Résonances

Description

Side A:
The border between us and nothingness
A splendor grown dim
The essentiality of the shiver
Cinerary
Immeasurable (song for Alderica II)
Side B:
Totalitarian remnant ostentatious movement
Come with me
Savile
The most beautiful of seasons
10-11-2021
Jours Pâles, a project by Spellbound (singer - Aorlhac) was born from the ashes of Asphodèle's first and only album, released in 2019 with Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions. Spellbound and Audrey Sylvain (Malenuit) were accompanied by Christian Larsson (Ex Apati, ex Shining, Gloson) Stefan Bayle and Sébastien Papot (Guitar and drums, Au champ des morts).
After the band's dissolution the same year, Spellbound continued the adventure, composing with a desire for both continuity and rupture, the vocal duo being no more. This evolution responded to a desire to express themselves through the same states of mind as well as thick and dysthymic mists, while breaking free from the past's hold, abandoning the rock spirit for a stylistic evolution leaning towards a metal that remains melancholic, but with more rampant and aggressive undertones.
Éclosion, the first album of this new offshoot, aims to be the personal assessment of a world more than ever considered disjointed and torn, but above all a perpetual search for hope and light, both through the lyrics and the visual aspect.
Far from flying solo, Spellbound surrounded himself with musicians such as James Sloan on guitars (Uada, Gravelight) and Christian Larsson. The backbone was completed by several guests: Graf from Psychonaut 4 and Lilas Ondine Dupont (silhouette, backing vocals) as well as Sylvain Bégot (Monolithe) on lead guitar.
Sheltered from the world, awaiting the ultimate emergence, Jours Pâles was born…
Jours Pâles returns in 2022 still under the LADLO banner with a second album titled "Tensions". Tensions is intended as a personal representation of a dysthymic modern world perceived as cold, mechanical, disillusioned, where social networks and political scarecrows govern a Mephistophelian world in total loss of meaning and direction. This general theme is visually represented on the artwork by Niklas Sundin (Founding member of Dark Tranquillity, Laethora...). Musically, a more aggressive result but a vision that tends to distort clichés through an egotistical composition, mixing genres once again. Besides Spellbound still at the helm (compositions, vocals, lyrics) the line-up this time consists of musicians such as Alex G. on bass (Aorlhac, Altaïr, Ritual Knives) Alexis S. on guitars, Ben L. on drums (B-Blast records) and the traditional guest is this time entrusted to Natalie Koskinen (from the cult doom metal band Shape of Despair).
2023 marks very good feedback around "Tensions" and also the beginning of the collaboration with the booking agency "Éclosion booking" and therefore a busy year of concerts including a 12-date tour