Eternal Wanderers

The music style of Eternal Wanderers is something at the point of intersection of psychedelic rock, art-rock and various directions of electronic music (mainly traditional electronic music, and lately to a little extent electroacoustic experiment). The peculiarity of creative activity of EW is that the compositions performed at present have been accumulated for several years. That's why pieces differ enough from one another, from songs to long instrumental works, from rock guitar motives and rhythms to heavy keyboard-computer experiments.

The peculiarity of creative activity of EW is that the compositions performed at present have been accumulated for several years. That's why pieces differ enough from one another, from songs to long instrumental works, from rock guitar motives and rhythms to heavy keyboard-computer experiments. In some periods heavy and gloomy mood prevailed, and in some ones it was a very hard music. Lately among new pieces there have appeared many ballad songs. There is light in some pieces, and grain of sadness in others. And sometimes it is just a plunge into some other worlds...

EW don't aspire to follow any style or genre as well as the creative activity of concrete music collectives. Though the latter, no doubt, influences in one way or another. Various people said that in EW songs there was something from Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Dead Can Dance, and also mentioned names absolutely unknown to EW members. Really among the preferences of EW it is possible to name Pink Floyd, Steve Morse Band, Deep Purple, Yes, ELP, Bernd Kistenmacher, Solitaire, Roger Waters, Klaus Schulze (early works), Artemy Artemiev, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero.

The music of EW is not for relaxation, and certainly not for dance at all. EW don't aspire to aim at tastes of everyone, but at the same time their music is open for everyone who wishes and needs it.

Each piece is the reflection of fantasies of mind, or impression from the surrounding reality, or combination of both.

The basis of every composition is always some definite thought or state of mind. In course of time the prevailing thoughts and spirits changed, and therefore the main themes of EW creative activity changed also. But of course there is no any sharp distinction between the periods, and sometimes themes untouched for a span of time awake again.

In some periods the central theme of the EW pieces was the profound chaos of the human soul having learned by itself what is the Pink Floyd Wall, misunderstanding and rejection against which seldom arising feelings break, tormenting and frozen. The inner world of the one broken by the refinement of cruelty with which life sneers at his despair. Pictures of despondency and devastation of mind intermittent with echoes of suffered shocks...

Another theme of EW songs was the refracted with the prism of mind laws of society, a theme of survival of an individual under the severe pressure of this society, a theme of absurd world and the existance of the human being in this world. Sometimes it turned into half-fantastic stories combining real and unreal images.

Thoughts contained in songs are often turned to space, piercing absolute cold, crossed by thousands of energy streams and impersonating eternal wisdom...

In these latter days the tension, for a long time felt practically in all pieces, has passed, because with the lapse of time there came the internal peace and tranquillity, and just a grain of sadness has remained from the emotions of the past... And of course this fact has influenced the creative activity.

Generally, it is possible perhaps to say that the music of EW is about Joy and Sadness, Life and Death, about infinite Space, Eternity, Beauty of the human soul and distant stars, about marvellous worlds which passed away untimely, where reality and fantasy merge into a single whole...

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