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The Silent Song of Death (and Life)

Boxedge Music Silent Rhyme

The Silent Song of Death (and Life)

by BOXEDGE

There’s a voice that speaks to us while we sleep.
We don’t hear it with our ears, but we feel it — as a sudden chill, a blurred memory, an image suspended between dream and vanishing.
That voice is Death.
But not Death as an ending.
Death as a presence.

In Silent Rhyme, the song I wrote and produced for Serena Void, it is she — Death — who speaks.
And she does so with the gentleness of an old companion, with the ruthless honesty of someone who knows.
She doesn’t frighten us. She doesn’t threaten.
She simply whispers the truth we so often avoid: time is not infinite, and every hesitation has a cost.

Serena Void sings these words with haunting tenderness. Her voice — synthetic, yet deeply human — floats through the track with a strange intimacy. This is cyber reggae: a slow, melancholic pulse wrapped in digital echo, where dread and clarity walk side by side.

We created cyber reggae to give form to that suspended feeling — between life and death, between dreaming and awareness, between what is real and what trembles just beneath the surface.

This isn’t a genre for escapism.
It’s a ritual, a reckoning.
The bass moves like a distant heartbeat. The reverbs come from a synthetic jungle. And the lyrics — slow, inescapable — guide us through the dark.
Not to scare us.
To wake us up.

“Stop your dreaming, time is fleeting…
Take a small step into the dark.”

Death speaks to remind us to live.
To do the things we keep postponing.
To love the people who are still here.
To write that letter, play that song, walk that unnamed road.
Because everything we don’t choose now will be lost.
And when she comes — because she will — she will only take what we truly were, not what we wished to be.

Serena Void — our virtual singer, born from glitch and light reflected on steel — gives voice to this truth.
Silent Rhyme is not a lullaby.
It’s an awakening.

 

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About the cover of the vinyl “Love Like Blood / The Circle”

Love Like Blood The Circle Cover Art

About the cover of the vinyl “Love Like Blood / The Circle”

by PZ

🎥 Watch the video below. It was my first attempt to explore the concept behind the artwork. What follows is a more complete reflection.

Some time ago, I recorded the short video  above that began with a simple question: “What is an abyss?”

Today, I return to that question to share a more complete view of the images I created for our first limited edition vinyl, Love Like Blood / The Circle (300 hand-numbered copies).


Front – Rose in the Abyss

The front cover is titled “Rose in the Abyss”.
At the center, I painted an upside-down rose — suspended above a compact black circle that seems to absorb everything.
The circle is surrounded by vivid, dense red brushstrokes in circular motion:
Blood, fire, passion… or perhaps destruction.

Amid this swirling magma and black void, something still resists.
The rose — fragile and defiant — refuses to vanish.
It isn’t swallowed by the abyss, nor does it burn in the vortex.

This image was born from listening to the two tracks by Boxedge, “Love Like Blood” and “The Circle”.
Emotions, pulses, and desires moved within me and led to this visual expression.

 


Back – Rebirth

The back cover has a different title: “Rebirth”.
Where once there was the abyss, now there is only a vast red current.
A flowing energy.

Two slender figures face each other — distant, yet connected.
A perfect red circle cuts through them both, linking them, though they remain apart.
It feels like a silent current between two extremes.

The red background remains, but its structure changes: the brushstroke is no longer circular, as in Rose in the Abyss, but horizontal — like the steady movement of a river.
It flows, evolves, carries.

In contrast, the two long, black silhouettes — a recurring element in many of my works — detach themselves from that fluid.
They do not merge with it. They remain in tension, recognizable yet only faintly outlined.
Presences that sense each other, perhaps reach out — but never touch.

Rebirth is about tension and possibility.
It speaks of the will to emerge from the undifferentiated flow of life, from its endless cycle.
A quiet battle to be reborn and become truly oneself.

In a reality that tends to homogenize and blur all things, these two figures remain slender, fragile — but distinct.
This isn’t an answer, but a threshold. A movement toward something new.

 


Love Like Blood / The Circle – Red vinyl – Limited Edition

📀 Love Like Blood / The Circle is available in a limited, numbered edition (300 copies).
A vinyl not only to listen to — but to hold, to look at, to feel.
A small fragment of a larger story.

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BOXEDGE: “OBLIVION” – A song from the future that no longer remembers the past

Oblivion cover

Boxedge: "OBLIVION" – A song from the future that no longer remembers the past

by BOXEDGE

“Oblivion” is the first glimpse of a future that no longer belongs to us.
Lunaria Payne doesn’t sing from here.
She sings from a time that doesn’t exist yet — or perhaps never will.

It’s a transmission — a vocal signal from an era where memory is treated as system instability.
In the world Lunaria comes from, remembering is a fault: a disturbance, a drift.
Fragments of the past are erased frame by frame, rewritten by protocols of silence.
Those who hold on too long… vanish.
They become a glitch.

“Oblivion” tells that story.
Not through rebellion, but through a whisper — the voice of someone who’s already beginning to fade, yet still wants to leave a trace.

Lunaria doesn’t scream.
She doesn’t accuse.
She doesn’t plead.
She simply sings.
With a voice that’s calm, distant, and haunting.

And here lies the paradox: while the lyrics speak of loss and erasure, the music moves through an electronic soul atmosphere, rich with echoes of R&B.
The sound is warm — but it doesn’t comfort.

This contrast is deliberate.
It marks the first step in Lunaria Payne’s evolution toward her final form: the genre we call Cyber Noir.
A style imagined as post-modern, glitchy, electronic and cold — yet harmonically rooted in the blues.
A sonic space where the warmth of the soul drifts through digital ruins and luminous absences.

“Oblivion” is a warning.
It’s the beginning of a larger narrative world, one that will unfold through upcoming videos, new tracks…

And for those of you reading to the end — I’m also working on something special: a transmedia narrative project, crossing sound, text, and vision.
I can’t say more for now, but I will, soon.

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Inside “Atmosphere” (Joy Division Electronic Cover) – Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne

Atmosphere - Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne

Inside "Atmosphere" (Joy Division Electronic Cover) - Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne

by BOXEDGE

There’s no clear beginning.
Ideas don’t arrive like lightning. They seep in.
They come through the cracks, like fog.

“Atmosphere” by Joy Division has always been a threshold for me.
A song that doesn’t tell you where to go.
It only invites you to disappear.

When I decided to reinterpret it, I didn’t want to remake anything. I wanted to find the silence behind every sound, the fade that exists before any word, the emptiness that precedes every image.

That’s how my version was born.
Not by adding — but by removing.

I started from the dark.
A single reverb. Then a pad. Then the voice.

But it couldn’t be my voice.
It had to be a voice not of this world.
Something that seemed to remember without having lived.
So I called on Lunaria Payne.
Or rather, I let her emerge.

rewrote the original bass and guitar lines as electronic arpeggios, trying to preserve their melodic shape, even if transformed.
As if the song had been dreamed by a machine that only knows echoes.
I didn’t want to remake it. I wanted to listen to it from another point in time.

Lunaria doesn’t interpret — she translates.
She doesn’t perform emotions.
She filters them.
She transforms them into something you can pass through, but never hold.

In this track, Lunaria doesn’t tell a story.
She is the presence inside an empty room.
The reflection in a dead mirror.

And somehow, beneath the airy slowness of it all, there’s a distant echo of Genesis —
those of Wind and WutheringA Trick of the Tail, perhaps even Foxtrot.

 

Not in the notes, but in the breath.
In the way sounds open and then vanish.
In the way melancholy is never declared, but simply happens.

I’ve listened to those records since I was barely more than a child, in the mid-1970s.
They were with me when I knew nothing, but already felt everything.
And they’ve never left me since — not even now, all these years later.

We shot the video in the same spirit.
No grand effects.
Just a game of mirrors, flickering lights, and a dissolving figure.

A visual illusion — but not to dazzle.
Only to suggest that maybe there’s no one left at all.

Not in the video.
Not in the song.
Not in the listener.

Atmosphere lives (for now) only on streaming platforms.
But true listening — the kind you can touch, keep, and open in silence — awaits you in the vinyl and CD editions by Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne.
You can find them here.

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Lunaria and the Mirror Effect – Behind the Scenes of “Atmosphere”

Lunaria Atmosphere

Lunaria and the Mirror Effect – Behind the Scenes of "Atmosphere"

by PZ.

A first look at the new video for the Atmosphere cover with Lunaria Payne: Victorian dresses, haunted mirrors, and a shadow taking form inside my studio.

Lunaria Atmosphere

 Where Ideas Begin

In my lab, ideas never arrive fully formed.
They seep in like fog. They take shape slowly.
Sometimes, they even enter the wrong room.

A Shadow in the Light

This week, I lit a dim light — just enough to cast a shadow.
I’m working on the new video for AtmosphereBoxedge’s electronic reinterpretation of the Joy Division song, featuring Lunaria Payne.

A Room of Echoes

I wanted to create a disorienting effect. 
A small visual enchantment.
Mirrors that reflect, but never return the same image.
Lunaria appears and disappears, as if trapped in a visual echo, in a room with no exit.

Victorian Reflection

Lunaria wears a Victorian dress. Beneath it, the reflection is never the same.

Just a Draft

The cameras are not yet set. The final lights have yet to arrive. What you’ll see below is just a first visual sketch — a fragment of the creative process. But sometimes, a draft says it all. The finished video will be born from this.

Atmosphere, once more

In the meantime, Atmosphere is available on all major streaming platforms.

 

Lunaria Atmosphere
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Afterglow is now available on CD

Boxedge Music Afterglow CD

Afterglow is now available on CD

Afterglow” – The new album by Boxedge featuring Lunaria Payne, his cybernetic angel.

 Dive into a blend of original tracks and reimagined 80s covers, all infused with electronic, synthwave, and darkwave vibes.  Now available on CD for all electronic music lovers.

 Order your CD today and dive into a world where sound meets the soul.

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