I have published a lyrics video for the radio edit version of my song Sabbatical Leave. You can watch it below or on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mfO0uZ7co
The full version of the track is on my Soundcloud profile at https://soundcloud.com/quantumprana/sabbatical-leave
“Sabbatical Leave” is the first tale of “The Adventures of Prof. Gideon Longbottom”. The evil researcher hates the world, and particularly his students with their smartphones always at hand. He therefore takes a Sabbatical leave to close himself into a laboratory in the cellar, for designing a weapon of mass destruction…with some (dark) humour.
Quantum Prana: vocals, lyrics, guitar, bass, programmed drums, production.
https://soundcloud.com/quantumprana/sabbatical-leave
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SABBATICAL LEAVE
Walking down the hall, the comedy plays
Students mocking me, “The hatchback will pay”
The rector won’t pay me regards
The faculty has only retards
Walking stick is carrying
My twisted proportions
My forehead is spacious
To accommodate grandeur
Massive head, naughty grin
My asymmetric chin
Showing the wasteland of my hatred for you
BURN! THEM ALL!
Petty dreams end in screams
Fire, your sins
BURN! THEM ALL!
The final resolution
Apocalypse of melted skin
Students check their smartphone
For quantum optics attention is gone
Spoiling little brats, technology
Life upon a display, making them restless
Your ignorance, your blessing
The final resolution
I’m taking my leave
Working in silence
In the cellar
Holding your smartphone
My grin on their display
BURN! THEM ALL!
Makeup and soaring screams
Flaming phones melt your skin
BURN! THEM ALL!
The final resolution
I’m gonna be a superstar!
(My) walking stick in flames
But I won’t care at all
Dancing on your graves
My twisted figure at the shopping mall
Delirium of the senses
The women will be mine
I shall just collect the pieces
Legs oh, will be carbonised
But after all, it will be fair!
Stepping down the stairs, cursing them all
You wonder why my laughing erupts
“That evil man has gone nuts!”
The dawn of my revenge
Sabbatical call
BURN! THEM ALL!
BURN! THEM ALL!
Revenge is nigh!
The Echoes From A Great Distance debut album, where I play bass and sing backing vocals, is now available for listening on Spotify. Check it out! #psychedelic #alternative #rock
https://open.spotify.com/album/5lSetoV1B8jMYjkWqKLj30?si=VxPAKz7VR9iJ5tup1Mau1Q
Here is a pretty nice track written and sung by Daniel, where I recorded electric guitar & bass and added some programmed drums. A cheerful tune about vision and discovery of yourself, with a cool surreal vibe, especially in the middle section. Inspired by Oasis and The Beatles. Check it out!
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-torchia-710404047
A dark, atmospheric tune with a horror vibe, where I whisper in the darkness. My little homage to William Blake (1757-1827). To appear in the Apskaft Present: Volume 5 compilation. https://apskaft.bandcamp.com/track/the-tyger
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Quantum Prana: vocals, guitar, fretless bass, drum programming, lyrics adaptation
Second Order Effects: keyboards
Produced by Quantum Prana
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Lyrics adapted from the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake (1794):
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night
When the stars / threw down their spears
And water’d heaven / with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made / the Lamb / make thee?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
Tyger Tyger, burning bright
When the stars / threw down their spears
And water’d heaven / with their tears
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
“Funky Matters” (a play with words) is a song/essay about the discoveries as well as the uncertainties of Particle Physics. Funk and jazz structures and rhythms develop on a metal arrangement, with clean singing and choruses to sing along with (lyrics below).
#nerdmetal
Quantum Prana: Vocals, guitar, bass; lyrics, production
Second Order Effects: Keyboards
Klas Granqvist: Drums
Special thanks to Elisa Mucciarelli and Tatu Hiltunen.
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FUNKY MATTERS
Ancient Greeks figurin’ it all,
Democritos, the atoms, reduction to the call
Fundamental particles, grains of cosmology
Dividing life, by analogy, with our reality
Galilei’s method of induction
(Was) grounded on eye observation
Solitons / got noted / while ridin’ a horse
Newton and Huygens were fighting
Over new tools for understanding
How funky matters / make up the world
Aether was then invented
For light propagation
However the experiments, couldn’t confirm the equation
Einstein eventually, found the solution
Special relativity killed the funky matter
And gave us / Star Trek
Will string theory save us all?
Will we see the curvaton?
Quantum gravity for all!
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CHORUS
Funky matters to all
Come on and join us / at / the / shopping mall
Warping space and time
Enter the quantum loop, and join the ride
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We’re all cool funky matters
Dancing on warping dimensions
We all live under a Calabi-Yau
Supergravity takes the ball
Superpartner of the graviton
Radiative corrections
Are looping in the action
A new bunch of particles was then invented
But nobody has seen them in the Universe
Dark matter remains very dark
Though supersymmetry protects the Higgs
We all need a superpartner!
Will we see the dilaton?
Quantum gravity for all!
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CHORUS 2
Funky matters to all
Come join us / at / the / shopping mall
We’re all cool funky matters
Hunting and searching / the grand unification
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CHORUS 3
We’re all cool funky matters
Particle or wave, (it) doesn’t really matter
Warping space and time
Quantum gravity for all!
So here is my final arrangement (at least until I find a producer) of You, an Odalisque song everybody loved.
I wish to thank my collaborators Elisa Mucciarelli and Second Order Effects for their excellent work. Special thanks go to Tatu Hiltunen and Jussi Lindström for their earlier contribution.
https://soundcloud.com/quantumprana/you-demo-2019
You can listen to the track in my Media page as well.
Following the Taoist aim at simplicity, I have redesigned the website with a simpler layout, and cleared up all the pages from redundancies.
Hopefully now everything is more accessible, go and have a look!
Hi everybody!
I’ve just posted a video of me playing the Celesti Alliance song “The Alliance” with my brand new Ibanez SR1405T (a wonderful instrument!). Straight into the amp and in passive mode, the signal chain is ridiculously simple: bass->cable-> Johnson Standard 30B amp. I didn’t even use my Seymour Duncan Studio Bass compressor, I wanted the sound of the instrument to come out as transparent as possible.
Of course, since the sound is recorded directly by the inbuilt mic of my camera, it is far from being Hi-Fi, but this gives the idea of how good this bass sounds even with low end gear, without any production.
Check it out and like it if you like!
KMP stands for KriMathPrana, a new creature by me (Quantum Prana) on guitar and fretless bass, [owt kri] on drones and samples, and Math Generator on drums.
This is a dark ambient project, where we are free to experiment new solutions about atmosphere and dynamics.
We aim to evoke deep feelings in the listener, while exploring our inner self.
This Dark Jazz track is based on a drone line by [owt kri], on which MathGen and I improvised with our instruments.
Quantum Prana - The Dark Matter Guitar 