Label: Aube Et Crépuscule – 04
Format: CDr, EP, Limited Edition, Numbered
Country: France
Released: May 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Experimental
Tracklist
1 The Absent-minded Beggar
- Lyrics By – Rudyard Kipling2 There Gloom The Dark Broad Seas
3 Dante's Dream At The Time Of The Death Of Beatrice
4 Death Of A Dandy
5 Smoke, Sweat And The Whitechapel Misery
6 Old Victorian Age
Notes
Created in the winter of 2010 / 2011.
Track 1: from a poem by Rudyard Kipling which highlights the plight of soldiers returning from war with physical or psychological injuries.
Track 2: Poems 'Ulysses' and 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade" by Lord Alfred Tennyson. A contemplation of age and eventual death and a longing for further experience and knowlwdge.
Track 3: inspired by the work of Gabriel Dante Rossetti and the pre-raphaelites.
Track 4: inspired by the picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Track 5: the great industrial revolution and the misery of disrooted urban population
The release is a printed CDr in an elegant A5 edition with glossy picture glued on the cover.
Limited edition of 150 handnumbered copies.
‘Fin de siècle’ is a series of three mini-albums released on Aube & Crépuscule, each of them through the spectrum of a different European capital at a time when the European civilization was at its high.
Part I is Paris and part III will be Wien (Vienna).