Sky Architect return with their fourth album "Nomad". The album contains 7 brand new tracks. After "A Billion Years Of Solitude" the band focussed on less complicated, song-based material. But it was also written as much as possible together as a band. As the members all had jobs and lived in different cities it became more challenging to get everybody in the same room. Once they were, they wrote very quickly and ideas were flying in all directions. As a result, the initial idea of "simple, song-based" material was ditched soon enough, because "…we decided we were at our best in an environment without constraints, where every creative idea is welcome." Needless to say, the songs evolved, or rather, escalated quickly into more elaborate pieces.
Monodies et polyphonies médiévales. (Manuscrits de Las Huelgas, Florence, Cambrigde). Polyphonies des XXe et XXIe siècles (Ivan Moody). Femmes au tombeau pour 5 chanteuses solistes de Caroline Marçot création mondiale, commande de l’Abbaye de Sylvanès. « D’abord elles se déplacent jusqu’au sépulcre pour entamer leur processus de deuil ; par les soins du crucifié : l’embaumement. Mais elles stoppent et découvrent un nouveau seuil : à l’heure où la lumière hésite entre nuit et jour, l’éblouissement éclatant de la résurrection fait écho à l’Annonciation. Car le corps du bien aimé est absent. Leur peur cède : par l’ouverture du tombeau, elles font l’expérience du vide et de ce que, dévoilé, sa conscience s’élargit.
Like the Armenian merchants of the 17th century, Nomad Express contributes, with this record, to the meeting ant the cross-breeding of musical cultures coming from the Orient and the Occident.