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About Me

ENGLISH SAMSARA was created in 1997 by Arnaud Guerin and Stephan Montagne. Both students in Nantes (France), they create an ambient music, thought as an enhancement for Stephan's texts, music inspired by many different sources (classical, doom, gothic, metal, progressive...).
From 1998, the collaboration between the two original band members becomes a long distance one, the music being composed between London, Nantes and Paris.
From this peculiar exchange, two Demos are born: "Leidenschaft" (1998) and "Les vagues, l'air... Amen" (2000). The music is yet still mostly synthetic, except for the guitar and the flute.
Following the second Demo, the duo wishes to bring SAMSARA to a new dimension and launches itself into the creation of its first proper album.
The release of this one, "The Awakening" (8 tracks, September 2003), recorded and mixed by Arnaud, marks a new step in the band's evolution: texts become lyrics and additional musicians join the duo.
The two original members embark on a new journey and hope to develop and enrich the world of SAMSARA. Laurence sings along Stephan and Williams plays the extra guitar on the song "In chains", written by himself and Stephan. The rhythm section is now both electronic and played by Pierre-Yves on the drums, and the flute on the closing track is again played by Berni, who already appeared on the second Demo.
This enlarged-band work has brought SAMSARA to new horizons and has given a more live touch to it as well in this latest opus.
THE PRESS
FRANCAIS SAMSARA a ete cree en 1997 par Arnaud Guerin et Stephan Montagne. Tous deux, etudiants a Nantes, travaillent alors a la composition d'une musique instrumentale atmospherique illustrant les textes de Stephan et nourrie d'influences diverses (classique, doom, gothique, metal, progressif).
A partir de 1998, la collaboration entre les deux membres fondateurs du groupe se fait a distance, les morceaux sont ecrits entre Londres, Nantes et Paris.
De ces echanges epistolaires ou via Internet natront deux demos: "Leidenschaft" (1998) et "Les vagues, l'air... Amen" (2000). Leur musique est alors principalement synthetique bien que guitare et flute soient presentes.
Suite a cette deuxieme demo, le duo decide de donner une dimension nouvelle a SAMSARA et se lance dans l'ecriture dun veritable premier album.
La sortie de ce dernier: "The Awakening" (8 titres, septembre 2003) enregistre et mixe par Arnaud, marque une reelle evolution: la presence du chant et l'arrivee de nouveaux musiciens au sein du groupe.
En effet, le duo fondateur s'est entoure afin d'enrichir et de perfectionner l'univers de SAMSARA. On notera les performances de Laurence qui accompagne Stephan au chant et de Williams, guitariste et co-compositeur du morceau "In chains" . Les rythmes sont desormais tantot electroniques tantot excutes par Pierre-Yves a la batterie et, Berni, deja present sur "Les vagues, L'air... Amen" , execute les parties de flutes sur le morceau qui cloture l'album.
Ces diverses collaborations ont permis au groupe d'atteindre d'autres horizons musicaux en apportant notamment plus de spontaniete et de vie a ce dernier opus.
LA PRESSE
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DISCOGRAPHY


LEIDENSCHAFT (démo 1998)
1-Intro
2-Flots (sample)
3-Sens Obscurs
4-Perdre le Temps I
5-Perdre le Temps II
6-Outro (sample)
LES VAGUE, L'AIR... AMEN (démo 2000)
1-Les Vassaux de l'Eternelle, Part I
2-Les Vassaux de l'Eternelle, Part II
3-Les Vassaux de l'Eternelle, Part III (sample)
4-Les Vassaux de l'Eternelle, Part IV
5-La dernière Bande
6-Spirale
THE AWAKENING (2003)
1-Fallen
2-Fée dHivers
3-Mina
4-7.1
5-La muse Ment
6-7.2
7-In Chains
8-As

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/22/2006
Band Members: STEPHAN: Vocals, Guitars.
ARNAUD: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards.

On "THE AWAKENING":
LAURENCE: Vocals
BERNI: Flutes
PIERRE-YVES: Drums
WILLIAMS: Guitars

Influences: Dead Can Dance
Lisa Gerrard
Elend
My Dying Bride
Within Temptation
Pink Floyd
Archive
Fields of the Nephilim
Radiohead
The Gathering
Nick Cave
David Bowie
Paradise Lost
Leo Ferre
Jacques Brel
Barbara
Serge Reggiani
Alain Bashung
Purcell
Haendel...

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