Insomnia is my first album, recorded in an empty café during the Christmas holidays. I had lots of fun layering voices and instruments, the room resonated well and I could use the grand piano. Each track has a corresponding drawing that you can find further down, a tradition I now pursue with the Umbi artworks. It was a time of spiritual wonders and difficult heartbreaks, giving this first take a deeply nostalgic feel. It marks my life's introduction to the numinous, far from the rigid programs of my youth, and its theme is the night: boundless universes, stellar openings, swirling galaxies. The cosmic lover that I was, represented by my Nebulon character on the cover, was still up there at the time, not quite incarnated, not knowing he was about to dangerously crash on a beautiful planet. That's why the lyrics are very much about love stories and spacetime, rather than the natural Gaian metaphors that appear in the next album.

–  Released on January 13^th, 2013  –

All music, lyrics, and recordings of Insomnia are written, performed, and owned by Jimmy Joël Guye-Dumoulin.
©℗ 2013 – Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Special thanks to Pierrick, Adrien, Adélaïde, Marie, Fanny, Laura, Nolwenn, Mathilde, Lucie, Yoan, Antoine, Mélina, Fenosoa, Willdy, Florian, Françoise, Yeshua, Eagle, my family and many others for their inspiration, support and enthusiasm. Instruments include voice, acoustic guitar, piano, melodica, harmonica and synthesizer. Recorded at Café Le Baryton, Lanton, France.