Verdaillon, by Saåad

Verdaillon

by Saåad

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PadraigC An incredibly beautiful release with its hushed ambience, organ and field recordings. It exudes reverence! Great cover art photo, Informative release notes. Favorite track: Eternal Grow.

hydnllyd Lovely release, great story behind the recordings but the music speaks for itself x Favorite track: Incarnat I : Subèrn.

Chiaroscuro Wicked Cool stuff! Keep it up!

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	1.	Egregore 02:26
	2.	Marsyas (Ad Lib) 01:31
	3.	The Harvest 07:06
	4.	Incarnat I : Subèrn 03:31
	5.	Opaque Mirror 05:24
	6.	Incarnat II : 1888 02:05
	7.	Eternal Grow 06:00
	8.	Incarnat III : The Invisible Steeple 04:46
	9.	Vorde 07:50

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Descending from the Toulousian post-hardcore scene, Romain Barbot and Gregory Buffier have produced more than a dozen tormented ambient-drone records under the name Saåad, such as the remarkable Deep Float (Hands In The Dark, 2014). Upon invitation of the local Les Orgues festival, giving them access to the Puget organ located in the Church of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade, they composed an original creation that In Paradisum is proud to publish under the form of the album Verdaillon.

Through dynamics of elevation, suspension and tension, Saåad’s music reaches altered states. Consisting of thick patches of sound, it gathers powerful harmonies and buries them under samples of the world’s rustling sounds. The sources are rarely identifiable, which makes for the singularity to each record.

Verdaillon goes against the lyrical outbursts that are familiar to a certain register of ambient music, and towards an extremely rare quality of dynamic and detail. The record’s singular and discreet beauty is due to the organ in all of its most secular aspects, and to a certain « something in the air » of that particular place, on those particular days. The finale of Vorde provides the key to the record: it takes the listeners back to the instrument’s origins, at a time when the spiritual was part of ordinary life.

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released September 15, 2016

N 43° 35′ 51″, E 1° 26′ 33″

music by Romain Barbot & Grégory Buffier .
Romain Barbot : grand orgue, aulos, vocals, grand orgue samples, field recordings.
Grégory Buffler : grand orgue, aulos, guitar, acoustic laptop, field recordings.
additional aulos on The Harvest by Patrick Faubert.
Grand orgue recorded by Patrick Faubert on 18th & 19th June, 2014 (Toulouse, France), additional recordings by Romain Barbot & Grégory Buffier (2014-2015).
mixed by Aurélien Prévost at BillyPan studio (2015)
mastered by James Plotkin (2016)

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no-party music since 2009

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