Three years after SCHATTENSPIELs last album “Aus dem Dunkel” their new opus “Re/Volution” finally has been released. “Re/Volution” marks a big step forward for SCHATTENSPIEL with the addition of Miss Kitty as a permanent band member back in 2014, taking care of all female vocals and therefore adding more variety to the impressive compositions of Sven Phalanx and Lionel Verney. “Re/Volution” combines neoclassical and Dark Ambient influences with hints of Martial Industrial influenced soundscapes while the arrangements of the fourteen songs are outstanding. SCHATTENSPIEL found their unique and distinctive style proving that musical diversity and integrity can not be missed in todays underground culture.
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
Von Thronstahl / The Days Of The Trumpet Call – Pessoa / Cioran Label: Infinite Fog Productions – IF-06 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Russia Released: 2010 Style: Modern Classical, Ambient, Neofolk
Since 1998 year Von Thronstahl, led by the founder and leader Josef M. Klumb, remains to one of most appreciable and interesting groups on martial industrial/neofolk scene. The Days Of The Trumpet Call, it’s neoclassic project by Raymond P., the musician of the Von Thronstahl. This split, is devoted the Portuguese poet Fernando Antonio Pessoa (1888-1935) and Romanian philosopher Emil Michel Cioran (1911-1995), their writings are used as lyric for this album. The melancholic neoclassics from The Days Of The Trumpet Call and probably strangest of all records Von Thronstahl where they balance on border between neoclassics and ambient, with a light touch martial and all the same, beautiful and charismatic, Josef’s Ê. voice…CD is released in 6-pannel Digipak, with design by Federico Salvador(All my faith lost…)
