Discography


Fusion  

Produced by
Hiili Hiilesmaa, Eilera, Loïc Tézénas

Recorded at Hip Studio, Finnvox Studio and in home studio.

Engineers:
Juha Heininen, Arto Tuunela, Eilera, Loïc Tézénas

Mixed at Finnvox studio by
Juha Heininen & Hiili Hiilesmaa

Mastered at Finnvox Studio by
Mika Jussila

All lyrics by
Eilera
All music & Arrangements by
Eilera & Loïc Tézénas

Cover Art: Johann Snell & Jim Silander

Front Photography by Emilie Potin-Suau

Vocals: Eilera
Guitars: Loïc Tézénas
Programming: Eilera & Loïc Tézénas
Fiddle: Tony Canton, Ian McCamy
Violins: Laura Airola, Kukka Lehto, Ilkka Lehtonen, Benjamin Hirschowitsch
Cello: Max Lilja
Double Bass: Mikko Moilanen, Tomi Harrivaara
Bass: Tommi Saarikivi, Pasi Heikkilä
Drums: Antti Lehtinen
Fusion (2007)  
01. Non Merci
02. In the Present
03. Healing Process
04. Fusion
05. Addicted
06. The Angel You Love, The Angel You Hate
07. Keep Our Heaven
08. Back to the Essentials
09. Free... Are You?
10. September 		 

FUSION – Song by Song

NON MERCI
The opening song of the album is an anti-nostalgia song. It came to me one day as I was feeling a little pinch in my heart, thinking about some good old memories. And I actually became very much annoyed about this! As I realised how pervert nostalgia can be. I mean, the second you start missing the past, you become unable to see what’s good in your present…And you start missing a lot.
So I had to say to this lady: ‘Non Merci’. Politely.

IN THE PRESENT
This song follows the previous one quite logically. It is about Living. Capital L.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but right now, and right here. Feel home, feel your roots, from your toes to the top of your head, and allow your eyes to see what’s beautiful around you for real, and not only in your fantasies of a far-away make-believe land. This song is the person I am today: a girl with her feet dug deeper and deeper in the ground of home, but enriched with the perfumes of abroad.
Some metal music which was composed on the top of a mountain that stands in the middle of a triangle between my blue mountains, south-west Ireland and Scandinavia.

HEALING PROCESS
It’s the story of a little girl who has grown older, and who can now answer a question she had set for herself years ago: ‘Will I still be able to love in a pure way when I am an adult? Or am I going to become like one of those Hollywood actors who have sex five minutes after they met and without feelings?’
Well, the answer is in the song, for ‘I haven’t lost it…The Dreaming’!
I’ve enjoyed very much playing with the electronics on this song. I think these sounds are very powerful, primal; very sexual. They marry fiddlin’ and rock very well, like in a passionate embrace between a romantic woman and a strong masculine and yet sensitive man.

FUSION
There is a girl feeling her feet freezing in the snow. She is watching two men training a young horse, and a cold sun is setting. She is filled with strong emotions that make her heart beat faster with passion and excitement, and her head is flying a little bit. For her self is filled with contrasts that make her feel very much alive: the warmth of her blood and the cold on her body, the smoke that is coming out of the horses’ nostrils in the freezing air, as well as the energy of his movements in the dormant nature, the sleeping trees with so much life inside that will come out as soon as the snow will be gone, the fire of the sun setting on the white snow, and all of these bringing her back to the warm passionate freedom she has enjoyed a few hours before with a man of warm and cold blood…

ADDICTED
It’s a song about things that make my heart beat faster. Adventure, passion, excitement, the unknown…All these things that make me want to enjoy every day of my life. ‘I want no life without passion. Without love’…
I needed percussions for such a song! It was a very exciting time to compose and play the song, for I felt its arrangements should be experimental and ambitious, but without breaking the simplicity of the song. A little bit like a saga with a simple ‘Good versus Evil’ central plot.

THE ANGEL YOU LOVE,
THE ANGEL YOU HATE
Of all negative feelings I have experienced so far, I felt that Guilt was the most destructive of all. This song is about realising that there is a super-power in me: that of hurting a man I had been loving for years.
I think this one of my strongest songs. Its arrangements had to be more naked and genuine. A music with roots. Those of the Celtic dramatic beauty meeting with a rough and violent form of metal music. The best of all cradles for the Strength and Frailty that would be carried in my lyrics and through my voice.

KEEP OUR HEAVEN
The idea of this song is very simple:
If we don’t take more care of the Heaven that surrounds us, we will lose it.
Then it is too late.

BACK TO THE ESSENTIALS
I am fascinated by storms. For me it is one clear validation that Perfection DOES exist. A perfection that scares and attracts me, and makes me feel very small. But at the same time, what other moment can make me feel more alive? When I witness a storm, Life suddenly feels very vividly in my body. Without any ornament. It becomes very clear, almost solid, like I could almost touch it.

FREE… ARE YOU?
To me, living in a democracy is a good start to your freedom, but it is not all. One day I wondered where the boundaries in my head were coming from. And I realised that even though I am not a religious person, some of them had been imposed to me by the Catholic Church. Shame and Guilt. Two good ways of controlling minds… Well, mine has decided to follow a moral that would not be governed by some negative intentions…I like to be naked without feeling ashamed or guilty.

SEPTEMBER
He is the chosen one among the 12. My favourite one. The one that takes me out of hibernation after the hot summer.
September to me rimes with renewed energy and purity. It witnesses the violent kiss of cool breeze and bright colours. In my music: the light fiddle and heavy rhythmic, light melodies and powerful ones.
One of my favorites among my babies.

- Eilera -

LYRICS

NON MERCI
You've been reaching my heart
and you squeezed it
You've been reaching my mind
you darkened it
You've been playing with my soul
trying to confuse me on...
on who I really am
and you lost the game
For I'll keep moving on
Can't let the past take hold of me
Non merci, non merci!
I say non merci, non merci!
I can't take the past's comforting hold

You've been painting in white the black memories
You've been adding sparkles to the gentle ones
You've been playing with my memory
trying to convince me that I should miss...
miss what was mine
and you lost the game
For I'll keep moving on
Can't let the past take hold of me
Non merci, non merci!
I say non merci, non merci!
I can't take the past's comforting hold

HEALING PROCESS
Fresh air
Your words help me breathe better
I am traveling
with you
on your island
my heart beating quicker
for too long
driven away from the genuine
the essentials
And all the while I am wondering, wondering,
singing one, two, three, four
would I want you for sex or would I want you for love
would I want you for sex or would I want you for love
not enough with the sex I'ld rather have you for love...
I think I'm safe here!
Yes I'm safe!
safe!
I haven't lost it... the dreaming!
I haven't lost it... the dreaming!
I am healing...

Ice cube
Easing the pain on a cheek
Your touch
my medecine
and
that is puzzling me that the
heart would answer to such a simple
simple notice
And all the while I am wondering, wondering,
singing un, deux, trois, quatre
would I want you for sex or would I want you for love
would I want you for sex or would I want you for love
not enough with the sex I'ld rather have you for love...
I think I'm safe here!
Yes I'm safe!
safe!
I haven't lost it... the dreaming
I haven't lost it... the dreaming
I am healing...

is it Love or Sex?
what is it, Love or Sex?

... that was love

ADDICTED
You will travel further away
and go through more adventures
try and make your heart beat even quicker
with the new and the unknown
with the new and the unknown
You're ADDICTED
to excitement
You're ADDICTED
to stimulation
You're ADDICTED
to intensity
And I want no life without Passion
I want no life without Passion
... not without love

You'll always find new challenges
You'll always look higher
happy with a little rest only
before the next goal to reach
before the next goal to reach
You're ADDICTED
to exceptional
You're ADDICTED
to complication
You're ADDICTED
to simplicity
And I want no life without Passion
I want no life without Passion
... not without love

KEEP OUR HEAVEN
The human taste for destruction
has been trapped by his own perversion
The machine that is out of control
she will eat us all

And the Water the Trees the Sky the Air the Breeze
the Mountains the Seas the Life verywhere
The LIFE
... And very soon we will wonder: 'where has our Heaven flown away?'

The human taste for perversion
Is leading him to his own destruction
The machine that is out of control
She will kill us all

And the Water the Trees the Sky the Air the Breeze
the Mountains the Seas the Life verywhere
The LIFE
... And very soon we will wonder: 'where has our Heaven flown away?'

FREE... ARE YOU?
and I'm smiling at what used to make me feel worried all the time
and I'm smiling at what used to make me feel worried all the time
and I'm smiling at what used to make me feel guilty
guilty
guilty all the time
and I'm smiling
yes I'm smiling
... and I'm throwing up all that used to make me feel guilty all the time

Make one with Freedom
Make one with Freedom

Threre's something good in the air tonight...
Something fresh and motivating...
Liberating me...
Liberating you...
Delicious breeze of Freedom calling me
Tempting me right here in my ear
It's making me excited
a little dizzy
Yeah! Ecstatic!
Mmmmm so happy!
Tell me, tell me:
Can you feel it too?!

and I'm smiling at what used to make me feel worried all the time
and I'm smiling at what used to make me feel worried all the time
and I'm smiling at what used to make me feel guilty
guilty
guilty all the time
and I'm smiling
yes I'm smiling
... and I'm throwing up all that used to make me feel guilty all the time

Make one with Freedom
Make one with Freedom

There's something cool in the air tonight
I wanna dance and I wanna go wild
on the top of the highest mountain
Do you?
And 'll go swim naked feel the caress of water
all over my body
Will you?
It's making me excited
a little dizzy
Yeah! Ecstatic!
Mmmmm so happy!
Tell me, tell me:
Can you feel it too?!

can you feel it too...
can you feel it too...
I am free... I am free... Are you?
I am free... I am free... Are you?
... I am free...

 

IN THE PRESENT
learn the pleasure
see simple pleasure
you don't always have to run far away,
it's right here under your nose

look around
see what's around you
you don't always have to run far away,
it's right here under your nose

take what's worth it give up the rest
take who's worth it give up the rest
but don't you dare think that you can not loose it
no, no
don't you dare

see what you have
it's not eternal
you don't always have to run far away
when it's right under your nose

love who's with you
stop caring for who's not
you don't always have to run far away
when it's right under your nose

take what's worth it give up the rest
take who's worth it give up the rest
but don't you dare think that you can not loose it
no, no
don't you dare

I will look for happiness in the present
I will save my time for the right ones
I will save my love for the right ones
I will love them before they go
I will save my time for the right ones
I will love them before they go...

FUSION
Snowy, Peaceful, Grand
My mind’s wondering on this land
How better I understand
The bright and serene outside
And the warm sap running in
boiling, boiling
pulsing, pulsing
living, living
explosive, explosive
As Cold and Heat can harmonize
As Sour and Sweet can embrace
I could be your Wild One
You could be my Guy, right ?
You could be my Wild One… All right !

You say it’s because of his young age he won’t obey
I say a free heart won’t be caught
With reins, time and reassuring talk
The flame inside will stay !

Care, Warmth, Loving arms
Little breaks for the Wild Horses’ Hearts
boiling, boiling
pulsing, pulsing
living, living
explosive, explosive
As Cold and Heat can harmonize
As Sour and Sweet can embrace
I could be your Wild One
You could be my Guy, right ?
You could be my Wild One… All right !

As Cold and Heat can harmonize
As Sour and Sweet can embrace
I will be your Wild One
You will be my Guy, right ?
You will be my Wild One… All right ?
All right then !

THE ANGEL YOU LOVE, THE ANGEL YOU HATE
I wake up there's a lit candle on the table You got up early for me
Today's my birthday
You've remembered...

I'm the Angel you Love
the Angel you Hate...

And I'm sorry I've stained your purity...I'm sorry

All you say is right my heart is full of dreams never to be satisfied
Eternal quest for Beauty
And this poison in my veins that you Love you Fear you Hate
I've loved you and I still do
Ambiguïty girl wants everything
...always...

I'm the Angel you Love
the Angel you Hate...

And I'm sorry...

I see you from behind You don't know I'm still looking
There's a pinch in my heart There's water in my eyes
There's Panic and relief
Fire and snow
A Rainy Sky Crying Drops of Sun
ô...

I'm the Angel you Love
The Angel you Hate

And I'm sorry I've stained your purity...I'm sorry

You burned your fingers on the flame of love, did you?...
Mine are still smoking...
Painful...
Painful

BACK TO THE ESSENTIALS
Today I found a treasure
It was not burried in the ground
but floating there above the ocean
and coming closer to the land:
The Lord of Storm in his best outfit...
He's looking my way...
I can not turn away and look for a shelter
I have to see, hear, feel
I can not turn away from this gift of Nature
I'm welcoming
thanking
thanking as I am

Reaching the Essentials
I am reaching Life
Getting closer I'm building Myself
Getting closer I'm building Myself

Now water is running over my face
and the wind is dancing all around
Extreme energy and gentleness
are making one
Electric spears descending through sheets of water
I'm feeling vulnerable
I am fascinated by so much Perfection
I'm welcoming
thanking
thanking as I am

Reaching the Essentials
I am reaching Life
Getting closer I'm building Myself
Getting closer I'm building Myself

SEPTEMBER
Fresh and insolent breeze is smacking me in the face
Fresh and insolent breeze is shaking me up to tease
sending shocks to my brain
Fresh and insolent breeze and my brain is wandering
... I am awaking with the touch of September...
I'm awaking
I'm awaking
I am being called to Life again

Fresh and insolent breeze is smacking me in the face
Fresh and insolent breeze and my pulse is quickening
sending shocks in my veins
Fresh and insolent breeze and my body 's celebrating
... I am awaking with the touch of September...
I'm awaking
I'm awaking
I am being called to Life again
... I am awaking with the touch of September...