Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis
Label: CONJVRE THE CIRCLE – CTC19
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: USA & Europe
Released: Sep 19, 2024
Style: Experimental, Dark Ambient, Darkwave

Composed, recorded and arranged by Philippe Blache (alias « Day Before Us ») in Dole, from early to July 2024.

«Tristitiam et metus tradam portare ventis» (I will give the sadness and fear to the winds) is a straightforward emotional journey based on brooding, lush, meditative and evanescent piano lines then moody-esque and tense cinematic atmospheres for sweeping electronic textures.
Hints of noisy harshness comes out as grey clouds where graceful elegiac tones are trying to escape from. Philippe Blache is a sound artist and a cultural anthropologist found of electro acoustic research with an approach in ethno-musicology, in dark literary romanticism and in mystical spiritualism. He is the founder of the ethereal-neoclassical dark ambient project «Day Before Us», active since 2011. «Tristitiam et metus tradam portare ventis» is his third soloing effort. Recommended for those who enjoy tempestuous, epic and emotional vastness with a gothic-tinged accent and a devotional melodious catharsis.

Composed By, Arranged By, Piano, Organ, Electronics – Philippe Blache
Edited By – Jared Nokturne
Mastered By – Giuseppe Verticchio
Narrator – Maria Labuena, Pauline Poirel
Photography By – Natalie Ina, Vaida Petrauskaite

→ Day Before Us ‎– Ode A La Nuit D’Ombre
→ The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief by Philippe Blache
→ Day Before Us – Misty Shroud Of Regrets
→ Day Before Us ‎– Prélude à l’âme d’élégie
→ Day Before Us ‎– Nihil Interit
→ Day Before Us ‎– Adorned path of Stillness
→ Day Before Us / Nimh – Under Mournful Horizons

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