Description

Vermilion Hours blends Dalibert’s minimalist piano with Sylvian’s subtle electronics, creating a meditative, time-suspending soundscape.

Scattered notes stretch time, their repetitions evoking the infinite iridescence of dawn–a ritual as inevitable as it is unpredictable. Melaine Dalibert’s Musique pour le lever du jour, composed over two years and completed in 2017, was envisioned as ‘an infinite piece,’ without beginning or end. Subtle, intangible, both complex and minimal, this hour-long work–dedicated to pianist Stphane Ginsburgh–lets silence and resonance blossom into shifting colors. Released by Elsewhere Music (run by Yuko Zama), the album was among France Musique’s 100 best of 2018. Its abstract cover was created by David Sylvian.

Dalibert has since performed the piece in varied settings, from dawn to dusk, leading him to craft a condensed 20-minute version more suited to live performance. During this period, he released t