Artist's albums
Nova
2022 · album
Nova
2022 · single
Mono No Aware
2022 · single
Nowhere, Still Somewhere
2021 · single
Time Without End
2020 · EP
Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
2018 · album
Mørklagt
2018 · single
Abeyance
2018 · single
Wistful
2016 · album
Silent Chamber, Noisy Heart
2014 · album
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Biography
To speak to Sylvaine, the one-woman multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and composer born Kathrine Shepard, is to speak to some spirit that exists beyond the veil of convention and stereotypes. This is not a woman playing to the vogue dark melodic folklorist trope that has become so prevalent in the metal scene but rather, this is a woman who is a serious and classically trained composer and arranger whose songs, that originate on unplugged electric guitars in lavender and black bedrooms, end up exploding against the unlimited conventions of what modern music can accomplish. For some time, Kathrine Shepard has been seen as the petite pixie of the Norwegian black gaze scene but her small eleven features and lightheartedness belie the woman warrior behind Nova, her complex and personal fourth release. Following her 2018 Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone release, Sylvaine (a play on the name of one of her beloved French poets, Paul Verlaine) gives us 'Nova', an album that is both a musical and personal reawakening of a singer/composer finding her way in this world. Out March 04, 2022 via Season of Mist New Releases