Phurpa – Ya Tog Rid Pa’i Gyer Label: Zoharum – ZOHAR 145-2 Format: 2 × CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: Poland Released: 03 Jul 2017 Style: Overtone Singing, Drone, Experimental
This double album is the successor to the previous release entitled “Chöd” from nearly a year ago. The new release shows how Phurpa constantly transforms itself through their own musical exploration as well as personal spiritual development. Apart from intensive concerts, its members are famous for their long meditation trainings/sessions. This constant movement, the exploration of various techniques and discovering new inspirations in eastern culture makes Phurpa musicians more and more eager to use traditional instruments in addition to their distinctive “rgyud-skad” singing, thus enriching the already familiar formula. By emphasizing the sacred and spiritual nature of their activity, they seek to enrich it in such a way that the listener can find the novum, bearing in mind that not only the aesthetic but very spiritual world of the ancient deities of the Bön tradition is particularly important. The title, referring to the magical quest for the universe, should set the direction for the interpretation, or be merely a pretext or an invitation to this mystical journey.
hibalba / Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Yang Trol Lé Label: Nihilward Productions – NAUGHT27 Format: CD, Limited Edition Country: Ukraine Released: 05 Apr 2017 Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental
«Yang Trol Lé» is merging the primordial energies of Shibalba / Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-khar into the physical manifestation of a limited digipack CD edition, featuring new artwork & three songs from each act, with a total play time of 50 minutes.
Tracklist:
1. Shibalba – Mantras of the Lotus-Eyed God 2. Shibalba ft. Of Earth And Sun – Anantashesha 3. Shibalba – Hymn To The Climbing Scarab 4. Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Samantabhadra 5. Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Shama 6. Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Sangye Menla
Having its inspiration in tibetan spirituality & other ancient aesthetics, the union between Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar offers a transcendent ritual experience for supporting the path to the natural liberation of the soul.
Alone In The Hollow Garden: chanting, throat singing, amplified strings, kantele, metal percussion, kangling, mey ney & pungi flutes, damaru, rol-mo, tibetan bells & gongs.
Shibalba – Nekrologie Sinistrae (Orchestra Noise Opus I) Label: Agonia Records – ARCD212 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: Poland Released: 02 Oct 2020 Style: Industrial
Shibalba is a project whose main focus is set on expressing shamanic, trance-like music, by the use of ethnic instruments and musical technics peculiar to religious rituals. The new album «Nekrologie Sinistrae (Orchestral Noise Opus I)» for the first time introduces industrial elements to the band’s sound.
The new album was recorded, mixed and mastered by George Emmanuel (Lucifer’s Child/ex-Rotting Christ) at Pentagram Studio in Greece. Giacome Del Po’s painting «At The Gates Of Hell» graces the cover artwork.
Alongside traditional instruments (such as Tibetan horns & singing bowls, bone & horne trumpets, darbukas, ceremonial bells & gongs or percussion instruments made of bones and skulls) the band incorporates contemporary synthesizers and guitar drones. The music is richly detailed and multidimensional, while its outcome is deep, unsettling and subconscious, offering an otherworldly voyage.
Kazeria – Liber Corvus Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 116CD, Twilight Records – TW 1.99 Format: CD, Album, Enhanced Country: Argentina Released: 10 May 2012 Style: Dark Ambient, Military, Neo-Classical
This album was conceived as a rite of passage from dusk to the deep night of the Spirit to reach the fullness of the Gnosis.The Crow guides the neophyte through the Four Hymns to achieve transmutation in the Midnight Sun, which is the Morning Star as a symbol of a new Golden Dawn. The edition was inspired by the thelemic works of Frater Perdurabo (the great Aleister Crowley) the medieval mysticism, hermetic symbols and heathen wisdom. The album contains four dark ambient songs representing the rites of Liber Corvus and a video-ritual directed by Diego Arandojo, that emphazises on the main theme of the work
Philippe Blache – The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief Label: Triple Moon Records Format: CD, Album Country: France Released: 2023 Style: Dark Ambient, Neo-Classical, Neo-Romantic
REISSUE OF A RELEASE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY GH RECORDS, 2022 with new package and alternative artwork. Ecopack CD ltd.
« The ever sounding sea of grief » is a cathartic and spiritually uplifting musical journey. Partly abandonning the lyrical component which was central in previous releases of his musical project «Day Before Us» Philippe Blache introduces here a slight new stylistic turn. This album makes incursions within the world of avant gardism, noise ambient and modern classical minimalism with a subtle cinematic edge. It can be appreciated as a purging ritual mainly built around harrowing reverb piano key, blackened skies of droney textures, then majestic organ patterns within a foreboding sonic spectrum. Those lengthy tracks feature additional arrangements as spoken words.. «The ever sounding sea of grief» is a thrilling and colossal poetical/musical drama of overwhelming expressive intensity.
Philippe Blache (Day Before Us) / Concept, All instruments & electronics Olga Gabris / Narratives Natalie Ina / Photos set
Giuseppe Verticchio / Audio mastering & artwork
Bandcamp removed this work in April 2023, removed all Bandcamp from GH Records without any explanation, 12 years of music removed. To everyone who bought the special edition The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief by Day Before Us or digitally thank you very much for the support.
Otros trabajos de Day Before Us / Other references →
SILICON RELIC – E.B.A.N.I. Drones GH Records– GH 151 CD CD Limited Edition 200 Copies Digipack Dark Ambient, Drone, Industrial
The UFO phenomenon shows a constant tendency to adapt itself to the technological imaginary of the historical period in which it occurs. From the first mechanical forms of the last century, we have progressively reached the current energetic and intangible manifestations, of which the E.B.A.N.I. can be considered the most spectacular and disturbing expression. With the term E.B.A.N.I. are defined a whole series of aerial phenomena, which present characteristics that can be compared in appearance to living beings, in form as well as in movements. Is this perhaps the final adaptation, in the middle of the information age, of a living occult reality that hides behind our technological dream, before its definitive revelation?
«E.B.A.N.I. Drones» is the sound transposition of these celestial apparitions, beyond any will of interpretation of the phenomenon or easy cataloging. A dreamlike and surreal journey between sidereal anxieties and apocalyptic suggestions, in the contemplation of these new angelic legions made of luminous tubular structures and floating liquid metal.
SILICON RELIC is a new Italian industrial drones / dark-ambient project, which aims to describe and portray in music the remains and parodies of the sacred and the spirit in the age of disenchantment. The group – composed of Moreno Padoan and Cristian Luise, active for years in the industrial / experimental scene with various monickers – wishes to return with this project to the origins of the genre, combining genuine aesthetic and sound research with a solid conceptual and philosophical approach.
:DI NUOVO RICERCA: :DI NUOVO PENSIERO:
SILICON RELIC “E.B.A.N.I. Drones” 1. Flotilla 2. Skyworm 3. Tubolar Coil 4. Radiating Spheres 5. Living Geometries 6. Triangular Ascension 7. Bio-Glow 8. Floating Liquid Metal 9. Fragments Of Light
SILICON RELIC: Moreno Padoan Cristian Luise
All Sonic Apparitions & Psychic Clots Cought in 2021 (II PE).
:DI NUOVO RICERCA: :DI NUOVO PENSIERO:
«E.B.A.N.I. Drones es un disco deslumbrante. No solo por su planteamiento conceptual, sino también por su ejemplar exposición.
Silicon Relic es un dúo italiano conformado por Cristian Luise y Moreno Padoan, dos nombres que a pesar de ser poco conocidos dentro de este género, no cabe duda de que saben hacer bien lo que se proponen.
El combo ha decidido centrar el planteamiento de este álbum en el desarrollo acústico de la vida fuera de nuestro planeta, algo que está lejos de ser novedoso dentro de los recursos temáticos experimentales, pero no por ello desechable a la primera sugerencia. Y cierto es que este par de italianos han sabido aportar un toque particular dentro de los planteamientos acústicos que presentan, desarrollando unos contextos sonoros cargados de belleza, oscuridad, complejidad y hieratismo» NOmelody Magazine
Donbass 4 The Dead Won’t Forget Label: ЭЛЕКТРОИНДУСТРИЯ Format: CD, Compilation Country: Russia Released: Mar 20, 2023 Style: Abstract, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, Hardcore, Industrial, EBM
Brothers and sisters, we present to you our fourth international compilation – Donbass 4 «The Dead will not forget».
It, like the second and third collections, is dedicated to our holy war with the Western forces of Evil.
We hope our collections will help unite all patriotic people! Thank you to the participants and God bless you! Victory will be ours!
Read more here about previously published collections here DONBASS
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Tracklist:
1.EugeneKha – Analog Sunrise 06:00 2.GE-STELL & M. PADOAN – Finché Il Sangue Scorrerà 05:21 3.От Юности Моея – Мертвые не забыли (mc Val cover) 03:47 4.Nepoj Mikto – Снег и Солнце 02:46 5.ROSA INFRA – Ветеран забытой войны 05:20 6.А.Вишневский – Рояль, скучающий по дому в Макеевке 04:50 7.FIGLIO DEL VEDOVO Feat Kristian Giorgini – Mezzanotte in Donbass 04:26 8.ЕЩЁ – Это русская земля 03:39 9.Вадим Панин vs. F`ART – Девиация 03:35 10.Septimo Romae – Novorossiya, The 4th Rome 04:07 11.Лёша Омский – Тополя 03:04 12.TNP & YBSTN – Ключв305комнате 04:59 13.Константин Сухан – Юг 03:14 14.Купеческий Клад – Русская Весна 03:34 15.Назгулы Боевой Промзоны – Дети рабочих посёлков 03:31 16.Cyclofillydea – Мы в окопах руками подымаем рассвет 07:49 17.MOON FAR AWAY – The Soldiers Of Heeresgruppe Mitte, vers. II 03:43 18.Лопшеньга – Бласлови Меня За Боже 04:55
Ab’bhau – Devastaciones Bajo El Fulgor Del Vacío (Vinyl, 12″) Label: CAVSAS – CS004 Format: Vinyl, 12″, Album, Limited Edition Country: France Released: 25 Feb 2022 Style: Black Metal, Dark Ambient, Doom Metal, Drone
Ab’bhau’s debut album was forged in fire in the year 2018 after mysterious live apparitions and rehearsal sessions. The aim behind this first exploration was void invocation, void materialization.
The project is formed by established musicians of the Spanish underground noise, experimental, and metal scene. Connections to bands and projects like Black Earth, Suspiral, Inhumankind, Phicus, Triple Zero, Gárgara, or Sudaria can be traced.
The ritualistic essence of this artistic incarnation is based upon the rupture of repetitive patterns through improvisation as a medium to convey abject forces into the shape of what the band has called ‘Black Metal Destruktion’, stemming Heideggerian terminology. A form that appears to disappear or to be registered, but impossible to reproduce.
Even though the recordings vary on the album formats, they are the same album, the same whole, the same essence… exhaled through three different forms of sonic manifestation. Artwork by Heresie Studio.
Barbarossa Umtrunk – Devchirmé : Le Tribut Du Sang Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 155 CD Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipack Country: Spain Released: Feb 15, 2023 Style: Industrial, Military, Neofolk
Limited to 100 copies
After 4 years of Silence, BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK is back with à New full lenght album
«Devchirmé : Le tribut du Sang» takes inspiration and pays homage to Janissaries Ottomans troopers, these elite warriors from the balkans trained for war since childhood. Janissaries were connected to Bektashi Sufi Order which were the inheritors of Persian & Arabian Spiritual Chivalry called Futuwah with rites close to Free Masonry and a secret heretic gnosis belief with Shia roots (Twelve Imams Gnostic faith of the Iranians) but also old Tengriism paganism/Turkish Shamanic heritage. Bektashism was also connected with tradition of asiatics bards and trobadors called Ashoks and Alevis heretic community from Anatolia. Historically Janissaries elitist troops were the first to make Martial Orchestral’s battlefield inspired Music. This new album of Barbarossa Umtrunk deserve an hymn dedicated to them with 72 minutes of Balkanik/Turkish Ottoman Martial and ritual music based upon Janissaries elitist troopers from the past, spiritual chivalry (Futuwah), Albania, Shia Gnosis, Alevi/Qilzibah gnostic sects and Anatolian Sufism with mystical lyrics & quotes taken from writes of Alain Santacreu, Rumi, Hadji Bektash Veli, Rudolf Von Sebottendorf and many others declaimed in french language with the well known specific style of Barbarossa Umtrunk. The compositions make by Baron Vonstein with guests T S I D M Z -ThuleSehnsucht In Der MaschinenZeit- Dolorism, Gregorio Bardiniand Sven Phalanx are sometime close to old Der Blutharsch, Karjallan Sissit, T S I D M Z -ThuleSehnsucht In Der MaschinenZeit- or Rukkanor with some oriental/east european influences and vibes who deserves ritual orchestral apocalyptic climates, martial hymns, atmospheric and military pop and even Dungeon Synths , Neo-Classical or Sufis and Tribal influences from the East.
Barbarossa Umtrunk feat. T S I D M Z -ThuleSehnsucht In Der MaschinenZeit- Avataras in Eurasia & «Devchirmé : Le tribut du Sang» Pyrography wooden box, double CD + postcards, exclusive edition
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01 Barbarossa Umtrunk – Yenitcheri EisernFaust (TSIDMZ & Poison Creeper ritual mix) 02 Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Saoshyant’s Inthronisation Act II 03 Barbarossa Umtrunk – Septimia Bathzabbai Zénobie 04 Barbarossa Umtrunk – Yeni Cheri Eisernfaust 05 Barbarossa Umtrunk – L’Aigle Sacré du Caucase 06 Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Für Darya 07 Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Sayful Islam Act II 08 Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Avatara in Eurasia 09 Barbarossa Umtrunk – Make Balkans Great Again
Barbarossa Umtrunk – Yenitcheri EisernFaust (TSIDMZ & Poison Creeper ritual mix) Firstly released in Barbarossa Umtrunk «Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers : La Mission secrète du Baron Sebottendorf» (UFA Muzak, 2012) French Voice by Baron Von S. from Rudolf Von Sebottendorf’s words Music, Composition and Mix by Baron Von S. and Sol. M. Female Voice by Poison Creeper.
Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Saoshyant’s Inthronisation Act II French Voice taken from Henry Corbin «La Philosophie Islamique» Composition, Samples and Instrumental by Baron Von S. First Version was part of Barbarossa Umtrunk «Regnum Sanctum» (SkullLine, 2008) Italian Voice, Rhythmics and Mix by Sol. M. (T.S.I.D.M.Z.) Lyrics freely adapted from «Il Re del Mondo» by René Guénon. Il regno di Agarttha imprendibile, inaccessibile, divenuto sotterraneo più di seimila anni fa, data dell’inizio del Kali Yuga o età nera, l’Età del Ferro degli antichi Occidentali, l’ultimo dei quattro periodi nei quali si divide il Manvantara; la sua ricomparsa deve coincidere con la fine di tale periodo. (x2) La sua ricomparsa deve coincidere con la fine di tale periodo.
Barbarossa Umtrunk – Septimia Bathzabbai Zénobie Music, Composition and Vocals by Baron Von.S. Released at Bunker Alamut, Summer 2022. Lyrics by Hejer «Agar» K. (taken from his poem «Zénobie»). De son vrai nom araméen, Bathzabbai, reine Arabe à Palmyre, l’épouse d’Odenat S’autoproclame impératrice, elle, qui, sans peine, Nomme empereur de Rome son fils Wahballat. Cléopâtre du Levant, son pouvoir s’étend De l’Égypte à l’Anatolie, ébranlant Rome. Régente à l’Est, dotée de la beauté d’Orient, Elle est l’amazone dirigeant une armée d’hommes. Certes, Augusta érige en cité florissante L’oasis palmyrène, qui se voit saccagée Par l’empereur Aurélien. Captive, Septimia Connaît une fin obscure et controversée. Depuis des lustres, sa virilité virginale En fait des patriotes syriens l’égérie. Al Zabba subjugue par son aura martiale Et sa chasteté, inspirant de grands génies. Hejer K.
Barbarossa Umtrunk – Yeni Cheri Eisernfaust Firstly released in Barbarossa Umtrunk «Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers : La Mission secrète du Baron Sebottendorf» (UFA Muzak) Lyrics declaimed in french are partially a Janissarie prayer & hymn to Bektashism.
Allah Allah illallah.
We are blameless. We have our hearts afire.
Our devoting to the Sultan is revealed.
the Three, the Seven, the Forty, the Light of the Prophet
Muhammed, the Beneficence of Ali, our Pir the head sultan Haji Bektash Veli,
let’s say Hu for all of them, Huuuu.
Barbarossa Umtrunk – L’Aigle Sacré du Caucase Music, Samples, Composition & Vocals : Baron Von S. Released at Bunker Alamut, Summer 2022. Lyrics : Hejer «K» Agar ( taken from his Poem «Aigle Sacré de la Oumma») Aigle du Caucase, Shamil El Daghestani, Le sheikh Naqshbandi, fut un héros et un ascète Soufi. Il représente la chevalerie Initiatique, dans sa plus grande pureté. Des savants le surnomment «sixième calife» Tant il porta au pinacle la sainteté Et l’héroïsme islamique, lui, leader rétif À toute mollesse et mujahid sanctifié. Dès sa tendre enfance, pétri de science et de foi, Il garda les troupeaux de moutons familiaux, En son village. Garçon chétif, il fut la proie De jaloux, le battant et blessant au couteau. Dès lors, il se métamorphosa en guerrier Montagnard incomparable. Promu grand savant Et guide soufi, il rejoint la lutte armée, Après son haj, élu suprême combattant. Là où Napoléon, face aux Russes, échoua, Il devint leur plus redoutable résistant, Fédérant les clans caucasiens, par la Sharia. Cette guerre des mourids dura vingt-cinq ans. Shamil Effendi et ses vaillants kshatrias, Si érudits et spirituels, fondèrent Leur théocratie. Versés dans la guérilla, Ils humilièrent la Russie tsariste, si fière. Chef d’État révolutionnaire, il gouverna Son gazanat avec sagesse et charité. Mécène des sages, il créa des madrassas. Charmés, moult chrétiens rejoignirent son armée. Féru de l’amour conjugal le plus sacré, Il irradie le modèle muhammadien. Trahi par ses proches, astreint au traité de paix, Le tsar l’assigne à résidence, avec les siens. Ami de l’Emir Abdel Kader, on l’accueille En grande pompe, où qu’il aille. Faiseur de prodiges, Il est encensé par les Ottomans. Au seuil De Médine, on l’inhume à Baqi, saint cénacle. Hejer K.
Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Für Darya Music, Composition and Mix by Baron Von S. and Sol. M. Voices by: Baron Von S., Sol. M., Darya Platonova Dugina, Hejer «Agar» Ketoura. French Lyrics by Hejer «Agar» Ketoura. À Daria Platonova, notre Hypatie
Chère Daria, que la terre te soit légère. Rose blanche, tu incarnais l’âme de la Grande Russie, lys pur ensanglanté par une bande De malfrats, t’ayant diffamée, avec ton père.
Pétrie des beaux préceptes de ton géniteur, Éclairée par la Tradition, tu appliquais Ses enseignements. C’est, à présent, sous le dais Du Ciel que tu reposes, avant l’ultime Heure.
Telle Hypatie, ton égérie spirituelle, Tu fus nimbée du noble ésotérisme antique, Versée dans le néo-platonisme : de Jamblique À Plotin, toi qui fus docte, noble autant que belle.
Spécialiste en relations internationales, Journaliste hors-pair, politologue, militante Eurasiste et philosophe, tu prônais l’entente Sacrée des fidèles contre l’axe du mal.
Mélomane et dotée de sensibilité Artistique, ayant baigné dans le mysticisme Orthodoxe, tu fus le pont entre Christianisme Et Islam, face au libéralisme enragé.
La douleur et la force de ton valeureux Alexandre nous a bouleversés. N’aie crainte : Ton martyr pour le vrai et le bien sera l’enceinte Qui verra vaincre tous les chevaliers de Dieu.
Barbarossa Umtrunk and T.S.I.D.M.Z. – Sayful Islam Act II Composition, Samples and Instrumental by Baron Von S. First Version was part of Barbarossa Umtrunk «Regnum Sanctum» (SkullLine, 2008) Italian Voice, Rhythmics, Synth-Guitars and Mix by Sol. M. (T.S.I.D.M.Z.) Lyrics freely adapted from Linga-purana. Verso la fine dell’Età oscura i ladri deruberanno i ladri. Gli uomini perbene si ritireranno dalla politica. Nessuno vivrà la durata normale della vita. I riti decadranno nelle mani di uomini senza virtù. Gli uomini si uccideranno l’un l’altro e uccideranno i bambini e le donne. Solo i beni conferiranno il rango. Solo movente della devozione sarà la salute fisica. Solo legame tra i sessi sarà il piacere. Sola via di successo la falsità. I meriti ottenuti in un anno nel Treta yuga potranno essere ottenuti in un mese nel Dvapara, in un giorno nel Kali yuga.
T.S.I.D.M.Z. & Barbarossa Umtrunk – Avatara In Eurasia (Yeni Ceri Mix) Taken from: TSIDMZ – Pax Deorum Hominumque (Old Europa Cafe, 2012) and from: T.S.I.D.M.Z. & Barbarossa Umtrunk – Barbarossa In Der MaschinenZeit (ThuleSehnsucht Production, 2022) Music, Composition and Mix by Baron Von S and Sol. M. (Tetsuo aka Uomo D’Acciaio) Spoken words sample taken from the film: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, directed by Luc Besson, 1999.
Barbarossa Umtrunk – Make Balkans Great Again !!! Music, Composition and Vocals by Baron Von.S. Released at Bunker Alamut, September 2022.
Formed in 2005 as duo of Baron Von S and Ra Kha. Months later the project was joined by G.C. (Gabriel C) and later by Maya M. as well and became a 4-piece. With this lineup Barbarossa Umtrunk recorded «Scontrum Act V» (2005) split. Then, after the departure of Ra Kha in Autumn 2007, the band reborn from its ashes as a duo composed of G.C. and Baron Von S. Then in September 2009, G.C left the band keeping to make music under his solo project called «Effets Secondaires», and Barbarossa Umtrunk became a solo project of Baron Von S (also assisted by his bride Countesse Von S).
Philippe Blache – The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief Label: Triple Moon Records Format: CDR, Album Country: France Released: 2023 Style: Dark Ambient, Darkwave, Electroacoustic, Industrial
Come in ecopack 2 panels with photos by Natalie Ina
« The ever sounding sea of grief » is a cathartic and spiritually uplifting musical journey. Partly abandonning the lyrical component which was central in previous releases of his musical project «Day Before Us» Philippe Blache introduces here a slight new stylistic turn. This album makes incursions within the world of avant gardism, noise ambient and modern classical minimalism with a subtle cinematic edge. It can be appreciated as a purging ritual mainly built around harrowing reverb piano key, blackened skies of droney textures, then majestic organ patterns within a foreboding sonic spectrum. Those lengthy tracks feature additional arrangements as spoken words. As for the last «Day Before Us» album to date the striking visual imagery is provided by forward-thinking artistic collaborator and multi-talented Natalie Ina. «The ever sounding sea of grief» is a thrilling and colossal poetical/musical drama of overwhelming expressive intensity.
Lyrics from Anna Kingsford (1848-1888)
Reeds in the river! reeds in the river! O deep in my heart like the reeds in the river, My thoughts grow in darkness, far down out of sight, And over my life passes shadow and light, Like sunshine and cloud on the breast of the stream, But I sit by the banks of my river and dream, For day after day, they grow silent and strong, –– The reeds of my Syrinx, the reeds of my song! ____________________________
Slowly athwart the grey empurpling heavens The bearded evening clouds swept slowly by With ghostly arms outstretched, and shadowy robes Curling around them; one by one they passed In sad procession, solemnly and still; A crowd of phantoms following to the tomb The fair departed Day. ______________________________
All the sweet odours of silence, that rise Up from the world to the musical skies, And the voice of the waters that swell and sink Speaks through the distance, and dimly I think Of that fathomless ocean of Time and Fate Bearing us onward and on without cess Into the dark mysterious Never, Spirit to spirit, the small and the great Into the Sea of Forgetfulness, The sea that rolls and rolls for ever!
Concept, music and arrangements : Philippe Blache (Day Before Us) Narrative: Olga Gabris Photos artwork: Natalie Ina Mastering: Giuseppe Verticchio
