Sprawling and entrancing walls of sounds, lapping waves of noises, sinuous e-guitar motifs, ruminating drones, processed cathedral-ish chorus, engulfed church organ patterns to impulse a massive cathartic experience or giving the idea of longing through the river styx.
Sprawling and entrancing walls of sounds
French sound producer Philippe Blache has spanned a little more than a decade of music under the moniker of Day Before Us, delivering daunting, alluring and hymnic post-industrial soundscapes with a subtle lyrical-neoclassical tendency. This trajectory has culminated with the 10 years anniversary album As My Spirit Wanders Free back in 2021. Across the Silence and the Shade is his second full length solo effort, marking a slight departure from his piano-based ethereal path and utterly dark sense of melodicism of Day Before Us in favor of sprawling and entrancing walls of sounds, lapping waves of noises, sinuous e-guitar motifs, ruminating drones, processed cathedral-ish chorus, engulfed church organ patterns to impulse a massive cathartic experience or giving the idea of longing through the river styx.
The spiraling foggy sense of mournfulness we can appreciate on the album The Ever Sounding Sea of Grief (reviewed on Igloo) also represents the stylistic and poignant vibrancy of this new effort. A feeling of dreary religiosity and abundant melancholy are conveyed in this album of otherwordly sceneries. This is published as a beautifully crafted limited Digipak CD edition by Mahorka Records. Featuring Pauline Poiret, Darina Levandovksa on sparse vocals / recitatives, and Joan Llopis Doménech for the graphical artwork.
Across the Silence and the Shade is available on Mahorka. [Bandcamp]
