• CD,  Distribution

    Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis



    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

    → Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis

  • CD,  Distribution

    Common Eider, King Eider ‎– Égrégore


    Common Eider, King Eider ‎– Égrégore
    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR271CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: UK
    Released: 14 Jun 2019
    Style: Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental

    Égrégore is a ritual collaboration between B.S.s. (Common Eider, King Eider) and Arexis (La Breiche, Coume Ouarnede, Stille Volk)… and all of the spirits of the Pyrenees present during those Dark Moon Rituals, wishing to speak.

    Born under May’s New Dark Moon in 2018, born in secrecy, in darkness, in Ritual. Born in a tiny cabin in the Pyrenees of France… Rituals documented late into the night and early morning hours. Voices captured whispering, wailing, lashing out. Bells ring to both banish and invoke. Recorded live using electronics, rocks, antler, branches and voice. Four offerings given as gifts to the black air… the burnt soil… Gifts to the Spirits living in those forests and mountains of the Pyrenees. Dark moon folk magic…

    Housed in a beautiful matte-laminate gatefold ecopak, with visuals prepared by Kevin Gan Yuen (Sutekh Hexen).

  • CD,  Distribution

    The Circular Ruins And Mystified ‎– Fantastic Journey


    The Circular Ruins And Mystified ‎– Fantastic Journey
    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR298CD
    Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
    Country: UK
    Released: 08 Oct 2021
    Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Drone

    «Fantastic Journey» is an homage to writers such as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and other pioneers from the early age of science fantasy.

    Stunningly adventurous dark ambient, dronescapes, pulsing synths, melancholic strings, and exploratory ambient electronica take us on a journey of imagination and ingenuity. Tales are woven of fantastic voyages and feats of scientific endeavour, through subterranean worlds, mysterious unexplored islands, Utopian societies, travels through time, and the farthest reaches of outer space.

    «Fantastic Journey» perfectly encapsulates the wondrous visions of these futuristic writers over the last 150 years. Designed for serious listening and exercising your imagination…

    Originally released in 2013, we are proud to release «Fantastic Journey» on CD-proper for the first time, with an exclusive 10-minute bonus track, taking the intrepid listener on one last marvellous adventure.

    Composed and performed using various samples, synthesizers, and field recordings by Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) and Thomas Park (Mystified).

    Final arrangements and mastering by APK
    Remastered for Cold Spring by Martin Bowes (The Cage)

    Original artwork by DataObscura
    Graphic Design by Abby Helasdottir

    Reviews;

    «The best approach is to take any book from one of these authors of the shelf, sit back in the most comfortable way, and read and play this music. What the musicians are doing here is simply offering nothing less than the best soundtrack for such a thing…reading about Captain Nemo and his submarine at home. With the tones produced in the titular piece, you are below sea level, wondering about the colours below the sea, the rusty vessel and the quiet life below deck… Field recordings are brought to life alter and age and die out again within the electronics these men have at their disposal… I found it very hard to peel myself out of that comfy chair and sit at the desk to commit words to this… hard to stop reading and listening… Another round of this very soon» (Vital Weekly)