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Both members of Tempus Cucumis are first and foremost classically trained musicians, despite their frequent separate escapades to other musical genres. In the summer of 2017, they finally joined forces to do something. That something was mainly to have a bit of fun, musical fun too, why not. To make it somewhat interesting we challenged ourselves to write, record and release one song in one day, YouTube video included, and that during the entire summer holidays. They ended up with nine songs, one for each week the holiday lasted. As a bit of extra they tried dethroning Beyonce as queen of pop but unfortunately failed miserably. Since the summer turned out to be so much fun, they also ended up making a tenth track, as a Christmas-day special. They’ve been following this structure ever since. Nine weeks, nine songs; Christmas, one more. To keep things interesting, they happily switched musical genres each year. Ranging from singer-songwritery stuff to prog, industrial classical music, Lied, film music and back to prog this year.

During the pandemic they did their very first Livestream performance and got some nice feedback, mainly along the lines of: “real nice, why not try and do something serious with it?” and that’s exactly what they tried to with their album The Story of C and the Lowering Skies.

The Story of C and the Lowering Skies (2022), Rêves (2023), their single The Axe Drops (2024), and their EP Alptraum (2025) are available on all popular streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, as well as Bandcamp & Soundcloud.