01. I Can’t Push The Death Away
02. Open Wounds
03. From All the Places That I’ll Never See
04. Stay
05. Elusive Goals
06. The Hanging Sword Over the Fainted Shadow
Release date: 22nd September 2023
Limited edition of 400 copies on black vinyl
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A Crimson Shore is Saåad’s first studio album since Présence Absente in 2018. In the interim, Toulouse-based composer and producer Romain Barbot has enriched his experience as an artist through multiple collaborations, the composition of soundtracks and commissioned pieces, as well his involvement with the bands FOUDRE! and Sables Noirs.
This new chapter in the Frenchman’s discography reflects this artistic maturity, evoking the project’s finest ambient recordings while revealing a new, unfiltered and decisive personality. Saåad’s use of a more direct musical language (exclusively electronic on this album) is intended to lay bare the inner life of its creator: the tracks are structured in a cycle of loops, vibrations and drones which respond to and confront each other like the torments of existence, torn between the twilight of sombre music reduced to its purest function of catharsis and the dawn of a new, luminous narrative journey.
A Crimson Shore is a raw, all-encompassing album, shot through with the fear of death, of growing old, of accepting it, of grief —past, present, imagined and future— and the search for a transcendental refuge.
© Yeshe Dionnet
Credits: Tracks composed & performed by Romain Barbot / Recorded & mixed by Aurélien Prevost / Mastered by Stephan Mathieu / Artwork by Romain Barbot
