Cyborg started, effectively, like an ideal soundtrack for a videogame. Then began to matter some much interesting for me, something much deep. I adore Asimov, and I began thinking that song like a mental vision of the robot. In this work, must important thing is that I achieved to condense more ideas than in the past, making more solid songs. "Back To The Light" was a transition album, placed in a very defined moment. This time I worked aware of what I want to do with all other musicians.
Actually, that part started life as a synth. It's a song I wrote on a computer, using a sort of synth guitar. It was a quick job I did for a computer game. And it obviously cried out to be a proper guitar thing, so I went for it. These days I'm using my fingers to pick more. Because there are a lot of things you can do by plucking the strings in different directions. And it also links into tapping, because your right hand isn't holding a pick, so its free to go up on the fret board. I'm not heavily into tapping, but there are certain things you can do where the [right hand] finger can also hit a fret and get little transition notes, which can be really nice.
The structure of this song came very spontaneously. I resisted the temptation of building it in a more classical way. It is actually strange and different and it is also quite exact to say it's not surprising coming from me... I like to find myself in places where there are no rules. This complete freedom came essentially from the fact that this song was set in a futuristic context where, by definition, everything can be imagined. Then I realized little by little that there were many more links with the actual period that I could imagine, human nature being what it is, with its moments of joy and grief. I have also always been a science fiction fan, in the sense that it becomes possible to transpose men in a different context. With my son, I become immersed again in many books of this genre, in which I found a great pleasure.