ALCEST
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ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS THE SOLO PROJECT OF NEIGE, A MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST FRENCH MUSICIAN AND WARRANTOR OF A PARTICULARLY PERSONAL VISION OF A REINVENTED BLACK METAL, ALCEST HAS BECOME THROUGHOUT ITS ALBUMS AN UNAPPROACHABLE AND TOTALLY DREAMLIKE ENTITY.
Like a dark nebula, Alcest’s work is pierced by a soft light and an incredible grace, gaining cult status all over the world, so many worshiping this unique form of eminently spiritual music that unites as much the dense darkness of black metal as the opaque despair of post-metal, the mystery of ambient music, not to mention the melodies, the noisy guitars and the pathological introspection of shoe-gazing. Impossible to label but navigating somewhere between the worlds of Burzum, Slow Dive, My Bloody Valentine and Ulver, Alcest deploys atmospheric themes that are alternately bewitching, illuminated or oppressive, but definitely subject to a harmonious and melancholic aesthetic with a musical progression that has broadened from 2007’s “Memories Of Another World” and the gems of “Scales of the Moon” to his latest "Kodama" in 2016.
2018 Tickets
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