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.
Various – Sampler -I- Label: S.XXI – S.XXI-01 Format: CDr, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Greece Released: 2025 Style: Power Electronics, Industrial, Noise, Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental
1 Signatus – Delirious Savagery 2 Crimes Against Flesh And Bone – Skin 3 Soma – Hollow Halls Remain Silent 4 Putrid Purge – Mass Entertainment Centre 5 ဘုရင်– ဆင်များ၏အက 6 H.C.N.– Pain-Climax [dedicated To David Parker Ray] 7 Death Pact International– Operation Al-Aqsa 8 Inner Paradise – Om & Rape [Every Liṅgaṃ Needs A Yoni] 9 T.S.I.D.M.Z. feat. Maxim Mamkin – Out Of Hyperborea 10 Heyvard – The Monster In The Sacred Mountain 11 Infame Esposito – At Times Beyond The Eyes
Compilation of artists that referred in the pages of S.XXI fanzine. Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. The copies № 01-50 are coming with an extra Xerox-printed mini poster [A4 size] in yellow paper.
#01. recorded in April 2024 in Iberia, during a stormy night and under the lobisomem influence. #02. recorded in two sessions in June, at home studio, using Pribor Sport synth, cheap guitar processor, cheap mic, junk box, Oceans 11 reverb, O2 distortion pedal, tape loop cassette and old boombox. Mixed and mastered straight after the final recording session. “Your skin, white tender meat”… #03. recorded in summer 2023, in a moment of deep reflection by Soma [aka David López Saludes]. #04. performed & recorded by Putrid Purge. #05. project’s name & track’s title Romanized: “Monarch – The Dance Of The Elephants”. #06. recorded & mixed in Geräuschkammer IV, Athens / Greece, in 2024. #07. recorded & mixed in an anonymous secret place by units located in Greece, in winter 2023-’24. #08. recorded from 2015/04/29 until 2015/05/05, in Sarki Studio, 33700 Kaski, (Nepal). #09. music, melodies, synths, noises, mix, effects, choirs, lyrics and voice by Sol. M. (Tetsuo aka Uomo D’ Acciaio). Drones, flutes, horns by Maxim Mamkin. Mixed & mastered at Tetsuo Studio by Sol. M. #10. recorded in Hong Kong and released in the album “Heyvard – Dark Tales” [E.C.T. #28]. #11. esposito: whatnots. taz: din doctor.
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
