Metamorphosys

by Stefan Erbe

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i am gene 04:49
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no remorse 04:34
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and run 04:51
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lost faith 04:28
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geminid 02:16
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earthformer 04:37
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Stefan Erbes Metamorphosys - the course of imperfection

“The urge for perfection is both motivation and destiny. It causes us to perform at our best, but at the same time holds up a mirror to our own imperfections.”

Erbe's third multimedia story about his android protagonist GENE strives for perfection on three different levels. Whether it's the music, the visual images or the story itself, all elements share a common intuition and ask the same question: when is something really perfect?

As in the previous story from 2023, Erbe blends the music with self-designed visuals and once again presents a complex and AI-generated universe of future thoughts and emotional developments of synthetic characters facing their own contradictions and moral choices. Of course, this theme is not entirely new, but Erbe presents it in a very special way. Music, images and story form a unity that has never been seen before. On the one hand, you get the feeling that Erbe's musical ideas are clear to decipher and that you can completely immerse yourself in the presentation of the story.

Nevertheless, he remains vague in his descriptions and leaves visitors plenty of scope for their own interpretations. No detail reveals the final meaning, but offers a variable motivation for the personal point of view.

Of course, the music on the current album also works excellently without the concert images. This time, the 12 tracks manage without additional vocals and atmospheric narrative elements and once again convey a narrative style that comes to a close in a spectacular finale.
The music therefore does not follow on from the concept of the previous album, but once again opens up a completely new chapter of unheard musical elements, embedded in Erbe's unmistakable sound of sequenced melodic structures, the deeply interwoven drum textures and his always very changeable sound aesthetics. However, Stefan Erbe remains true to himself in one thing. His great art of creating a 65-minute arc of suspense that fits almost every BPM category is a key element of his success over the last three decades.
While Stefan Erbe categorized the previous GENESYS23 album as “Eletronical”, his current concept should perhaps be described as “Imagical”.

Whatever a fitting description might be, Stefan Erbe is inexorably following the path of change and pursuing his own kind of hoped-for musical perfection with the album Metamorphosys. Perhaps even that of producing a final album at some point and being able to say that it simply can't get any better. But this misconception is probably the perfect reason to just keep going and never end with the pursuit of musical perfection.

The digital version of the album will initially be released on Bandcamp and Erbemusic.com on February 14
In February 2025, the album will then also be available on the usual digital distribution platforms. A CD version will follow in spring and a Bluray in summer 2025.
Erbe will present his complete work of art at various upcoming concerts and festivals.


www.erbemusic.com
Feb. 2025

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released February 14, 2025

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Stefan Erbe, german musician and media-artist.

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