Alpha Lyra

Christian Piednoir has always pursued a dual artistic activity. A professional photographer and a passion for electronic music led him to approach Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernd Kistenmacher, Tim Blake and others, at concerts, or in private situations. These meetings, and listening to this style of music for so many years, made a personal musical project was born. Alpha Lyra was born in 2005. With his passion for astronomy, Christian chose this name, because the star Alpha Lyra (also called "Vega") is the brightest of the only constellation representing a musical instrument.
The musical univers developed by Christian is very deep and sensitive. Despite the influence of his masters, he takes the listener through a very personal space travel.
Christian is now considered of the most "cosmic" French electronic musicians.
Alpha Lyra
AlphaLyra + Moonsatellite - Live in Nancy 2013

Artist: AlphaLyra + Moonsatellite
P: 2014
Here are the two concerts from 2013 in Nancy in one set. Nice mix between Berlin School and Jarre.

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AlphaLyra - Between Cloud and Sky

Artist: AlphaLyra
P: 2016
Berlin School tracks with melody and harmony.

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AlphaLyra - From Berlin to Paris

Artist: AlphaLyra
P: 2013
From Berlin to Paris is... a dreamlike journey through Electronic Music meanders. A tribute to Berlin, Capital of the musical culture during the 70', then a comeback to Paris, Capital of Arts and Kosmische Musik zealot. A romantic odyssey, starting with the very first Moog rustlings, then flying by synthetic ambiences of today.
Klaus, Manuel and Edgar musics still continue, today, to make me dream and, in the quietness of my musical ideas, I remember all those meetings we had, sharing some drink around a table or in the intimacy of a studio, friends and masters. Together.
From Berlin to Paris is dedicated to all of you who share the same love for that music that came to us, someday, from another world...

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AlphaLyra - Full Colours

Artist: AlphaLyra
P: 2021

FULL COLOURS is five titles portraying the personal, intimate and sensitive universes of Christian PIEDNOIR, alias ALPHA LYRA. This ninth solo album was born out of the tumultuous period that we have all experienced over the last 18 months. It moves between worry and the fear of an uncertain future, but ultimately there are notes of hope, the certainty of a future that will be brighter and full of colour once again. For colour is a part of our lives and notably the ‘reason being’ for all creatives, be they musicians or visual artists. Christian PIEDNOIR vivaciously navigates his way between these two worlds, be it behind his keyboards or in front of his paintings. Each title of FULL COLOURS lasts between 12 and 17 minutes, the time necessary to immerse oneself totally and relax into the orchestral armchair offered by ALPHA LYRA. Intertwined sequences, silky layers, melodies and rhythms combine to offer thoughtful and accomplished music, a tender mix between ambient, Berlin School and “joyful electro”. Some will hear Wagnerian accents or a few intonations reminiscent of Chopin. The album cover was not chosen without reason... The work reproduced is "Contemplation Dufy" by Amanda Rackowe, painter and companion to Christian. This large triptych was inspired by a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in Paris when the artist found herself facing the monumental and coloured fresco, “La Fée Électricité”, executed by Raoul Dufy. Electricity and electronics, there was only one small step for Christian to take to link the painting and his music.

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AlphaLyra - Sailing over the Sea

Artist: AlphaLyra
P: 2023
The idea of ​​“Sailing over the sea” was born during a trip to England, while flying over the Atlantic coast. This vision of clouds seeming to hover a few meters above the surface of the sea, lit by a sumptuous and generous golden light of a setting sun was a real trigger for a title and the theme of the album.
The construction of the pieces is based on what I have always liked to do.
Set up an atmosphere slowly so that the listener feels carried away by the emotions that I wish to convey. We find very elaborate sounds in their structures, calm breaks which allow us to breathe between complex sequences, but also contributions of rhythms which give relief.
This new CD is a continuity in my musical evolution.
There are no big changes, but certainly different emotions are behind the use of sometimes vintage sounds, or sequences that can recall the complexities of those created by Klaus in these last productions.

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AlphaLyra - The Nude (Soundtrack)

Artist: AlphaLyra
P: 2018
Harmonic ambient with new compositions for a soundtrack to the movie:"The Nude".

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AlphaLyra - Ultime Atome

Artist: AlphaLyra
P: 2017
Drone like Ambient with some slight sequences.

The theme of this CD is an immersion in the microscopic world of atoms, in search of the one that is not yet known!
"Physicists are rarely poetic when it comes to naming atomic particles ! And the names of the temporary atoms are even less so. These purely theoretical atoms do not exist naturally, but researchers are convinced that they will bring them to life. They will then change their surname, and will generally take the name of the discoverer.They are called Uuu 111 for Ununium (un = 1 + 1 + 1), Uub 112 for Ununbium (1 + 1 + bi = 2), Uut 113 for Ununtrium (1 + 1 + 3 = tri), etc.
Scientific but not very glamorous !Uun 119 is not yet part of history, it must be at the bottom of a notebook of a brilliant physicist...  And what about the “ultimat atom” ? The particle that germinates in the brain of a mad scientist, or a mere dreamer, or maybe in the imagination of an electronic musician ? "

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Schwingungen Radio auf CD - Edition Nr.219 08/13
Schwingungen - Radio auf CD
Edition Nr.: 219
08/2013
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V/A - Floating Days

Artist: Kryfels, B. Loreau,Alpha Lyra,Sequentia Legenda,
Age, Moonsatellite, O. Briand u.a.

P: 2021
Nice compilation of the new french electronic scene.
This is dedicated to Klaus Schulze. Most of the tracks cover the Berlin School style.

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Various Artists - Dreams of my Space

Artist: Various Artists
P: 2008

Someone who believes that one can find the best electronic music only on already published CDs, might perhaps be proved wrong. Maybe you have not noticed the many artists without record contract, presenting their music on the Internet, especially on MySpace.com. Here you can find several undiscovered talents presenting themselves with often amazingly good music. Sometimes, even in comparison to professional releases, you can find extraordinary good music, which is worth-while to be published and also worth-while to be supported to gain much more attention. Motivated by this point of view, the idea for a compilation series with international artists of the EM came into being. On the first CD DREAMS OF MY SPACE - Vol.1 artists from Denmark, Finland, France, Spain, Australia and Germany are presented. Endowed and undiscovered talents who create these soundsculptures, which shift us into most pleasing and magic moods that were played with synthesizers, computers and electronics. "Thanx For The Add" is an idiom on MySpace.com which is a kind of "thank you message" for the admission as a friend. ROBERT SCHROEDER, the producer of the compilation, also says "Thanx For The Add" to the artists, because their co-operation made these marvelously spherical and relaxing CD possible at all.The Frenchman KRISTALIUM is one of the highlights and surely should have a promising future. He creates simple, bizarre soundscapes with clear, simple and accessible melodies - earworms. However McCartnoTron from Germany reminds one rather of KRAFTWERK and his song "Unterseeboot" (submarine) is a new and interesting kind of vocoder music. Guido Negraszus lives in Australia and is represented with two tracks on that CD. Fantastic guitar melodies are combined with clearly structured basics, simply doing good in a beautiful sound, one comes into momentum, drifting into far-away thoughts. As a bonus track, the title "Kopenhaachen" from Nattefrost is added. The track is a co-production of Björn Jeppesen and Robert Schroeder, the only artists on the CD which already own a contract with a record company.

Produced by ROBERT SCHROEDER

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