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Changer is an Icelandic death metal / metalcore band, formed in 1999. The band has released three albums and two EPs.
Changer was founded in October 1999 in Akureyri, Iceland, by drummer Kristján B. Heiðarsson, as a one-man project. Kristján wrote and recorded the band's first album, January 109, in January 2000. The recordings were handled by his friend Aðalsteinn Már Björnssson, who soon after was killed in a car accident. The album was released on February 29, 2000.
In May 2000, Kristján moved to Reykjavík and started assembling a full band. A full line-up was established in late 2000. Changer began playing gigs in Iceland in 2001, and traveled to Akureyri in the spring to record an EP, Inconsistency, which consisted of two new songs along with reworkings of two songs from January 109; it was released in July 2001.
Recording for the next album began in late December 2002, but Scenes was not released until February 13, 2004.
In 2005, Changer played overseas for the first time, at Nevelfest in Antwerp, Belgium. Shortly after coming home again, major line-up changes took place in the band.
Don Juan (Spanish, or "Don Giovanni" in Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630. Evidence suggests it is the first written version of the Don Juan legend. Among the best known works about this character today are Molière's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre (1665), Byron's epic poem Don Juan (1821), José de Espronceda's poem El estudiante de Salamanca (1840) and José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio (1844). Along with Zorrilla's work (still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 (with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.
Dans cet hôtel je passe purgatoire tranquille
Couché dans la réception
Comme échoué sur une île
Seul, sans lumière
Sans toi mes draps de lit
Sont des tapis de poussière
Hamlet cherche ophélie
Mes yeux pleurent des rivières
Mots d'amour d'éphémère
Changement de cavalière
Tu croises un peu trop les jambes
Pour moi petite vierge
J'ai de sale pensée
Brûle un cierge dans ton coeur
Je brûle d'une autre manière
Le chemin le plus court
De la mort à la vie
C'est l'amour
Changement de cavalière
Changer de peau
Changer de vent
Comme un oiseau
Comme un serpent
Changer de main
Et de regard
De jour qui vient
De train qui part
Changer de pluie
Changer de boue
Changer de vie
Changer de tout
Changer de vent
Changer de peau
Serpent oiseau
Cette mue d'ouragan
Là sur ta bouche vermeille
La hure du volcan
Dans le dragon qui sommeille
Et moi moi que je raye
Le flux dans le miroir
De la lune qui m'appelle
Si je vois dans le noir
C'est parce que la vie est belle
Toute entière
Changement de cavalière