“Alba – Les Ombres Errantes is more than a soundtrack album… HYPNO5E have proven they have no boundaries regardless of what they call themselves or what style they play.” — Progressive Music Planet
This Friday Pelagic Records will unleash Alba – Les Ombres Errantes, the latest full-length from French post-metal pioneers HYPNO5E.
HYPNO5E‘s conceptual, cinematic live show has historically been built upon a strong visual component… but that was just the beginning of a journey which is now reaching the next level: Alba – Les Ombres Errantes is the first full length movie directed by singer and guitar player Emmanuel Jessua. Here, HYPNO5E has turned down their amps, or switched them off entirely, to provide the stunning seventy-five-minute soundtrack for this ambitious project. The soundtrack to the movie, performed by HYPNO5E‘s acoustic alter ego band A BACKWARD GLANCE ON A TRAVEL ROAD (featuring the same members as HYPNO5E) captures the essence of a whirlwind that blurs and reunites age, dreams, and reality.
New Noise Magazine is currently streaming Alba – Les Ombres Errantes in advance of its release at THIS LOCATION.
If you missed it, view the video for “Los Heraldos Negros,” with images from the film below.
Alba – Les Ombres Errantes will see release April 6 on 2xLP, CD, and digital formats. Preorders are available now. In North America visit: bit.ly/hypno5ealbaNA, in Europe go to: bit.ly/hypno5ealbaEU, in Australia go to bit.ly/hypno5ealbaAUS and for digital orders visit: bit.ly/hypno5ealbaDGTL.
Emmanuel Jessua grew up in Bolivia, where Alba – Les Ombres Errantes was filmed with a team of seven French and Bolivian volunteers, on a budget of only 22.000€. The result is a breathtaking sonic and visual journey through the otherworldly landscapes of one of the most intriguing places on earth; a journey that orbits around the memories and reflections of a man contemplating about the eternal loss of childhood.
“The idea of this movie was born in the Amazon forest, precisely in Rurenabaque, on the terrace of a small hotel on the Beni river shore,” relays Jessua. “I was only ten years old and had been living with my family in Bolivia for more than five years. I was experiencing life with an incredible intensity, in a fantastic environment… with this film, I wanted to capture the constant exceeding of limits that I feel when I’m in Bolivia; the limits between the gods and the human, between sanity and madness, between the past and the present. It is in the religious and musical syncretism of the Oruro carnival (where my mother used to dance each year) that this exceeding of limits can be witnessed the best, where myth and reality mingle, and where the protagonists lose their sensation of time or space.”
For those used to the technical post metal for which HYPNO5E has become known, A BACKWARD GLANCE ON A TRAVEL ROAD might come as a surprise at first: Fans of the band however are well aware that moments of folk and Latin have always been present within HYPNO5E‘s epic take on contemporary metal. Alba – Les Ombres Errantes is a movie, an album, and a cinematic live show in its original form soon to be seen live across theaters and stages in Europe.
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