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The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature
by R. Kuhn

Kuhn's work has stood the test of time. The problem of chronic ennui is one of the most important issues facing our time. A silent malady of the soul traceable back to the Ancient Greeks Kuhn leaves us in no doubt that the apathy and sadness of this malady is not merely the product of our own period - though it seems to be much more pronounced in our own time. Prodigious research, immense stamina, the work took almost ten years to complete. A largely unknown classic. (review by Asphodel, Australia)

http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Noontide-Ennui-Western-Literature/dp/0691063117

Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed.

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!" 

"All the better to eat you up with." 

Several distinguished and not-so-distinguished reviewers all over the globe lavished their clear judgement and words in praising and/or (heavens forbid!) demolishing "The Memory of Dead Romances" ...what amused me more is that they proceeded in their valuable work
absolutely ignoring the booklet with came along with this Demo. Let's chalk it up to the completely black cover - for some people it's no great art, or maybe they believed in a failure of the photocopy machine...those machines must come from hell, anyway. Or maybe they didn't have a clue about whose quote that was, and just didn't want to seem somewhat illiterate.
The Sand graciously recognizes anyway that it's quite a hard guess - unless you're a regular to English literature classes.
The booklet contains a quote from the novel"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. I don't think the book in itself needs any sort of introduction.
I will humbly reproduce that quote below:

"He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical, and in ambergris that stirred one's passions, and in violets that woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the imagination; and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences of sweet-smelling roots and scented, pollen-laden flowers; of aromatic balms and of dark and fragrant woods; of spikenard, that sickens; of hovenia, that makes men mad; and of aloes, that are said to be able to expel melancholy from the soul"


.....There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating-
-people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

A Brief Biography of "The Sand"

The story so far...

I can’t recall exactly when we started playing. To be honest I can’t even recall when I exactly started singing because 10 years have passed since, and we were used to drink heavily. Let’s put it this way: we did what all the other bands did: we played Sex Pistols & Nirvana covers while undergoing a most intense musicians turnover. Our last and most sturdy line-up, The-Band-with-No-Name ( we never chose a name) was born in 1997 just to record a Demo. Thanks to a painful lack of means, it took us a lot to write it down and record it: only at the end of 1998 our five-pieces-demo was ready. Unfortunately, this only recording doesn't give the idea of the powerful impact we were able to create in our best performances, but we are still satisfied about our home made product. Shortly afterwards, the band decided to split, just because each member had to follow their growing everyday engagements.

Here began the “The sand” experiment…

The Present…

…scraped together enough money to buy a computer, I made up my mind to record by myself those songs I’ve been writing for years, but I believed to be too dark to be played by what was basically a rock band. The result was “The memory of dead romances” which mixed dark rock Sisters of Mercy-style to the aggressive Electro dance of The Prodigy, and included a cover of “Transmission” by Joy Division. Sincerely, I've never written songs to be published. I just couldn't avoid to write, play and listen to music. The idea of making a record came after a long while and took me a long time. For this reason the record sounds like a collection of songs made in different periods. That's true: the first version of "Prayers" is dated 1996 and the first of "Chances" 2001.

In "The Memory..." there's a lot of me and a bit of the music I like. "The Sand" was born because I think someone else out there may like stuff like this, and that's all.