Accident Fantôme - Objets enchâssés dans un anneau planétaire LP

Accident Fantôme is the meeting point between the groups Accident du Travail and Fantôme Josepha. Julie (ondes Martenot), Josepha (harp), Arnaud (12-string guitar) and Olivier (keyboards, organ, effects) gathered in a village in the Meuse region in early 2025 for a week of collective creation.

The recording took place in a church housing a restored 18th-century pipe organ. The silence of the hamlet and the site’s distinctive reverberation—both luminous and deep—made it possible to capture six hours of meditative, occasionally dissonant music, unfolding over extended durations.

Tarkovsky in the land of the trenches.

The music evokes something cosmic buried beneath the woods, within this geological landscape shaped by fossilized sponges, where the ghosts of the First World War are never far away. A form of mysticism without religion, made of accidents, breath, and life.
Josepha’s harp intertwines with the ondes Martenot and keyboards of Accident du Travail, while Arnaud’s 12-string guitar establishes a ghostly pulse.
Improvised drones and contemplative melodic lines alternate with a striking sense of simplicity.

The result takes the form of a long, immersive journey - fragile, deeply human, and handcrafted in its making - at the crossroads of ambient, drone, gothic, and more cinematic forms.