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Story of an encounter that changes everything

 

The album ‘true love’, foundation stone of K-Syndrom’s project, tells a simple story. A person faces a truth he/she was never prepared for. This event, which he/she is the powerless witness, will change his/her perception of life, and bring him/her slowly to break away from all he/she believed in. An infernal journey and a slow mental fall then begin. This story, due to the last track, as an open ending. As there is never one truth, the conclusion is left to the interpretation of the listeners of the album.

Each pieces of the album echoes a key step in the inner quest of a human being whose past life has no meaning anymore.

 

Temporal aspects

 

Time is never defined, all the tracks instead focus on the psychological and emotional state of a person at various key times in an inner journey. All these moments can be spaced in several days, months or years.

 

Inspirations and influences

 

Based on stories met over time, the album has some ‘existentialists’ accents, and was particularly influenced by a novel from Albert Camus, ‘The Fall’. If the influence of this novel was not the inspiration for writing, in retrospect, similarities appeared. For example, the opening track ‘Fallen’, but also more generally all the themes addressed in the album are very similar to those in Albert Camus’ novel. If the two stories are not developed in the same ways, the purposes themselves are very close: guilt, questioning, retrenchment, self-destruction, … Both tell the loss of a part of innocence, a part of humanity, that each protagonists dream to retrieve, while the means to achieve it are  impossible.

 

The main phases of the album:

 

• Clash (Fallen)
• Denial (DeKoneKtion, Kokoon)
• Crisis (True Love, Medikation, KaKoPhOnY)
• Hope (Other Half)
• The Epilogue (Dead End, Katharsis)

 

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