Artist: Shyfrin Alliance
Lead Single: Buddha Blues
Album: In The Shadow of Time
Release Date: 04/04/25
Shyfrin Alliance launch into 2025 with a new country-blues single “Buddha Blues”, the debut release from their much-anticipated second album In The Shadow of Time. Last year heralded the arrival of the musical project founded by award-winning author, businessman and scientist Eduard Shyfrin and marked him out as a singular talent.
The new single follows the 2024 release of Shyfrin Alliance’s debut album Upside Down Blues, an intoxicating mix of rock, blues and romantic balladry that brimmed with messages of unconditional love and antiwar. Written entirely by Eduard himself and featuring his rich, gravelly vocals, it proved an impressive success, making the playlists on multiple radio stations across the US, UK, France and Germany, and racking up almost half a million streams on Spotify.
The new single Buddha Blues, an enthralling earworm country-blues melody with irresistible guitar licks, piano, hammond organ and a gospel-blues chorus, is a perfect snapshot of the new album which embodies its predecessor’s sense of meaning and purpose as it tackles the complex topic of time.
The album is inseparably influenced by Eduard’s research on Kabbalah information, which can be explored in his Amazon bestseller ‘From Infinity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics’. In The Shadow of Time examines Shyfrin’s work to find new approaches to the notions of God and Time and express them through music and lyricism.
Speaking about his upcoming album, Eduard says, “I’ve chosen a very difficult topic: time. Nobody knows the nature of time. There is no definition. So it was a challenge. I don’t think there exists an album dedicated purely to the topic of time. You will not find such an album. Each song is dedicated to the different aspects of time. That is certainly unique.”
For “Buddha Blues”, that message is time as a healer. It originated when Eduard heard a Miley Cyrus song everywhere he went one summer and told his wife how much he dislikes shallow pop music. He challenged himself to write a meaningful blues song in two minutes and “Buddha Blues” emerged.
Says Eduard, “There was this song I Can Buy Myself Flowers, it was very famous last summer and you could hear it from every corner. I told my wife that this is a song that would not stand the test of time; this season it is popular, the next it’s forgotten. I’m not interested in shallow lyrics. For me the message – the lyric – is very important. So, I sat down and wrote some lyrics, Buddha Blues, to prove I can do it.”
And of course he could. Family members loved the song, praising its philosophical premise.
Says Eduard of the song, “It is about Time as a Healer. “Buddha Blues” is simple: I’m still on my horse, I’m still driving my car, I’m living my life. No worries, no hard feelings. It’s a Buddha’s approach. People misunderstand Buddhism – that you should get rid of your desires, because your desires are the source of your problems. But this is simplistic. Actually, what Buddha said is that you should get rid of your wrong desires.”
Shyfrin Alliance marked a return to the original passion of Shyfrin – music. Classically trained on piano in Ukraine as a child, Eduard embarked on a career in metallurgy and business before a crisis drove him to find more meaning and purpose in life. He started exploring the deep world of Kabbalah and science and published his aforementioned book ‘From Infinity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics’. Some years later, he returned to playing music, and his radically changed mindset, research and life experience culminated in Shyfrin Alliance.
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