To vocalist/bassist Mariusz Duda, his band is much more than a vehicle for his own creativity. To him, Riverside stands for a deep awareness of life, a specific kind of thinking, feeling and acting. Which is why he aptly characterises his band as a “new generation of progressive music”, although his more detailed description culminates in a clearly more poetic choice of words: “Riverside is a way of expressing reflections, dreams and fantasies through music”, he explains, adding: “It’s a concept of revealing emotions, an escape from a grey or unnaturally, excessively coloured reality. It is a music inspired by a particular moment, a place, a thought, or a word, a figment of our own and other people’s imagination. It’s joy and sadness, a whisper and a scream.” All these emotions become apparent on Rapid Eye Movement, the band’s current release and part three of a trilogy that started in 2003 with Out Of Myself and continued two years later with the sensational Second Life Syndrome.