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The Mystery Of The Cosmic Sorrow

by Eternal Wanderers

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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) It took me some time to get into this music - but in the meantime, I adore it. "Eternal Wanderes" became one of my most favorite prog bands. The 90-minute double album "The Mystery Of The Cosmic Sorrow" shows the Kanevskaya sisters at their best again. Guitar wizard Tatyana wrote most of the tracks, (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10), keyboard virtuoso Elena three of them (3, 4, 5), and bassist Dmitry Shtatov, who excels on the fretless bass, debuts as a composer with the epic "The End Of The Satellite Age". Favorite track: Gamma Waves.
Stéphane Gallay
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Stéphane Gallay Pour un concept album, je dois avouer que Eternal Wanderers ont produit ici un joli résultat. S’il manque deux trois-trucs, comme un thème, il est plutôt solide et cohérent. Je dirais cependant que si c’est une belle source d’inspiration musicale pour des rôlistes amateurs de science-fiction, il est quand même très typé prog et, de fait, je ne recommanderais pas forcément à des néophytes en la matière.

Favorite track: The End Of The Satellite Age.
pierre nory
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pierre nory The end of the satellite age is a master piece. It's like a epic movie soundtrack. Just great! Favorite track: The End Of The Satellite Age.
Garents DroSongs
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Garents DroSongs I bought this album yesterday, and have only played it a few times. But I like it a lot, and I expect to check their earlier albums when I have the time. Favorite track: Following A Neutrino's Flight.
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1.
Welcome into the world Where reality and fantasy merge into a single whole, Where solitude is all-conquering, joy is enormous And pain has no boundaries. Come and reveal the mystery of the cosmic sorrow. But having once done it Your sanity will never return back to you.
2.
3.
Methane Rain 08:18
On the distant moon severe and strange Equinox will mark the seasons’ change, Weird storms will stir the frigid air, Great discharge will play with cosmic glare As dense clouds thicken over the deserted plain Bursting in perfect wonder of the methane rain. Wild wind’s frantic wailings pierce dark haze, Thunderbolts resound through vast expanse, Dried-up lakes and rivers quench their thirst, But not one of a stranger whose way is lost After long years of wandering in the arid plain Only sharing his tears of sorrow with the methane rain. Clouds will disperse, the air turn still, Lifeless lakes and rivers will refill Spring will pass and then fifteen long years Desert will be left to crave for tears To shed from the darkened heavens on the arid plain, Pouring grief and subconscious sorrow with the methane rain.
4.
Gamma Waves 05:30
5.
Why do Heavens dispose so Of the human beings’ lives, Mark some people’s eyes with grain of pain? Deep tranquility inside, Sudden joy and even happiness Are transient — they come and pass again. Only inside your heart The wind howls in agony, A grim voice whispers through the wind A sentence that is a cross to bear for eternity. What are you waiting for? What are you hoping for? What are you searching for? Don’t you realize That you are born to suffer? And the flame begins to scorch, The soul aches from icy water, Just in thoughts you ask for someone’s help. Deep repentance burns you down, Life becomes so bitter, wearing you out When the story comes to end. Only inside your heart The wind howls in agony, A grim voice whispers through the wind A sentence that is a cross to bear for eternity. What are you waiting for? What are you hoping for? What are you searching for? What are you striving for When you are born to suffer? What are you waiting for? What are you hoping for? What are you searching for? Can’t you realize That you are born to suffer? The sun grows dim in heaven’s dome, You’ll cry for years irretrievably gone. Just sullen mountains and northern woods Will bless your sorrow and solitude Of the one who is born to suffer…
6.
Silent World 08:50
I close my eyes, and see the sky, Satellites keep passing by, Stars moving ‘round from east to west, The Milky Way is lost behind the mountain crest. Silence’s shrouded all the land, Silence’s throbbing inside my head. The wisps of wind are icy cold, And I get lost in the silent world. The life’s so transient and frail, One day there’ll come the finish of the tale, This bustle tomorrow may end, You’ll even have no time to understand. I woke up, the sky is lost, The sun looms in grey smoke like a ghost, Playground’s empty, highway’s still, Before my eyes the misty vision starts to reel. Silence’s shrouded all the land, Silence’s throbbing inside my head. The place where sounds of life had rolled Has turned into the silent world.
7.
It’s the place that no one has seen Surrounded with mountains Steep and high rising up to the sky Where of the life there is no sign. And when it dews with the rise of dawn In the rest of the living world Since distant centuries here the land Is always barren, morose and sad… Refrain. Nobody has ever seen This valley of oblivion Lost in the mountains Which cold minds Have erected since the ancient times… So many souls lived among us Of whom there was such a fuss, But their star has set once and for all And passed out of mind of ungrateful world All their sufferings and all their light They gave not asking a refund. Some of them are still alive But are defunct in the world’s eye… Refrain. Lost inside this lifeless place They suffer their loneliness Expecting not one day to find The one who’d lift the weight off their mind, Who’d crash the fetters, who’d give the hand To release at least one of them And only silence remains their mate Eternally sharing their fate… Refrain.
8.
Following a neutrino’s flight My spirit will travel along Faster than the speed of light In micro- and macro world Passing through matter unnoticed Streaming in cosmic rays Unaffected by arising disturbances Undetected by any piercing gaze. Bursting away from the core Of supernova explosion Into the intergalactic void Doomed to perpetual motion. To the distances beyond reckoning, Perceiving the new knowing To the places of joy inexpressible, And of sorrow inconceivable.
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10.
Space 06:02
Space is my friend, Space is my passion, In space there’s no end And no direction, Space is my life, Space is my home, To space I aspire, To space I belong. In space are my thoughts, In space is my heart, I’ve given it my soul, I’m always its part. In space I am free, Space is my castle, Perfectly dark And perfectly marvellous. Space does not reject me, Takes me with all my drawbacks, Forgiving me all sins And listening to my sorrows, Sharing my joy, Telling the truth Of the life’s goals, The essence of death. In space there’s no death, Space is my grave, In space there’s no dirt, In space I am safe. Space is wise, Space is fair, I hear the call of the stars And I aspire there, And I aspire there…

about

The Mystery Of The Cosmic Sorrow is a double CD. It contains 10 compositions with total time 90 minutes. The album is a result of the 5-years endeavor, and it incarnates the fundamental idea of EW’s creative activity. The music style of the album is the mix of art-psychedelic rock, electronics and sympho-electronic experiment.

And so,
Welcome into the world
Where reality and fantasy merge into a single whole,
Where solitude is all-conquering, joy is enormous,
And pain has no boundaries.
Come, and reveal the mystery of the cosmic sorrow.
But having once done it,
Your sanity will never return back to you.

credits

released March 1, 2016

Elena Kanevskaya: vocals, keyboards, samplers
Tatyana Kanevskaya: guitars, charango, backing vocals, samplers
Dmitry Shtatnov: bass, backing vocals, analog synths and effects
Sergey Rogulya: drums, percussion

Saxophone for “Methane Rain”, “Space”: Alisher Zvid

Mixed at Propeller Sound Studio, Moscow by Yury Nikolaev
Except “Message From Space” mixed by Elena Kanevskaya, “Following A Neutrino’s
Flight” and “The End Of The Satellite Age” mixed by Dmitry Shtatnov

Mastered by Fergal Davis

Photo by Vladimir Volkov

Produced by Elena Kanevskaya, Tatyana Kanevskaya and Dmitry Shtatnov

Cover art by Natalia Arustamova

With thanks to: Stanislav Smirnov, Ray Wilson, Mikhail Kanevsky, Andrey Kosyrev

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