Hello everyone, it’s your host Faithfulness, and today I have with me Ephemera Veil from Bratislava, Slovakia. Ephemera Veil is here to share more insight into her musical journey while diving into her debut album, “MomentuM,” released on August 1, 2025. The album introduces listeners to a deeply personal and atmospheric body of work built on honesty, reflection, and musical exploration. Through expressive piano lines, delicate guitar textures, and emotionally driven songwriting, “MomentuM” creates a cinematic listening experience that balances vulnerability with artistic freedom. With themes centered around personal choice, reflection, acceptance, and emotional growth, the project invites listeners into a world that feels intimate, thoughtful, and emotionally immersive.
Welcome, Ephemera Veil. Before we begin our interview, here is what you need to know about this fascinating artist. Ephemera Veil is the solo project of Alexandra Cisárová, pianist and singer of the band Tisíc Viet. Her debut album “MomentuM” was produced alongside guitarist Jimi Cimbala, whose delicate guitar work adds depth and atmosphere to the project’s piano-driven foundation. Before launching Ephemera Veil, Alexandra first entered the music scene through YouTube, where she shared piano renditions of songs by Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and other influential artists. Over time, she developed a distinctive musical identity rooted in emotional honesty, unusual harmonies, shifting rhythms, and reflective storytelling.
For Alexandra, “MomentuM” represents a celebration of freedom and personal choice, whether impulsive or carefully considered, while also embracing responsibility, reflection, and acceptance. Across eleven tracks, the album mirrors inner thoughts and life experiences through memorable melodies, atmospheric arrangements, and evolving emotional textures. Alexandra explains that unusual harmonies, rhythmic experimentation, and contrasting musical patterns are essential to expressing the changing moods and complexities of life itself. With its balance of emotional vulnerability and artistic ambition, “MomentuM” stands as a compelling introduction to the world of Ephemera Veil.
Having this brief Introduction, I’m sure new and current fans must be excited about our Interview today.
INTERVIEW
Faithfulness: Ephemera Veil is a deeply expressive and atmospheric identity. What was the exact moment you realized Alexandra Cisárová needed to exist in this form beyond your earlier work with Tisíc Viet?
Ephemera Veil: It wasn’t really about a clear moment or a need to exist in any form. At that time, I wasn’t even sure if I was capable of creating my own music. I knew how it felt to make piano covers and to contribute piano parts to our band’s songs, and that felt amazing, but I wanted to experience the full creative process, starting from nothing but my own idea.
Faithfulness: Your first musical presence came through YouTube piano renditions of bands like Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. How did that grunge influence quietly shape the emotional language you still use today?
Ephemera Veil: The sound of my music is different, but the inspiration is definitely there. It’s not only grunge, but also classical music, prog rock/metal. I’ve always tried to keep my writing process without overthinking it. Whatever was in my head at the time came out freely in the form of songs. Grunge is raw, expressive, and naturally poetic rather than polished, and that’s something I’ve always connected with.
Faithfulness: Piano is central to your expression, but your music also feels cinematic and reflective. When did you first understand that your playing wasn’t just performance, but storytelling?
Ephemera Veil: I’ve always enjoyed talking through the piano. Sometimes it’s easier for me to express something this way than with words. In my piano covers, I often included vocal melodies in the arrangements, and some listeners said they could almost hear the singer singing the lyrics when listing to my playing. That’s when I realized it was not just performance.
Faithfulness: Moving from a band environment into a solo identity like Ephemera Veil often shifts perspective. What part of your artistic voice became clearer only after stepping into this solo space?
Ephemera Veil: I recorded my first demo not long after I started playing with the band. They liked it, but the concept and even the language were different, so we decided not to combine it. I was actually recording two albums at the same time. One with the band and one for my solo project. Writing music felt like exploring a completely new universe. But honestly, I felt something similar when I first joined the band as well. In a way, each unique musical experience feels like stepping into a new universe.
Faithfulness: Bratislava carries its own cultural and emotional atmosphere. How has being rooted in Slovakia influenced the way you translate personal reflection into sound?
Ephemera Veil: I grew up in a non-democratic regime where people were shot for trying to leave the country. I was still a child when we fought for freedom, and I witnessed how difficult it was for people to truly understand what freedom means. Many still expect the system to take care of them after they make mistakes or bad decisions. But freedom comes with responsibility and the ability to accept the consequences of our choices. Without that, people often turn to populism, which has been quite damaging for Slovakia. I think this is one of the reasons why the theme of freedom is so important for me.
Faithfulness: “MomentuM” feels like an emotional journey between Mountain and Mighty River. How did these two natural forces begin to define the conceptual spine of the album?
Ephemera Veil: The mountain represents a static starting point and the courage to take an unexplored path. The intro is divided into two parts. The first evokes climbing the mountain, and the second captures the feeling of flying into the unknown. The mighty river, constantly in motion, feels like a silent observer of all these experiences and adventures. It may, or may not offer answers at the end of the journey.
Faithfulness: You describe the album as a celebration of freedom and personal choice. Was there a specific life moment that made that theme impossible not to explore?
Ephemera Veil: There wasn’t just one moment. It’s something that happens all the time. Even the smallest decisions can shape the future in ways we can’t predict. That’s both fascinating and frightening at the same time. And we can’t go back in time, we can only accept things as they are.
Faithfulness: Across 11 tracks, the piano remains central but never static. How did you approach keeping the instrument emotionally familiar while still allowing it to constantly transform?
Ephemera Veil: I treated the piano as the emotional core of the album, but I approached it differently across the tracks through changes in dynamics, harmony, and structure. Sometimes it’s very minimal and intimate, and other times more layered and expressive. I think that way it can evolve while still feeling familiar.
Faithfulness: Your use of unusual harmonies, slight dissonance, and shifting meters creates tension. How intentional was it to make discomfort part of the album’s emotional truth?
Ephemera Veil: It wasn’t something I planned consciously. I didn’t think about specific chord progressions or calculated meter changes. These elements were already naturally present in my initial ideas, which I first recorded on acoustic guitar with vocals. Later, while developing the songs on piano, I added a bit more dissonances, that’s my favorite thing in music.
Faithfulness: Working with Jimi Cimbala added delicate guitar textures. How did his production influence the emotional direction of “MomentuM”?
Ephemera Veil: I was very lucky to meet Jimi. He immediately understood the atmosphere of the demos, so I didn’t have to explain much. I rarely needed to ask for changes regarding the sound or his guitar work, but when I did, he was always open to it. He doesn’t approach music in terms of right or wrong. He’s open to ideas and recognizes when something simply feels right. It made the whole process very organic.
Faithfulness: The track “Magician” feels like a thought that refuses to settle. What emotional space were you exploring when you wrote something that embraces uncertainty instead of resolution?
Ephemera Veil: Embracing what you have rather than focusing on what you don’t is freeing. Sometimes that means embracing uncertainty, but that doesn’t mean it’s not enough, or that hope should be lost.
Faithfulness: There’s a strong balance between intimacy and cinematic scale in this project. How did you decide when a moment should feel close versus when it should feel expansive?
Ephemera Veil: The album is largely built on contrasts and unexpected shifts in mood. Moving between intimacy and a more cinematic scale was one of the ways to create that contrast and strengthen the emotional impact.
Faithfulness: The album deals with reflection, acceptance, and responsibility. Was there a point during creation where the music itself started revealing answers you weren’t consciously searching for?
Ephemera Veil: Yes, definitely. And not only answers. Sometimes it also revealed questions I had never asked before, which can be just as meaningful, even if without answers.
Faithfulness: Looking back at “MomentuM” as a completed body of work, what emotion do you feel lingers most strongly for you now that it has been released into the world?
Ephemera Veil: It’s a mix of relief, gratitude, and a bit of emptiness. After spending such an intense time with these ideas, it feels strange to let them go. At the same time I’m happy, because no one can take that experience away from me.
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HAVING LISTENED TO ‘MomentuM’, HERE ARE MY HONEST THOUGHTS
Ephemera Veil’s “MomentuM” is a deeply immersive debut that transforms introspection into a cinematic emotional experience through patience, restraint, and remarkable sonic sensitivity. Alexandra Cisárová crafts an atmosphere where piano becomes both narrator and emotional compass, guiding the listener through shifting states of reflection, tension, and quiet release. The album’s minimalist motifs evolve gradually, allowing subtle harmonic changes and ambient textures to carry profound emotional weight without relying on dramatic crescendos. Jimi Cimbala’s delicate guitar work enriches the record’s spacious production, creating luminous layers that feel fluid and organic. Vocally, Cisárová embraces intimacy over force, blending seamlessly into the instrumentation with understated phrasing that deepens the album’s reflective character. What makes “MomentuM” so compelling is its refusal to rush emotion, instead unfolding like memory itself, delicate, unresolved, and constantly moving toward transformation with striking emotional honesty and artistic cohesion.
~ Faithfulness (Dulaxi Team)
Finally to our audience, I urge to listen to “MomentuM“, add it to your playlist and be Inspired by it and on behalf of Dulaxi I like to appreciate you all by saying thank you everyone, See you on our next interview.
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