Ombrée “Calvaire”
We start this year with our 40th release, and it comes from our dear old friend from France.
Rooted in the sonic weight of doom metal and shaped through electroacoustic studio techniques, Ombrée crafts a guttural meditation. “Calvaire” marks a transmutation, the instant a body fails, drowned in fragmented visions.
Hallucinations, blurred memories, and then, only silence, only the unknown. Captured in the confines of an old stone house, the recordings were made through three different amplifiers & cabinets before being assembled and warped onto magnetic tape.
The material was then reshaped in the studio and blended with field recordings, resulting in an icy, precise, massive sound.
“He would have hated this music.
My father died on February 2, 2025. As I said my last goodbye to him, the tolling bells of the village church echoed in my mind, and a composition began to take shape.
This album is my response to his death. In mourning, my emotions gave way to a musical rendering of a threshold, the transition between life and death.
The emergence of animals and environmental apparitions – the death knell that rang at the village church marking my father’s passing, the howling of foxes at night, the slithering of worms and the wails of peacocks – became omens, weaving the narrative of this record.”
– Ombrée
Ombrée is a musician based in the French countryside. Working primarily with bass guitar, along with electric guitar, field recordings, and reel-to-reel tape machines, he forges compositions steeped in doom, drone, and noise metal.
www.s-ombree.fr
Released in three formats:
CD / Cassette / Download
Listen to the whole album and order your copy here:
https://ishallsinguntilmylandisfree.bandcamp.com/album/calvaire