Contest [ Win 3 Psy'Aviah CD's ] – #Share Your Psy’Aviah #Story

Time flies! I, Yves, first started making music around +/- 2000, the first real Psy’Aviah demos and releases appeared at around 2003, that’s 10 years ago… A perfect time to celebrate with a contest.

Over those years a lot has happened for us, we’ve travelled places, played festivals, were banned from youtube, played live inside an internet-banner, got nominated by BBC, got the chance to collaborate with so many talented vocalists, opened for acts like 65DaysOfStatic, Praga Khan, and did some special acoustic sets in FNAC stores, etc.. etc.. And from time to time we recieved (even gifts, such as a fan-made synthesizer), or heard stories from people about our music. How the music touched them, or how they got to know us.. How passionate they are about a song, a lyric, a sound or a word we’ve created. It’s one of the most rewarding things for a musician to hear those individual stories…

So, because it’s 10 years AND because we have a new EP out, called “Future Past”, here’s our contest & the rules:

  1. Share, tweet, vlog, blog or pin your Psy’Aviah story; share it with the world;
  2. And don’t forget to send it to us at info@psyaviah.com;
  3. Do all of this before 07/07/2013, that’s the deadline!

After the deadline we’ll choose three “stories”, each of them will recieve the following package:

  1. “Future Past” EP, from 2013
  2. “Introspection ~ Extrospection” 2cd limited edition, from 2011
  3. “Eclectric” 2cd limited edition, from 2010

That’s 3 releases, a total of actually 5 cd’s of Psy’Aviah music…
So what are you waiting for? #Share your Psy’Aviah #story and #win !

Grtzz
Psy’Aviah

Letting Go (Amarta Project remix) on Communion After Dark show!

The Communion After Dark radio has featured our track “Letting Go” in the Amarta Project remix (from our latest EP “Future Past”) on their show! Several options on you how you can listen in:

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRJ1IcZXGUw

LISTEN ON PODBAY
http://podbay.fm/show/277059504

OR LISTEN ON iTUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/communion-after-dark-radio/id277059504

This #podcast runs every Monday and showcases the best in alternative electronic — #EBM, dark #electro#synthpop#goth#powernoise

First review for “Future Past” EP is excellent, A+!

Holy shit!! Peek-A-Boo-Magazine did a double review (by their editors Filip and Phil) of our new “Future Past” EP, and we scored a nice 92/100! Read all about it here: [ http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/reviews/psy-aviah-future-past-ep/ ].

Here are some quotes we especially like :

“Again, this EP is a true success! It’s like a soft dream, an electronic journey into nostalgia.”

“I don’t like dubstep but here, the elements of beats and synths are introduced with such subtlety that it works perfectly.”

‘Our common future’ has a clear guitar sound in it and Kyoko Bartsoen is joining the vocal team (love it). This one is so sweet that it feels as if you need to brush your teeth’s afterwards. I loved the sexy @Dizkodude remix!”

Thx to Peek-A-Boo for the review & understanding our evolving & experimentation in sound & songwriting: because that is what Psy’Aviah is all about!

To finish, here’s our interactive youtube trailer to preview the new “Future Past” EP:

New EP “FUTURE PAST” >> Interactive Trailer

To let you sample from our new EP “Future Past”, we prepared an interactive youtube video.. Enjoy!

The new “Future Past” EP builds on our previous album ”Introspection/Extrospection”, and takes it one step further. Having tasted electro-pop, dubstep and electro-house… we decided again to make it our own. Resulting in a blend of ambient-dubstep on “Circles”, ballad like electro-pop on “Letting Go”, pure EBM vs Electro-House with acid elements on “Look Beyond”, and some dubstep-electro influences VS ambient textures on “Paused” and “Our CommonFuture”. The EP reminds us through the lyrical themes how we all keep struggling with past trauma:  “… time and time again making the same mistakes… I guess it’s true when they say that people never change” (taken from the track “Circles”).

In true PSY’AVIAH tradition, this EP is again crowned by another prestigious collaboration: with miss Kyoko Baertsoen (former HOOVERPHONIC artist & co-founder of LUNASCAPE). Her unique voice & timbre perfectly fits the very emotional song “Our Common Future”.

“Letting Go” music video concept sketches

We received some concept sketches from Emily Weeks for the music video she’s working on for a brand new track of ours “Letting Go”. The story takes place in the 1940s and follows main character “Valerie”‘s struggle with a past trauma. Her state of mind is symbolised by the deterioration of her hair. Finally she becomes a nun because she just can’t cope with the unpleasant memories and thoughts.

Take a look at the sketches at our fb-album [ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150267692599982.70130.7690679981&type=1&l=66f2910082 ], and give the short demo of “Letting Go” a listen at soundcloud [ https://soundcloud.com/psyaviah/letting-go-demo-preview ]!