VESPERO - from “Fitful Slumber until 5 A.M.“ (R086, .)

“Music is like a dream. At the same time it is, on the contrary, like a more distinct form of consciousness than that of our normal waking hours. Which of the two really was music, I used to wonder? Music had the power at times to reverse these contrary things.“ – from “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion“ by Yukio Mishima (1956). “Fitful Slumber until 5 A.M.“ is the 6th studio album by VESPERO. It’s a fascinating, all instrumental, conceptual piece touching upon the theme of intricate functions of the human