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The Pit / Dissolved in Ashes

from The Black Hours by Dead Space Chamber Music

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    Comes with a full colour booklet taking the listener on a journey through the visual world of The Black Hours. Inspired by a medieval devotional 'book of hours' of the same name, an intimate hand crafted manuscript marking The Liturgy of the Hours, or The Office of the Dead - prayers to take a soul in need from from dusk to dawn, and through the darkest of nights.

    Richly illustrated around a series of 'miniatures' - highly symbolic diorama-style band portraits, potent with secret messages and hidden meanings. The sequence of three images firstly show a pre-pandemic DSCM, moving to lockdown, and emerging into the strange and unsettling world we currently find ourselves in.

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    Comes with a full colour booklet taking the listener on a journey through the visual world of The Black Hours. Inspired by a medieval devotional 'book of hours' of the same name, an intimate hand crafted manuscript marking The Liturgy of the Hours, or The Office of the Dead - prayers to take a soul in need from from dusk to dawn, and through the darkest of nights.

    Richly illustrated around a series of 'miniatures' - highly symbolic diorama-style band portraits, potent with secret messages and hidden meanings. The sequence of three images firstly show a pre-pandemic DSCM, moving to lockdown, and emerging into the strange and unsettling world we currently find ourselves in.

    Full colour, with detailed mixed media artwork (hand-drawings, collage and photography) throughout, printed on matt finish thick paper. Luxury 'softened leather-feel' textured cover. 12 pages.

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    Comes with a full colour booklet taking the listener on a journey through the visual world of The Black Hours. Inspired by a medieval devotional 'book of hours' of the same name, an intimate hand crafted manuscript marking The Liturgy of the Hours, or The Office of the Dead - prayers to take a soul in need from from dusk to dawn, and through the darkest of nights.

    Richly illustrated around a series of 'miniatures' - highly symbolic diorama-style band portraits, potent with secret messages and hidden meanings. The sequence of three images firstly show a pre-pandemic DSCM, moving to lockdown, and emerging into the strange and unsettling world we currently find ourselves in.

    Full colour, with detailed mixed media artwork (hand-drawings, collage and photography) throughout, printed on matt finish thick paper. Luxury 'softened leather-feel' textured cover. 12 pages.

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about

The first section evolved from a semi-improvised film
soundtrack that DSCM performed live at Bristol's legendary independent kino at 20th Century Flicks. The film was 'The Pit' (1962) directed by Edward Abraham, a claustrophobic and highly atmospheric adaptation
of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum". The film's original
soundtrack was created by the Radiophonic Workshop, and the aim was
to evoke something of that tactile 'found sound' and analogue aesthetic, while infusing
it with a growing sense of entrapment and panic through increasing tactile and spatial sensory impact.


The second section, Dissolved in Ashes, has its roots in the Dies
Irae (Day of Wrath) medieval Latin poem, the melody dates back to
Gregorian chant, or older. It is best known from its use in the Roman Rite
Requiem (Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass). Here it serves as an empassioned warning lest 'the creature' may 'rise again'.

lyrics

Dies Irae, dies illa
The day of wrath, oh on that day
Will dissolve the world in ashes

Death and nature, they will marvel
Oh when the creature will rise again
The guilty judged, oh spare them God

Lacrimosa dies illa (tearful will be that day)
On which from these embers I rise again
My heart crushed in ashes

Pie Iesu Domine
Oh, merciful Jesus
Grant them rest

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from The Black Hours, released December 3, 2021

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“The Black Hours is deeply storied and gloriously doomy, a mix of beauty and heaviness, ancient and new.” The Quietus

“Compelling and totally genius. Fresh, ancient and relentlessly innovative, DSCM embody the transportive power of music” Louder Than War

"A beating dark heart of pure dream-drama and past rituals, easily one of the best live acts in Bristol" RwdFwd ... more

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