Day Before Us

Work in progress

// semiclassical soundtracky ambient meets melodious sound lyricism //

Line up :

Philippe Blache – Composition, acoustic piano, organ, guitar, sampled textures, electronic devices

Eufrosyne Papamihalopoulou – Composition, vocals, poetries and arrangements

Thanks to Maria Louceiro for the photograph

Currently in progress this work will attempt a symbiosis of acoustic microtonal figures with stylistic forms of sound lyricism and processed looped textures. With a certain sense of mystery, tension and melancholy as well as with a strongly emotional cinematic shape, the music will try to reflect, approach and translate into words and sound-colors the introspective search on the immaterial expression of beauty. Outside of Day Before Us’ soloing early experiments and regular musical forma, this effort will announce a musical chemistry between two sound-creators in a heavenly ambient style. Philippe will be responsible of the instrumental side while Eufrosyne will lead vocal explorations in between neo-folk, poetical recitatives and operatic qualities.

6th May 2013 | 1 note

PODCAST : https://soundcloud.com/its-just-music-baby

2nd May 2013 | 2 notes

(Summer) Forthcoming album

/// Day Before Us /// Rage in Eden Records /// June Large cd edition /// When dark cinematic ambient and acoustic minimalism collides /// Xiu will be featured as guest vocalist on the self-title track /// photographs by Yulia Kazban

At the distance this forthcoming album is a resolutely dark ambient neoclassical release but from a closer listening it defies the canonical schemas of genre . The musical argument reaches a synthesis and an harmonious musical conversation between consonant acoustic minimalism and warmly nostalgic emotional ambiences with a great sense of romanticism and experimentalism.

10th Apr 2013 | 4 notes

Day Before Us – “Autumnal wandering” [CD + Digital, Cathedral Transmissions Records]

http://cathedraltransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/autumnal-wandering

Feat. Philippe Blache, Markus Pape and Aëla Labbé

Vid photo: David Newlyn for Cathedral Transmissions

29th Mar 2013

http://luxatenealibros.blogspot.fr/search?q=day+before+us

Day Before Us reviews on the spanish LuxAtenea Webzine /// Specialised in independant-underground goth culture (music, cinema and philosophy) and more

4th Mar 2013

Nostress netlabel volume 2 – “The Astounding Fair” [March 3, 2013] / Feat. Day Before Us’ unreleased track’s “Aurorean”. http://www.nostressnetlabel.net/NN_Comp002_03_13.html https://soundcloud.com/daybeforeus/daybeforeus-aurorean

22nd Feb 2013 | 1 note

NEW album “Autumnal Wandering” [023 C/T]. Release date: 24 february 2013. Imaginary soundtrack and conceptual album inspired by the German poetical “weltschmerz”. 45 hand-made copies available at “Cathedral Transmissions”.Feat. Philippe Blache, Markus Pape and Aëla Labbé. http://www.cathedraltransmissions.com/

5th Feb 2013

NEW free digital album « Hallowed streams of oblivion » published by Petroglyph Music netlabel. An imaginary soundtrack within the cold realms of acedia [Feb.2013]

3rd Feb 2013

Day Before Us - “Autumnal Wandering”. CT 23 45 copies. Digipak photograph sleeve with 7 different photographs by Aëla Labbé. OUT MID-FEBRUARY at: http://cathedraltransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/autumnal-wandering

22nd Dec 2012

Score especially written for Jana Brike’s last animation. Shown at Preview Berlin art fair / animate Festival “Ritorno all’Alba / Back to Sunrise, Rome, 2012. http://www.janabrike.com/

14th Dec 2012

winter Lmtd edition cd

Upcoming Day Before Us Cd release just been mastered. Thanks to Giuseppe Verticchio. Featuring Philippe Blache on compositional writting, piano, organ, Markus Pape (M@p) on vocals, electronics and confirmed Aëla Labbé for the visuals. The musical identity will be turned to cinematic soundscaping ambiences, partly acoustic / electronic with a bunch of field recordings, plaintive tones, tearful elegiac airs and blurry chordal darkness. The album is conceptually based on the german poetical welstchmerz.Out this winter on Cathedral Transmissions.