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Madrigal Posts “Eclipse” Video

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Guitarist Julia Gaeta (Restless Ghosts, ex-Albez Duz) takes on immersive soundscaping with her Madrigal project. I’ll confess that I had to look up the word “tenebrism” to get a better idea of the stated sound she’s going for — she calls it “guitar tenebrism” — and to save you the trouble unless you took more art classes than I apparently did, it’s like chiaroscuro but with higher contrasts between light and dark. More intense. Based in Berlin, Gaeta began posting singles under the Madrigal banner last Spring and through YouTube, put up four songs between May and July 2019.

That was before Restless Ghosts released their self-titled debut EP in August with Gaeta handling vocals and all instruments save drums, which were performed by Sara Neidorf (Mellowdeath), and since then, Madrigal has been silent, but the new song “Eclipsed” finds Gaeta departing the studio setting and self-filmed feel of the prior clips for the great outdoors. Working with director David Fitt, who has helmed videos for HexvesselGrave Pleasures and Death Alley, among others, Gaeta brings “Eclipsed” to life in a context that suitably plays between light and dark: an open field at what would seem to be dusk with a chunk missing out of the moon far back in the distance. I don’t know if it was an actual eclipse or when the video was filmed, but you get that impression anyway, and atmosphere has a big role to play with Madrigal generally, so it fits.

The solo outfit is a departure from the goth-tinged cultism of Restless Ghosts, but the ambience in the “Eclipsed” video is meditative and more than slightly wistful, so not completely out of whack either. Check it out and see what you think. Gaeta gives a quote below. My favorite part is where she says she doesn’t know where the project’s heading. I look forward to finding out.

Please enjoy:

Madrigal, “Eclipsed” official video

Julia Gaeta on “Eclipsed”:

Madrigal is a project that explores the depths and lushness of guitar sounds. It’s about straddling the darkness and light in both sound and visuals. Even though the compositions are pretty different from one another, I always try to evoke feelings that live in an “in-between”, twilight space. Now more than ever, it’s cathartic to escape to somewhere else, and I tend to do this when creating Madrigal songs. I hope that the end result helps others do the same.

“Eclipsed” is kind of a send-off for a heavy summer and a welcome to the decay of fall. All my previous songs have been DIY, with me doing audio and video recording, and it’s been so great to involve filmmaker David Fitt (Grave Pleasures, King Dude, Death Alley, Perturbator) who is helping to bring these worlds to life in a bigger way.

There’s a lot more to come. I think Madrigal is more of an experiment than anything else, because I don’t know how it will evolve. It’s just really nice to be able to release music in a more unconventional way.

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