Sounds | Bank Myna - The other Faceless Me

Een nummer dat draait rond een machtige vocale prestatie van Maud Harribey (zang, viool, keyboards) van de Parijse post rock/dark folk band Bank Myna. Ik had afgelopen week een album van hen beluisterd en het kon me niet boeien. Deze song echter is van een totaal ander kaliber. Bezwerende zang en een snijdende viool openen The Other Faceless Me op een uiterst beklemmende wijze. Het spelen met meer ingetogen passages afgewisseld door zéér intense stukken zorgt voor een dynamiek die onder de huid kruipt. Naar het einde toe vallen gitaar en drums in, zij het op een erg trage en slepende wijze, beetje zoals Earth met soundscapes speelt.

Emuria verschijnt op 25 april 2025 via Medication Times Records / Araki Records

Luister ook naar: Burn All The Edges

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Accompanied by a hypnotic and visually haunting music video, the track unfolds like a three-part ritual where ethereal drones give way to raw, trance-like intensity before fading into an intimate, slow-burning finale. A sonic and visual experience mirroring a metamorphosis, dissolving the boundary between body and sound in an enigmatic, ritualistic procession.

At the heart of "The Other Faceless Me" lies Maud Harribey’s inward journey, shaped by a brutal rupture — one that fractures the connection between body and self. The video follows this fracture through disorientation, struggle, and eventual transformation. Directed with a caravaggesque painterly eye by Clément Verrier and edited by Constantin du Closel, it unfolds like a fever dream: bodies in flux, veiled figures moving in synchrony, shadows stretching across a darkened canvas. The freeform dance is raw and instinctive, a physical response to the sonic landscape, an act of regaining control over the body.

Initiated in 2013 in Paris, Bank Myna is the architect of a unique universe where dark post-rock, drone, sound experiments and doom-like incursions mingle. Among a mystical voice and dronian soundscapes, Bank Myna’s music offers free structures within which the sounds are ample, deep and the play on textures permanent. Ecstatic vocals lead the way to slow movements before letting the sound space tear up under bass and guitar feedbacks. Progressive, intense, torn between shadow and light, the Parisian quartet likes to give breadth and power to its compositions in an abrasive and instinctive live act, oscillating from flutterings imposed by drone sounds to dazzling noise and heavy rock explosions.Recorded in a live setting, their forthcoming new album "EIMURIA" captures the palpable osmosis between the musicians with sensitivity and spontaneity, thanks to ample, warm sounds. Especially inspired by the tumultuous lives and artistic productions of poetess Alejandra Pizarnik and sculptor Camille Claudel, and deeply intimate, it narrates a process of personal transformation interspersed with brutal ruptures. "EIMURIA" was recorded and mixed by long-time collaborator Mathieu Gaud at Vetter Studio, and mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market in Montreal. Artwork was designed by Italian experimental photographer Ramona Zordini.

Bank Myna is

Fabien Delmas - guitar

Maud Harribey - vocals, violin, keyboards

Constantin Du Closel - drums, percussions

Daniel Machon - bass

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