A few years ago I stumbled upon this one man project from Herr B., Paris, France. The artwork of it’s first release in tasty pink was surprisingly bizarre as the project title promising and I was lucky enough to get the CD so I realized the care which went into the sound design and the overall release.
In the meantime the return to Vinyl boom kept going and a reissue on fitting colored LP of ‘Lullabies For Babies’ is available, as will be his new album (in grey marbled) soon.
While the cover art seems to be more fitting to the overall melancholic mood this time in fact he kept his style of subtle experimentation and painting careful shades of grey, instrumental and with added lyrics where fitting.
Starting with "Whenever A Child Dies" the listener gets sucked in the otherworldly atmosphere, supported by bells chiming and echoes and a creepy but not too creepy vocal. A more ceremonial voice with added organ on "Shinj" lures me into a slo-mo moody state which is continued further in the following songs.
Some innocent childs voices are set against heavy bass drones in "Ashes Of Yesterday" and Herr B is even swinging a bit in "The Grave Is Where The Heart Is" which works as the centerpiece of this album.
Followed by equally careful crafted tracks which all share that special warmth in sound which does get assigned to analouge electronics mainly this is a pleasure to listen to up to the last song "As Hours Go By". I admit I really appreciate a classy finale rounding an album off.
The tracks themselves are surprisingly short and never outstay their welcome, leaving one even a little puzzled with the feel of having missed sth. due an early fade-out or the well used stylistic element of an aprupt ending.

'Life Is A Lonely Path' is a brilliant and coherent collection of temporary electronic neo gothic music consisting of slow and mindful movements and melodies setting a distinctive sign against the panic and hectic of modern everyday life…

Support the artist’s own label ‘Lonely Demon Records‘ and get it – or both – directly on his bandcamp, available on March 14th or as preorder.