I spoke to Epica guitarist Mark Jansen ahead of the release of Epica's new album, The Quantum Enigma. I also took the opportunity to ask him about his other band, Mayan. Your new album, The Quantum Enigma is due to be released at the start of May. First of all can you tell us where theI spoke to Epica guitarist Mark Jansen ahead of the release of Epica's new album, The Quantum Enigma. I also took the opportunity to ask him about his other band, Mayan. Your new album, The Quantum Enigma is due to be released at the start of May. First of all can you tell us where the title came from? The Quantum Engima means in quantum physics, when you observe little particles, by oberving you influence things. So as we are made out of little particles ourselves, we can ask ourselves the question, what does the world look like if we are not observing it? If we have a direct influence on what we see, what would it be like if we did not observe in any way. You can really philosophise about this question for a long time, and also what is reality and what is an illusion. All the lyrics, especially the title track of course, but all the lyrics are in a way involved in this topic. I suppose it also applies to concerts – how would a band perform without the audience observing and influencing them? Yes. That also would not be the same, because we need [...]
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