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And the chant of the night will echo across eternity, through the words from the poets of transgression...
As far as the tale goes, it was wrapt in a curtain of smoke, from the Porto underground layer, that Bal Onirique had their dawn... The year and hour of these new tenants, dressed with colours of sacred and profane desire, is a mystery that will continue to endure somewhere amidst the rings of the night and of the times.
It is known however that the name Bal Onirique occurred while going through the pages of a book on the Life and Work of the Eternal Salvador Dali which alludes to an assumed celebration of a surrealist ball in 1934. The famous Dream Betrayal (Bal Onirique) took place by the hand of Caresse Crosby, US in honour of Dali before his departure to the old Europe.
The description of the sceneries and atmospheres awoke, in the body and soul of the group, an accumulation of sublime Dali-like wanderings, of insane and surreal developments, inherent to and shared by each members celebrated tastes, becoming at once of one the main source of artistic and poetic inspiration of the themes in their texts where Art and Literature are a strong magical and theatrical component. Thus, acquiring the angular and evasive expression in the imagery and surreal universe of their music which is always directed into incorporating spiritual abysms as well as to awake the abysms of our subconsciousness where Love and Death forever dwell in symbolic constant metamorphosis.
Allied with this they pantomime with aesthetic ambiguity which is clearly influenced by the archetypes of the late XIX century Dandyism and by the dense and dark outfits of goth character.
The nature of the Bal Onirique quintet is composed by: P.A. on vocals; David Teves on the guitar; Francisco on the bass; Jorge on the guitar and Alberto on the drums. The outcome of this union was converted with the beginning of their studio sessions around the Spring of 2006 to record Jadis et Naguère and Slow Lane which had the precious collaboration of Gonçalo Vasco (Coimbras University Radio - 1978) on the recording itself and David Reis (ex-Trauma and Phantom Vision) with the subsequent production.
Jadis et Naguère (Before and After / Formerly and Recently) it is above all a passionate Ode that mirrors the chimerical ardor, impulsive and lewd of one of the stormiest passions ever: Verlaine and Rimbaud - two lovers of the twilight, two arabesque stars, two of the most beautiful poets that commanded the nocturnal skies.
