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Because I'm eager, a gear slut and a tone freak, with even more deep anger on top of that. Let's shoot some more dopamine.

After +30 years of playing bass (in function of the song, the track and the bands) I finally found the focus, the time and the encouragement (okay, also some guts) to get this out.

The plan? Stop sleeping for weeks and release everything at once. These tracks aren't finished products. They're working material, raw sketches meant to be developed with a band.

This is the Ultraviolet Space Princess Saga: 14 tracks that have been dormant in my head since early 2000. Some started as guitar riffs (played on a bass), a whistle muttered into an old iPhone on a Brussels highway. Others are bass loops, melodies strummed on the family piano and captured on a Zoom handheld. Or ideas borrowed from my children's playlist. These tracks have been waiting for this moment and now they're here. All at once, BANG!

This is also a tribute to every musician I've played with, learned from and still love. It’s also a big thank-you to friends, critics, mentors and passersby who all made me the musician I’m today. They shaped my journey. Carried me here.

This is a very carefully considered list of people. I'm proud to know them.

• Pascal Seys, Sofie Messens, Vos - FTD
• The Dirty Scums - being Belgian scum for 154 years
• Hans Deduytsche - M.O.P. (Mistress Of Pain)
• Christophe Depree - & his brothers (After All)
• Peter Bultinck - natural born performer & musician
• Rik Vanbiervliet (RIP), Geert Serreyn (Blacksmith V1)
• Marcus Weymaere, Viktor Vyncke (Blacksmith V2)
• Jan Ducheyne, Serge Feys, Sébastien Dewaele
• Kristof Maes - Closed Session Recording Studio
• Laurens Gozin - my rehab in music.
• Sarah Vantorre - aka Girl!
• Serge Verlinde - the human metronome!
• My wife, letting me be a child for 30 years
• My brother from whom I stole my first Fender P-bass.

For the slow-witted (the real dumb-f*s) among us, these tracks aren't finished products. This is working material, raw sketches meant to be developed with a band.

Am I actively looking for musicians? Sure! People who want to dig into this material, shape it together. Make it ours. If you hear something in these tracks, if you feel the space between the notes: REACH OUT! Let's make music together.

Yeah, the vocals are AI. As a placeholder. A scaffolding. Because I'm not done — I'm looking for the real band. The riffs are mine. The bass is mine. Thirty years of music is mine. The AI sang it so you could hear what it's supposed to become. That's not AI music. That's a demo with ambition.

Here's the Space Princess Journey in chronological story order:

1. Wrong Turn (short)
2. Ultraviolet Horizon
3. Ride to the Unicorn
4. Marauder Dust
5. Roaring Spaceship Engines (short)
6. Violet Crown
7. Dark Matter Hideout
8. Band of Brothers
9. Antares Throne
10. Pulsar Drive (short)
11. Ballad of the Violet Princess
12. Wormholes Rayguns
13. Beyond the Wormhole
14. Secret Handshake

©1990 - 2026 Yannic Kermarrec | All music, lyrics, compositions, bass, arrangements and production: Yannic Kermarrec. 30 years of work. Vocals: AI-assisted placeholder / this is working material looking for real musicians to make it ours.

Official release: https://vi.be/platform/kermarrec

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF4UOvi8arTiPeWjt9JXpiPB2ndtvJ5Oe

BANDCAMP: https://kermarrec.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-space-princess-saga

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/yannic-kermarrec-be/sets/ultraviolet-space-princess-saga

Contact: 0478938282 / yannic@kermarrec.be