2010, In the attic of his grandfather's house, boxes with books were piling up. Rummaging in those boxes, young Nicolas Chapel found DEMIAN by Hermann Hesse. On the highly praised debut BUILDING AN EMPIRE (2008), all ´Demians` stem from the brains of Nicolas Chapel, who played all the instruments himself and produced the record in his own bedroom. The album received a surprisingly positive echo in the press and among his fellow musicians. It's in Normandy, north western France, that he found the perfect place for creating at peace, in a house near the sea. Locking himself up, Chapel once again recorded the album by himself.