“Love within Narcosis” is without a doubt my landmark, at least according to my closest friends who understand my music and understood Triskalyon completely. “Narcosis” was I think the third or fourth song to be recorded for Vision Éternel, and it was a really cool riff progression, but I just couldn’t get to record it right. For the recordings I actually did it in many takes, and spliced them together at the end. Kind of cheating, but it was the only way I could make it sound perfect. It was also the very first single by the band.
Video cue and cut list from February 2014
It also marked my first venture into music video making. The original music video was filmed on a beat up JVC GR-DVM90 camcorder that my family had bought at least five or six years prior to the shooting. I began filming around or between February 5th-9th of 2007, as the first EP, “Seul dans l’obsession” was almost ready to be released. I had already announced to the Triskalyon fans that I wanted to make something extra for this band. So I went outside in the cold dusk of February, and I started taking pictures for the album cover, this was with a digital photo camera my dad had. I liked the mood of the lantern and setting sun a lot, especially since I was able to incorporate a bit of the bitter cold outside (even if this was in New Jersey). The next day I got the camcorder and attempted to recreate a similar feeling on video. That night when I went on my computer to edit the video out, it was one of my first times using Adobe Premiere, so what came out was pretty choppy. As well, my monitor was dying out and the resolution was really, really dark. So the final product was a lot brighter than intended. The gamma was all out of whack. But of course I wasn’t aware of it just yet. Later that evening I added it to YouTube, which was still pretty new back then, and the widescreen format wasn’t an option back then, and I must have messed up something in the encoding because when the video was uploaded, it looked horrible, in quality, in frame and in resolution. But it was my first video and decided it was acceptable. The video was released on February 9th 2007, and the EP came out five days later on the 14th.
It was about a year later that I saw once again the same video on YouTube on my room-mate’s Christina MacBook, and I realized just how bad it looked. Nidal was there and he and Christina (who were “dating” at the time) were utterly unimpressed by the video. I felt really embarrassed. The entire mood was off, and people just weren’t getting the right vibe from it. From that point on I always told myself that I would rework it some day, when it would possibly get released on DVD.
Almost four years after the making the video, I was working on a Vision Éternel video interview, and was struck by the desire to fix this whole thing up. It was the perfect moment to get people to rewatch the video. So the video was remastered on October 12th and 13th of 2010.