Italian dark synth project My Absence By Now has signed with The Circle Music to release its debut album Bliss, that will be available in both CD and vinyl formats from the record label, on 24th March and 22nd June respectively.
Ahead of that is the single ‘Behind’ that you can check out the video to, right here at RAMzine.
My Absence By Now is the new child of Italian musician Emiliano Santoro, known for his work as founder of doom/atmospheric post black metal/post rock Dead Summer Society and dark ambient Last Winter I Died. He was also a guitarist in gothic/doom band How Like A Winter. The time has come though, to explore new paths and unwalked landscapes; to experiment with new sounds. The result is a mix of dark synth that is said to drag the listener’s feelings into a world where darkness contests the existence of the last faded sunbeams.
Joining Santoro on this journey are guest singers Graziana Oddo (also singer in funky electronic band Elektrovice and previously rock electronic band Retina) and Andrea Maggioni (involved in several metal projects such as post-black metal Icidar, funeral doom The Harrowing Yearning and technical deathcore Astral Emptiness).
My Absence By Now’s music can be placed within the electronic dark synth ambient boundaries, but the soundscapes created are said to be multiform, not easy to put in a specific genre: music is atmospheric and nostalgic, urban and cold, airy and dreamlike, melancholically caressed by female tunes but suddenly carved by harsh male vocals. It could be stated that Bliss is your own, hidden place to contemplate your unstable sky, waiting for the brightness or the storm.
Tracks featured are ‘Away’, ‘A Place, Vapour’, ‘Saviour’, ‘An Old Love’, ‘Bliss’, ‘Just Leave Me Then’, ‘Behind’ and ‘Things’.
Bliss is available to pre-order here.
