VISION ETERNEL – “MOMENTS OF SEPTEMBER (REPRISE)”
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This Valentine’s Day marks the eighteenth anniversary of Vision Eternel’s debut extended play, Seul Dans L’obsession. It is also the sixteenth anniversary of the Japanese compilation, An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes, the tenth anniversary of the extended play Echoes From Forgotten Hearts (and the first anniversary of its Deluxe Edition). All Vision Eternel releases were originally planned to be released on Valentine’s Day, but most of them missed the deadline due to recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, or record label delays.
Unfortunately, Vision Eternel does not have a new release to present to its fans in 2025, but since this holiday is such a meaningful and important date in the band’s calendar (and also Jack Benny’s birthday), we are offering our annual Valentine’s Day Exclusive heartbreak treat: “Moments Of September (Reprise)”, an unreleased rarity from the band’s archives.
In keeping with the band’s most recent release, last year’s Deluxe Edition re-issue of Echoes From Forgotten Hearts, this song traces its origins from that extended play. Written for Echoes From Forgotten Hearts in 2014, but re-recorded during For Farewell Of Nostalgia‘s first session in 2018, “Moments Of September (Reprise)” offers a new take on “Pièce No. Sept”. The idea of Echoes From Forgotten Hearts was, initially, to have a single song that lasted seven to ten minutes. However, once the material was arranged for the score of a short film, the long song was broken down into smaller sections, or pieces. It was recorded and released as such on Echoes From Forgotten Hearts.
During the early demoing sessions for For Farewell Of Nostalgia in April 2017, “Pièce No. Sept” and other segments of Echoes From Forgotten Hearts were often played in rehearsal. Later, in June 2018, an idea sparked to finally record a proper seven to ten-minute version of the finished songs, as originally envisioned in 2014. The new version of the song, which took on the updated title “Moments Of September”, would have remained a b-side of For Farewell Of Nostalgia, but only a couple of demo versions were tracked during the release’s first recording session, between June and August 2018, and it was not re-recorded during the second recording session in 2019.
In addition to demoing the lengthier version, a new arrangement was made for a reprise version. This arrangement was made, recorded, and mixed on the night of July 19, 2018, during the same session as another reprise b-side, “Moments Of Neglection (Reprise)”. “Moments Of September (Reprise)” was one of two songs considered as an exclusive hidden bonus track for the vinyl edition of For Farewell Of Nostalgia, which was ultimately never released because the band could not secure a record deal (we are still looking!).
An original colored pencil drawing by Rain Frances of Rain Frances Art accompanies this year’s Valentine’s Day Exclusive. Frances has provided artwork for past Vision Eternel releases, including the Deluxe Edition of Echoes From Forgotten Hearts, For Farewell Of Nostalgia, the An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes boxed set, and the Lost Misfortunes series, as well as previous Valentine’s Day Exclusives.
Vision Eternel – “Moments Of September (Reprise)”
Vision Eternel
[Unreleased Track]
(Independent)
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Artist Links
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