French post metal pioneers HYPNO5E are back with a brand new album – the soundtrack to Alba – Les Ombres Errantes, the first full-length movie directed by singer and guitar player Emmanuel Jessua.
Today we are delighted to be able to unveil the entire soundtrack first hand. A beautiful sonic exploration – performed by HYPNO5E’s acoustic alter ego band A BACKWARD GLANCE ON A TRAVEL ROAD (featuring the exact same members as HYPNO5E) – that sees the band expand their already impressive musical vocabulary. Exploring the worlds of folk and latin music, the French outfit crafted a dreamy, visually strong, and gorgeous 75 minutes voyage. A magnificent experience that asks to be explored and promises rewarding the listener time and time again.
Emmanuel Jessua grew up in Bolivia, where the movie was filmed with a team of 7 French and Bolivian volunteers, and a budget of only 22.000€.
“The idea of this movie was born in the Amazon forest, precisely in Rurenabaque, on the terrace of a small hotel on the Beni river shore”, tells Jessua. “I was only 10 years old and had been living with my family in Bolivia for more than five years. I was experiencing life with an incredible intensity, in a fantastic environment… with this film, I wanted to capture the constant exceeding of limits that I feel when I’m in Bolivia: the limits between the gods and the human, between sanity and madness, between the past and the present. It is in the religious and musical syncretism of the Oruro carnival (where my mother used to dance each year) that this exceeding of limits can be witnessed the best, where myth and reality mingle, and where the protagonists lose their sensation of time or space.”
Alba – Les Ombres Errantes will be out April 6th via Pelagic Records. Pre-order your copy here.