The title of the album is inspired by the Tuesday evening salons hosted by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
Released earlier in July, the EP L'Après midi d'un faune (牧神的午後), also named after a poem written by Stéphane Mallarmé, is the intro to the album.
[1] Although all of the songs were already completed at that time, Qing-Feng Wu didn’t find himself emotionally and circumstantially ready to write the lyrics for these bright-toned pieces.
[5] In terms of content, the 12 songs of the album respectively depicts certain aspects of creation, such as consciousness and subconsciousness, loss and awakening, understanding and encountering, alchemy and experimentation, exploration of real names and traumas, accepting differences and the courage to be different…etc..
In terms of form, Qing-Feng Wu images the album as a salon that gathers 12 musicians as the guests to stimulate and encourage each other to give the music works a brand new look.
The arrangement of the songs embarks on “(......The Little Shepherd)”(……小小牧羊人) as its theme is about consciousness, and ends in “(......Sleeping Beauty)”(……睡美人) that describes the state of unconsciousness.