‘Odd literature, ghostly presence, angelology’–things from which Philippe Blache claims inspiration for his ‘antipop-cinematic-nocturnal-melancholic soundscapes’ as Day Before Us; ‘solemn soundscaping ritualism, dada-esque hypnopedies and soundtracky ambiences,’ visible variously on Petroglyph, Kadaath, Cathedral Transmissions, and Rage in Eden, including a collaboration with Nimh.
Adorned Path Of Stillness, is a sixth Day Before Us, the second to feature Natalya Romashina’s vocals and lyrics augmenting Blache’s instruments and electronics, refining pursuit of introspective crepuscular textures, invoking neo-romanticism, lunar mysticism and lyrical sound language. The duo infuses haunting instrumentals with an affecting lyrically-mediated melancholia, visually pointed by photographer of ‘abandoned places,’ Justyna Orlovska. Sombre figures, robed in colors of Blache’s predilection for all things neo-gothic–iconographic, sonic and textual–ghost through tenebrous spaces, draped with veils of tears in a solicitously crafted work that admits a stylistic balance between timeless metaphysical poetry, avant-folk, neo-classical and electronic-inflected wintry dark ambient textures.
Attended by an atmosphere of solemnity and nocturnal mystery primed to lure listeners in search of spiritual plenitude, designed to seduce seekers after transcendence, Day Before Us brings to the fore poetico-musical forms of classical cadence with embellishments inducing the slowest pace of existential introspection. Its cinematic poetry invokes ‘the everlasting power of ancient time which saves us from the amnesia of everyday life.’
Adorned Path Of Stillness is available from Twilight and GH Records (limited edition) or digital.
