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2013 is dead, long live 2014 - looking back upon 2013 and previewing 2014!
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Psy'Aviah live at Ancienne Belgique with 25 years of Praga Khan

Hi Everyone,

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01) Happy 2014 & Looking back on 2013
02) New Album Audio Previews, what’s to come in 2014
03) Our Free Download X-Mass/New Years Present for your

01) HAPPY 2014

First of all, a happy new year to everyone out there! Thanks to all of you for your support in the last year, it’s always heart warming to read and hear your comments!

2013 has both been a rough and wonderful ride at the same time. We released our Future Past EP (http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=2373_0_8_0_C) on Alfa Matrix records, with lovely reviews to read, great remixers on the line-up (Dizkodude, Amarta Project, Frenchfire and more to name a few), and were able to work with Kyoko Baertsoen on the track “Our Common Future“. We were also asked to open for Praga Khan’s 25-year anniversary concert at a sold out Ancienne Belgique. Remixes in 2013 were for Junksista, Ghost & Writer, Helalyn Flowers, Cynical Existence, and more…

We’ve released some music videos as well for the Future Past EP - tracks
- Circles (YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyuO00aU0M)

- and Letting Go (YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIy2YYH7ds), which was directed and handdrawn by the talented Emily Weeks.

In 2014 we will release the last music video of the Future Past EP, “Our Common Future ft. Kyoko Baertsoen”.

02) NEW ALBUM PREVIEWS

In the last months I’ve been focusing on getting music videos out for the Future Past EP, and slowly started to write new material - mainly demos and rough structures. These are now being finalized and new guest vocalists are joining the line up as well.

Below are some previews for you already, follow the links to hear the preview, read the lyrics and backstory of the song. And, feel free to leave your comments!

01. “On My Mind” ft. Lisa Nascimento: https://soundcloud.com/psyaviah/psyaviah-preview-work-in-2

02. “Long Way” ft. Lis van den Akker: https://soundcloud.com/psyaviah/psyaviah-preview-work-in

03. “Broken / Failed”: https://soundcloud.com/psyaviah/psyaviah-preview-work-in-1

04. “Untitled”: https://soundcloud.com/psyaviah/psyaviah-preview-work-in-3

See you in 2014!
~ Yves, Psy’Aviah

03) PS… OUR NY-2014 PRESENT

Before I forget, here’s a previously unreleased remix of the track “Paused” by Amarta Project, which we’re now putting online as a free download for XMASS/NEW YEAR 2014! DOWNLOAD LINK: https://soundcloud.com/psyaviah/free-xmass-gift-2013-paused - go to the soundcloud page & hit the download button under the music player!

Contest [ Win 3 Psy'Aviah CD's ] - #Share Your Psy’Aviah #Story
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Share Your PSY'AVIAH Story With Us & The World To Win 3 PSY'AVIAH CDS

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, Emilie Autumn… We did some special acoustic sets in FNAC stores, and Microsoft thought ‘t was a good idea to get us on board for their Windows 7 campaign, and there was the #UrbanSharing, project, 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 [email protected];
  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

New EP “FUTURE PAST” >> Interactive Trailer
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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”.