1. Prog Rock, German band<… Read Full Bio ↴Note: There are three artists with this name.
1. Prog Rock, German band
2. 60's female pop singer.
3. Low-Fi Dublin Band
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In the spring of 1990, Kay Söhl, the two keyboarders Volker Söhl and Matthias Harder, founded the band TEMPORAL TEMPTATION. By that summer the band had already played its first gig - the first live performance of the core founding members of the band. In a way it was also Sylvan's birth. At this time the band played hard rock music and sang in German. Only a small part of their music was progressive rock.
In Autumn 1990, the band changed its name to CHAMELEON, a symbol of changeability, representing the long instrumental parts in their music. The cover artwork had a likeness to early MARILLION covers and has never been issued. In summer 1991 Marko Heisig joined Chameleon as the lead singer and bassist. Between 1992 and 1994 the band had a gloomy and aggressive tonality to them and in this they were very different from the more rocky sounds of the previous years. In 1992 the first official demo tape of Chameleon was released. With Matthias Koops as lead singer, the second official demo tape was recorded. The title was 'Slaves' and its tracklist was 'Time', 'Slaves', 'Mirror of a Lifetime' and 'Childhood Dreams'. (By the way, 'Slaves' was the old title of a version of today's song 'Deliverance' after which Sylvan's first album was named!).
In winter 1995 one of the band's dreams was fulfilled: Marco Glühmann, an old friend who played many years before with Chameleon, joined the band. Within the same year the third and last official demo tape was recorded. The tracklist was 'Beren and Luthien', 'Golden Cage' and 'Outro'. All of these songs have merged into Sylvan's first studio album in one way or another.
In 1997 the last live concert took place under the name Chameleon. Marko Heisig left the band and the bass was taken over by Patrick Münster. The band changed its name to Sylvan. Their first cd was recorded in 1998 and the second was released in 2000. (Adapted from text on the official history website). The music of the band is progressive rock with some hard rock moments, and some spacey melodic pop-rock elements, probably lingering from earlier in their career. Also there are some Art-prog elements, but really not enough to call this music Art-rock as such. Other apparent influences include psychedelic rock, a little PINK FLOYD in the spacey elements, and surely MARILLION and GENESIS.
2. 60's female pop singer. In 2006 her record "We Don't Belong" first recorded in 1965, was featured on a Rhino Records compilation set "The Hatbox collection" "Girl Groups Lost and Found" which gained two Grammy Award nominations in January 2007. Now a successful photographer living in London. www.sylvanmason.com In 1965 Sylvan became the first and only Stowaway on Radio Caroline's Mi Amigo Pirate Ship. She spent the weekend with Tony Blackburn, Roger Gale and Mike Allen promoting her record "We Don't Belong" which had recently been banned by the BBC; helping the dj's with their quiz shows and making jingles whilst the headlines in newspapers screamed "Beautiful blonde Marooned with 15 men". Unlike the new film "The Boat That Rocked" which is based on Radio Caroline, it was cold, uncomfortable and a bit smelly says Sylvan but the boys were very sweet and well behaved.
3. Irish band Sylvan are a five-piece low-fi Dublin-based group, originally formed in 2000 by band members Colin Russell-Conway (drums), Paul Clynes (vox & lead guitar), and Adam McCormack (vox & guitar). Adam left the group in 2004, to move to Denmark and is now recording & gigging with his new band, Imagine I Had Hands. At this point Kieron (Beardy) joined the band to replace Adam on vox & guitar. And Fergus Russell-Conway was also recruited to join the band on bass & backing vox. The band have released 3 full-length albums to date. Their first album "The Ugly Lemon" was recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini in 2003. They then recorded their second album My Marble Eye themselves in Dublin in January 2005. Sylvan have just released their third album "We Are Lying to you through song" in September 2007, and are currently touring this album in Ireland and Europe. http://www.myspace.com/sylvan1
So easy
Sylvan Lyrics
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When the past takes root in your head
Yet your glance shows agony - on the edge of losing yourself
You should not suppress it again
Drifting through a colder time - petrified in vain
In frigidity it is so easy
Freezing up your warmer side - paralyze the pain
Civilized your thoughts and finally forgot how bitterly you cried
And now it agitates, it thaws cos I can see it in your eyes
Try to forsake your tears but in the end it suffocates your lies
When you count those endless days in a restless silence alone
Will you ever know whom to blame?
Wiping off your former life - slipping down again
Drowning all this pain cos it's so easy
Acting simply synthesized - numb but so insane
It is so easy, it's so easy, it's so easy ...
Where to find your promises? Broken and light ...
Will you ever cope with it? Maybe sometime ...
How you could become like this? Faceless and blind ...
Slipping down again ...
Suck out your life inside never find indeed
That you need to be what you once symbolized
... it's so easy if you try ...
The lyrics of Sylvan's song "So Easy" convey the struggle of suppressing painful memories and emotions. The lines "When you breathe in memories and your thoughts are light-years away" and "Drifting through a colder time - petrified in vain" signify the deep-rooted pain and the effort to hide it away. The singer in the song has civilized their thoughts and forgotten their struggles, but the pain resurfaces and becomes suffocating.
The chorus "In frigidity it is so easy, freezing up your warmer side - paralyze the pain, it is so easy" highlights the ease of numbing oneself to the pain, but in the process, the person is losing their true self. The lines "Wiping off your former life - slipping down again, drowning all this pain cos it's so easy" depict the frustration of the cycle of suppressing pain and losing oneself.
The lyrics also ask important questions about forgiveness and coping with the past. "Where to find your promises? Broken and light ... Will you ever cope with it? Maybe sometime ... How you could become like this? Faceless and blind ..." conveys the struggle of accepting the past and moving on.
Overall, "So Easy" is a powerful song that conveys the emotional turmoil of suppressing emotions and losing oneself in the process.
Line by Line Meaning
When you breathe in memories and your thoughts are light-years away
Being lost in the past, wherein memories are being held dear within your mind that seem way too far to reach.
When the past takes root in your head
Being embedded and rooted in the past, and is affecting one's present and future decisions.
Yet your glance shows agony - on the edge of losing yourself
Despite putting a facade, the eyes can't lie and shows genuine pain - leading to the inevitability of losing oneself.
You should not suppress it again
It is not advisable to keep emotions locked and entrapped within oneself and must be properly dealt with.
Drifting through a colder time - petrified in vain
Getting lost in a dark and difficult moment that, despite feeling stuck, isn't hopeless.
In frigidity it is so easy
It's easy to fall into the coldness of despair and to give up in a situation that feels impossible to manage.
Freezing up your warmer side - paralyze the pain
To cope, it becomes necessary to suppress and numb one's emotions, despite the consequences of feeling hollow and lifeless.
Civilized your thoughts and finally forgot how bitterly you cried
To become more refined in thinking, one may have to bury their past and forget how they used to be emotional and vulnerable.
And now it agitates, it thaws cos I can see it in your eyes
Despite one's attempts to move forward, the mind is still disturbed and the emotions resurface, as made evident by the eyes.
Try to forsake your tears but in the end it suffocates your lies
Ignoring your true feelings and desires only leads to deeper pain that one may have to come to terms with.
When you count those endless days in a restless silence alone
Being trapped in your own thoughts, counting the days in the darkness, in solitude.
Will you ever know whom to blame?
It's difficult to pinpoint the source of the issue that's been causing the perpetual pain.
Wiping off your former life - slipping down again
Acting like your former self is no longer possible and results in a downward spiral to one's lowest point.
Drowning all this pain cos it's so easy
Submerging oneself in sadness can be tempting, as it becomes the easier option.
Acting simply synthesized - numb but so insane
Putting a fake, synthesized version of oneself to deal with life's difficulties instead of truly taking a hold of them results in one feeling hollow and insane.
Where to find your promises? Broken and light...
Feeling like promises made to oneself have been broken and forgotten, leaving one with nothing but a dim light in a time of darkness.
Will you ever cope with it? Maybe sometime...
Uncertainty of how to deal with the pain and wondering if it will ever subside, and if there will be a chance to cope with it in the future.
How you could become like this? Faceless and blind...
The inability to recognize oneself and understand how they became present in a lifeless, disconnected state of mind and emotion.
Suck out your life inside never find indeed
Allowing the pain to take control can remove the life one had within them, leaving them to search for it elsewhere.
That you need to be what you once symbolized
The need to be true to oneself and embrace the emotions and identity they once had.
... it's so easy if you try ...
It's not easy to deal with the pain, but it can be made easier by truly confronting it head-on and dealing with it directly.
Contributed by Jayden I. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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Découverte lors d'un festival a Lormont ou leur clavier était malade et qu'on leur avait volé tout leur matériel. Solidarité avec les autres groupes (amber light , mostly autumn) qui leur ont filé leur matos. Super performance et super groupe.