Rites Of Genesis / Smaragdine

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Rites of Genesis (full LP, 2008) 42:17
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Smaragdine (full EP, 2005) 21:39
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Reviews:

"Ad Ombra signe ici un album incontournable, d'un professionalisme et d'une efficacité redoutables. Leur travail est d'une originalité stupéfiante, ils vont devenir à coup sûr une référence dans peu de temps. Tout les amoureux de Néo Classique, de Bombastic vont rester béat devant tant de talent et d'ingéniosité."(Broken Dolls Fr)



"George D. Stanciulescu is without any question an outstanding composer and arrangeur, a musician who transfers his visions of neoclassic music into suspensful and poignant compositions. "Rites Of Genesis" is a really impressive work full of power and emotions. Very recommendable." (Obliveon magazine, Germany)

"This is a very well done and complete release, and I'm very eager to hear what Ad Ombra manages to produce in the future. Fans of epic and dark orchestral music, especially such as The Protagonist, should definitely consider to pick this up."(Heathen Harvest, USA)



Released in 2005 as the debut work of Romanian composer George D. Stanciulescu, "Smaragdine" consists of a passionate suite of 7 tabulas, distilling dramatic modern classical aesthetics and ineluctable aspirations, all mixed into one 22 minutes track.

The subsequent full length album, "Rites of Genesis", was released in January 2008 by polish label Rage in Eden, enabling a cinematic and esoteric journey through the whirls of dark symphonic grandeur, timeless romanticism and spiritually challenging descents into the abyss of sounds. For the first time, it featured the mezzo-soprano Alexandra Damian.


Smaragdine, mini-CD, 2005, self-released:

1.1 Tabula I
1.2 Tabula II
1.3 Tabula III
1.4 Tabula IV
1.5 Tabula V
1.6 Tabula VI
1.7 Tabula VII


Rites of Genesis (equinox tremendum) CD, Rage in Eden Records, 2008

1 Descort (; Upon The Face Of The Deep) 3:29
2 Tempting The Insolence Of Vision 3:04
3 Heart Sermons 2:51
4 Spermognosis 2:35
5 Thanatomia (Litania Miserae) 1:17
6 A Pearled Remorse 2:06
7 Rituals Of The Dormant 3:46
8 Exequies 1:40
9 Sycomore Made Senses 2:47
10 Once Upon Desire 3:54
11 Dusk Vanity 2:19
12 Sideranoia 3:23
13 Consolatio (Nachtlied Der Reinheit) 3:59
14 Quartered Divine 1:29
15 Vertigoplay : Genesis 3:33

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released January 25, 2008

Composed, arranged and produced by George D. Stanciulescu.
Additional arrangements by Maximilian Lupu.
Mezzo-soprano: Alexandra Damian.

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Ad Ombra has been put on indefinite hiatus since 2011, after leaving a legacy of 3 albums and a demo EP of a truly creative force in the dark experimental underground music

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