Epic Church - Highborn Spirit (2015) - Track by Track

CYBER10 presents the new album of Epic Church, which had the first release in 2010 named "Epic Church", the second in 2013 named "The Genevan Psalter" and now the project comes with "Highborn Spirit", an album that shows again the synthpop/electro-rock face of Epic Church, at the same time keeping its medieval-electro typical style. Emerson Olaf gives more details of this release in our "Track By Track" session, enjoy!

Epic Church - Highborn Spirit (2015)

9 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:46

Playlist length: 34 minutes 2 seconds 

Playlist files:

1. Epic Church - Benedicamus Domino (3:00)

2. Epic Church - Memories And Dreams (5:16)

3. Epic Church - Counter-Revolutionary (3:24)

4. Epic Church - Belle Qui Tiens Ma Vie (Thoinot Arbeau) (4:41)

5. Epic Church - Endlessly (4:07)

6. Epic Church - Strike The Viol (Henry Purcell) (2:35)

7. Epic Church - Conquest (4:40)

8. Epic Church - Your Heart (Inverno) (3:04)

9. Epic Church - Voyage Through Space And Time (3:15)

Artist: Epic Church

Links: Bandcamp

Album Name: Highborn Spirit

Date of Release: March 29, 2015

Genre: Electronic

Label: CYBER10

Language: English, French, Portuguese

Influences: Depeche Mode, Medieval Music, Apoptygma Berzerk, Eurotrance

Cover Art: Taken by the Romantic artist Anton Melbye, the art is named "Ships at the Sea" (1867)

Other details: The album was produced with very simple equipments and no pitch software were used for voices or back vocals, which were all recorded by Emerson Olaf. Voices or choir samples neither were used.

Artist Comments: "I consider this a simple album technically saying, but an album full of ideas replete with applied philosophy coming from a view of the world which take its roots on traditionalist conservatism. Regarding genre and style, the general result of Epic Church if one mix up all its songs would be a kind of medieval Depeche Mode in an Euro-Mix. The project might be placed on Synthpop or even Electro-Rock, maybe the so called Futurepop and there is still a less used tag named Medieval-Electro in which we would fit. Highborn Spirit is clearly an escape from the liberal modern world, a return to old values, at the same time not denying technology, because if we did so, we wouldn't be here on internet publishing electronic music."


Track 01: Benedicamus Domino
Composer: Anonymous (medieval)
Style: Medieval-Electro

Lyrics: Instrumental

Track 02: Memories and Dreams
Composer: Emerson Olaf
Style: Electro Rock

Lyrics: 

Would the dreamer in you 

Be proud of what you've done, 

Be proud of what you are today? 

Treasures of yesterday buried too deep

The real essence is now lost

-Chorus-

Memories, a reviving of the past, getting back to golden times

Remembrances of dreams to save us from despair

Memories and dreams

Welcome to a rotten world

Where vanity is the key

Where selfishness is the main rule

Empty minds, liberals

Heading to destruction

An inevitable collapse

Take us back to a world

Where values build a noble man

A light for tomorrow

Track 03: Counter-Revolutionary
Composer: Emerson Olaf
Style: Electro Rock

Lyrics: 

All we say

All we do

Makes us what we are

A better choice

The hardest move

You have to sacrifice

The modern beast

Of selfishness

Lies and says you're free

But deep inside

You really know

The way you have to be

-Chorus-

All feelings in your heart

All memories that you've got

The gift you must hold dear

The existence 

Of your soul

Trials to

Be alive

To fly against the wind

It is hard

To keep the fight

Opposite the world

Material thoughts

To break the faith

You ought to resist

The Truth is there for you

You know it

Track 04: Belle Qui Tiens Ma Vie
Composer: Thoinot Arbeau
Style: Medieval-Electro

Lyrics: (only the first verse of the original)

Belle qui tiens ma vie

Captive dans tes yeusse,

Qui m'as l’âme ravie

D'un sourire gracieusse,

Viens tôt me secourir

Ou me faudra mourir.(bis)

Track 05: Endlessly
Composer: Emerson Olaf
Style: Gothic Synthpop

Lyrics: 

The World,

You feel

That you are set apart

nothing can heal

nothing satisfies

Your hopes

Your thoughts

Are always far away 

Misplaced

Mistakes

All I see

-Chorus-

Endlessly

I will be

So distant in a dream

I might see

I might find

The destiny of my life

Then I'll raise

Then I'll feel

The joy of something new

It always

Will be with me

The fear

Has come

When solitude comes takes its place

The time you wish

You were taken away

There is no way

to adapt yourself to this world

believe, preserve your soul

Track 06: Strike The Viol
Composer: Henry Purcell
Style: Medieval-Electro

Lyrics: Instrumental

Track 07: Conquest
Composer: Emerson Olaf
Style: Electro Rock

Lyrics: 

And then comes the invitation 

Which would change his life forever

Invited to a journey to a new world

An enormous pain he felt while looking to his daughter's eyes

And he kissed his wife goodbye

-Chorus-

Brave men across the sea

For the glory of the nation

By the grace of God

We shall conquer the world

Countless days at the sea

Days of chants and fellowship

Days of fights and praying on his knees

From afar is seen a piece of land in green

Is this paradise or just a dream?

Track 08: Your Heart (Inverno)
Composer: Emerson Olaf
Style: Gothic Synthpop
Listen/Download: 

Lyrics: 

O anoitecer

O céu azul

A escurecer

E vem o frio

Acolher

A alma a

Perecer

Na solidão

Sem afeição

Do teu olhar

Sem atenção

O existir,

Sentir, sonhar

Já não é mais

Satisfação

Restando assim

Nada em mim

Que faça arder

O coração.

O inverno,

O anoitecer

E com o frio

Escurecer

Track 09: Voyage Through Space and Time
Composer: Emerson Olaf
Style: Electro Rock

Lyrics: Instrumental

Epic Church Highborn Spirit at Bandcamp