wrote for this album. We almost didn't start it, as that night we were both very tired and didn't feel like playing; after a couple of hours we decided to give it a try anyway, so we went to the BIOlofT and - after fumbling around for a while - came up with the bass sequence. We also almost didn't finish it, as it arrived just before our summer break and we had already put all of our energy into the rest of the album and didn't feel like going on working. We had to try to convince each other to put some more effort into it, and fortunately we managed to. This track could have been lost forever, both because it might have not been started at all and because it might have not been finished... We are glad it's here now.

Technoflight was simply something I came up with while mixing the album because I felt there was another facet to Technofly other than the techno thing, so I just eliminated all the rythmic parts and played the new bass and drums parts.

Timegod started as a techno/dance sequence and then evolved into what it is now; unfortunately, no recording of that first version survived.

We wrote the main structure for Campoalto in a little church a summer afternoon after getting the permission to take our gear into it from the custodian, who stayed there with his nephew to see us play. So far, that's the only song we've written outside the BIOlofT.

Bionight, too, started out as a techno sequence to evolve later into the suite it is now. It took us over three months to complete it.

Technofly was written for a techno contest, but the funny thing is that FaBIO had no idea what techno music was, he just had never heard any song of that kind - when he showed me the form to fill in for the contest he actually thought that the word "techno" stood for "electronic"! So we could only start working on the song after a crash course, but he did a good job nevertheless. The pleasant theme you can hear in this track is taken from one of his solo tracks featured in his retrospective solo album "Naif Music"; if you have this CD, just go to min. 3.24 of the third track (Tomtom), and there it is.

Mac of BIOnighT
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