Day Before Us – Dim Shores of Eternity Label: Les Nouvelles Propagandes – NP.032 Format: CD, Album Country: France Released: May 5, 2025 Style: Dark Ambient, Dark Electro, Darkwave, Drone, Ambient, Modern Classical
Dim shores of eternity’ celebrates the return of the project «Day Before Us» in duet after a last album released by GH records for its 10th anniversary (2021). Along the years the project was bringing to the fore metaphysical themes and dark romanticized story tellings translated musically by ominous-rumbling electronic atmospheres, sonic experimentations and lyrical-elegiac ascending phrases. This new album honors those main components but with an enhanced sonorous cinematic dramaturgy for eerily fixed moments and sequences of transcendent beauty. Expressive and virtuosic classically trained singing lines by Mariel de Laforé meet Philippe Blache’s gothic infused electronic incantations. ‘Dim shores of eternity’ is a complex, majestic album with multi layer of depths.
Day Before Us – As My Spirit Wanders Free Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH149 Format: CD, Album Country: Spain Released: Jun 22, 2021 Style: Dark Ambient, Darkwave, Drone, Neofolk, Ambient
Prominent act from the post-industrial/minimal electroacoustic scene «Day Before Us» is back with a new significant album, casting elegant solitary hymns and shedding an unconventional gothic inspired mood. The instrumentals and conceptual background are approached and elaborated by Philippe Blache while the sound lyricist Agne Srebaliute takes over the vocal parts. «As my spirit wanders free » is a meticulously blended release which gives a large space to contemplative tones, to poignant melodic phrases and to a thick cloud of emotional meandering textures.
The message behind the album explores existential themes such as soul stirring fragility, blurred-fractured memories and the mystical nature world. «As my spirit wanders free» is a vast, sensient and windy atmospheric opus that directly takes on the emotions of the listener. This album marks the 10 years anniversary of the project. This special edition is accompanied by the unique photographic work of Natalie Ina that matches the musical signature in terms of sheer emotional intensity and stylistic landmark.
Day Before Us is an emotional, ethereal and dark ambient music project formed in 2011 by the piano trained player and composer Philippe Blache. Full length releases have been published by Rage in Eden, Twilight Records, OPN and GH Records. A palette of immersive electronic textures, slowly moving melancholic piano airs, industrial noises, lyrical themes, neoclassical arrangements and discreet experimentations characterize the compositional process and the stylistic inclination. Creative strength of the project comes from reflections on timelessness, memories of a bygone era, romantic spleen and spiritual narratives. Day Before Us occasionally gives live performances and works in the context of intermedia collaborations.
credits
→ Philippe Blache (concept, instruments) → Agne Srebaliute (vocals) → Natalie Ina (photographies/video)
Special edition made only for the Pre-Order. Hand-varnished pyro-engraved wooden box with gold-finish reliefs. All copies are numbered ( Sold Out )
Contents:
→ As My Spirit Wanders Free CD Digipack → Badge → Photographs signed by the artists → Flowers and poetry → Embalming thy melodious tears (Bonus CD)
«Embalming thy melodious tears» can be appreciated as an interlude in the history of «Day Before Us» (alias Philippe Blache). It consists of a collection of previously unreleased and rare pieces from «lost sessions» which covers a period between 2011 & 2020. The musical purpose is built on bewitching emotional tones, whispered poetry with sparse melodious themes of stoic and tragic beauty
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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.
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