With the Kabbalah influenced project the motto Music of the Mystic, Mystics of the Music is at the forefront of The Shyfrin Alliance project.

Shyfrin Alliance return with In the Shadow of Time, the much-anticipated second album from the ground-breaking musical project founded by award-winning author, businessman and scientist Eduard Shyfrin.
It follows on from the success of their 2024-released debut Upside Down Blues, which made the playlists on radio stations across the US, UK, and Europe, racked up half a million streams on Spotify, and marked its writer as a singular talent. In the Shadow of Time expands Shyfrin Alliance's extraordinary musical and lyrical alchemy: thrilling blues rock, Eduard's distinctive authoritative bass voice, and his quest to push the boundaries of scientific and philosophical concepts.

On In the Shadow of Time, the artist takes a fearless step onto a little-trodden path: the complex topic of time.

"I don't think there exists an album dedicated purely to the topic of time," Eduard says. "You will not fi nd another album like this. My principle is I may always be afraid to enter new areas, but I will always enter them."

Each of the seven blues-rock songs of this second album - recorded, like his debut, with top rock musicians from France at Paris studios Barillet, Ferber and Grand Armee - is dedicated to diff erent aspects of time and how we tackle it. The theme is a continuation of Eduard Shyfrin's extensive studies of the deep world of Kabbalah and science, the subject of his Amazon bestselling book 'From Infi nity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics'.

Classically trained on piano in Ukraine as a child, and brought up on jazz classics, Eduard embarked on a career in metallurgy and business before a crisis drove him to find more meaning and purpose in life, and led him to explore Kabbalah and science.

Already, Shyfrin Alliance have shared one new single from the record, 'Buddha Blues' - an enthralling and uplifting ear worm blues-rock melody with irresistible guitar licks, piano, hammond organ and a gospel-blues chorus. Its message? A Buddhism-inspired one of time as a healer.

In the Shadow of Time was yet more challenging to make than the debut album; the unique subject was intense, probing, intangible.

"Because time is the most mysterious entity," Eduard explains. "Nobody knows the nature of time, there is no defi nition. It's hard to cope with time because we don't understand what it is, and why it should be the end point of certain stages. When you realize you cannot escape time, that is difficult."

The title track imagines time as an ominous figure controlling us mortals, a dramatic soundscape of rolling drums and threatening bass baritone portraying the feeling of torment as Eduard grapples with time's unfathomable nature. He compares its unrecognisably mysterious forms to an abstract expressionist painting such as by the artist Jackson Pollock, because "we don't know who is there. It's a great mystery. Who is this pushing us to do something, when we are in the shadow of time? He's shapeless."

Not that Eduard would relish taking on a topic that was anything other than challenging. "All my research on Kabbalah and science is challenging. There is no other author on this topic. We cannot provide the fi nal answers - that's not realistic on such a diffi cult and unique topic. But we shouldn't stop searching."

In the Shadow of Time may be a bold enterprise, but the more you delve in, the more you are drawn into its captivating world.

"I'm not writing pop music, or rap. I'm not a typical artist," he says, referring also to his lack of stage performances and Instagram posts. "But people like it. Self-expression and composing is a radically new era for me, and it's interesting that it came at the age of 62. There is a time for everything."