Cyparissus - Tombeaux Infinis (2026)

On TOMBEAUX INFINIS, Cyparissus' third album for Dragon's Eye, the artist turns the lens outward. Where identity was once something to excavate from within, here it becomes a question of reflection: how do others perceive you, and how accurately can you interpret that perception? It is a question without a clean answer, and Cyparissus doesn't pretend otherwise.

TOMBEAUX INFINIS is the final chapter of a trilogy that began with 2023's TO THE MOON AND BACK and continued through 2024's TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB's Tail. Each album has held identity as its central concern while approaching it from a different angle. TO THE MOON looked backward—how does one's past inform who they are, and can that person ever be an unbiased observer of that process? TWO SHAKES looked inward at the immediate—how does one experience themselves today, and how much of what shapes a person is truly voluntary? TOMBEAUX INFINIS completes the arc by looking outward, toward the gaze of others.

To realize this, Cyparissus enlisted collaborators, and the process of working with them became inseparable from the album's central question. With Freddy Ruppert, the approach unfolds across three tracks: first, a nearly unedited reading of text Cyparissus wrote; then, that same speech glitched and granulized into random combinations that almost cohere into sentences; and finally, Cyparissus editing Ruppert's voice to speak phrases Cyparissus composed. The original contribution is honored, then dissolved, then reconstructed—not unlike the way we assemble our sense of how others see us. With Nick Levine, the dynamic plays out in a single track: two of his submissions sound simultaneously, mostly unedited, until certain fragments begin to repeat and Cyparissus' own hand grows more present, reshaping the material as it moves forward.

What emerges is an album built from acts of interpretation—of other people's work, other people's voices, and ultimately, other people's understanding of who we are. TOMBEAUX INFINIS does not resolve the question it poses. It simply, and rigorously, inhabits it.