In 2010 I made the first record in a series of 9 to be released on my birthdays, "Happy 23 Honey", based on a Sigil I've made after reading interviews of William S. Burroughs then Genesis P-Orridge on the 23 enigma and Chaos Magick. I don't think I knew exactly what I was doing, but I had too much coffee and, close to a panic attack, started working. The records that followed for the series were mostly studio solo albums on their own, with a few exceptions : a live recording and two compilations of demos. After I finished the "Happy 31 Honey" in 2018, I really thought I closed the series as it was the definitive solo record I wanted to make : all by myself, not that lo-fi, exactly what I had in mind with some part improvisation, lots of gear, and the closest to what I had in my mind when I started doing solo music many years ago. I wanted then the "Happy 32 Honey" to be a 32 songs pop record with short ones like the Residents "Commercial Album" and lot of friends featuring, playing in my studio. Life decided otherwise and I had to move and move on, had to sell back half if not most of my recording studio and globally had a pretty rough year. We continued touring for the record "Arcane Majeur" we released as the band and it did not went as expected too and everyone went through a lot too. So I easily thought the record needed to be a dark, ambiant album made to be listened as loud as possible, the perfect opposite to the ambiant manifesto Brian Eno made when he started his series of ambiant albums (I still want to do something like this) The ambiant record I made at the time was too long with not enough songs and while I started picking up old things I made with the gear I just sold, I was still working like years ago and doing lo-fi tracks beside this. I finally had what consist of a large 3-disc record, rebooted almost from scratch half-way and cut everything as short as possible to make something not too dense. I ended with the record you have here. There was clearly a sort of narrative I wanted in the tracklisting, to let the incarnation I had as a solo artist die with the sound in itself : the records starts almost as a self-parody of my previous records and while going forward, goes through mutations, flashbacks until it all became instrumental, abstract, and destroyed, with each of the albums closing with its own theme. As I intended this to be my last studio "solo" record it's also the least "solo" I've made since all my bandmates (as of Spring 2019) are here, but we're never playing all together. Speaking of them, this record is sonically what our second record as a band will NOT be. While waiting for its release, I have an outtakes compilation and two EP's on the way that'll be there before the end of the year. To finish with this, I chose the title "Neuromantique" as I refer sometimes in my work as "Neuromancienne" a feminization of the French translation for "Neuromancer". This is the "Happy 32 Honey" of course, but since the narrative ends with death and reincarnation, I like the idea of opening the way for something new with this title. Love, the idea of Love, and how we use that idea to navigate to and through a Love relationship in our times is what I call the neuromantics. How we are subject to chemicals, endogenous and exogenous, and their artificial intelligent counterparts as the Applications and Screens becoming "retina of the Mind" (see Videodrome), all of them forcing us through new Love patterns we have to decipher.