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artist: Neptunian Maximalism
title: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu
year: 2025
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: I, Voidhanger Records
language: English
rel. date: 2025-04-11
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 01:38:42
size: 239.08MB
rip date: 2025-04-12
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/739684961
tracklist:
1. At Dusk: Raag Marwa: Alaap 8:39
2. At Dusk: Raag Marwa: Vilambit Laya Alaap 12:01
3. At Dusk: Raag Marwa: Unisson Composition 4:55
4. At Dusk: Raag Marwa: Dream Chord 8:11
5. Arcana XX: Raag Todi: Alaap On Surbahar 16:30
6. Arcana XX: Raag (Raudra) Todi: Drut Laya, Chaotic Polyphonic 8:10
Taan Combinations
7. Arcana XX: Raag (Raudra) Todi: MadhyalayaYama DCCLXXI 7:21
8. At Dawn: Raag Bairagi: Vilambit Laya Alaap 8:37
9. At Dawn: Raag Bairagi: Rite D'Ovairture & Badhat Unisson 5:42
10. At Dawn: Raag Bairagi: Sthayi & Antara Composition 7:34
11. At Dawn: Raag Bairagi: Layakari In Offer to the Cosmic Serpent 11:02
release notes:
Founded in Brussels in 2018 by Guillaume Cazalet and Jean Jacques
Duerinckx, NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM is an experimental collective pushing
the boundaries of drone, free jazz, and doom metal by trance-inducing
rhythms, cosmic psychedelia, and primal sonic rituals.
Recorded in 2023 at St John's on Bethnal Green church in London and
expertly mastered by James Plotkin, NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM's new album "Le
Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI)" is a monumental journey that captures
a transformative experience within the church's walls, merging
architecture, energy, and sound thanks to a hypnotic blend of amplified
drones, Indian classical music and raw spiritual energy.
Over four days, NNMM undertook a residency in the church, forming an
unusual yet profound bond with its architecture and the history and
energy it held within. In this space, they morphed into a new entity,
turning their performance into an ecstatic experience. The resulting
final piece spans two hours and revisits 3 Ragas of Indian classical
music: Raga Marwa, Raga Todi and Raga Bairagi.
Once again exalted by a cover painting from Japanese artist Kaneko
Tomiyuki, "Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu" seems to describe a rite of
passage. The listener is taken on a soothing, slow adrift into a
nebulous dusk where hypnotizing melodies merge with the shock of heavy
yet shimmering drones. Emerging from a black hole, the tenebrous bells
of the Surbahar announce a threatening trip into a night haunted by the
wrath of battling spirits, where relentless war drums violently fight
vampiric guitar leads, finally resolving in a sneaky groove. The
psychedelic journey resumes with the dissolved elements coagulating into
a solid new form, ready to rise from the grave at The Judgment horn's
calling, for the rebirth and blossom of a seed in a bare ground. It's a
merciful lament of everlasting notes full of love and grace that
accompany the cycle to its end.