19/10/2025
Essentia Polaris
Philosophical Sound Poem in Five Tableaux for Piano
Music composed and performed by Sherif Dahroug
Recorded at Lyre de Mercure Studio, Paris–Montmartre
On October 17th, 2025, the Essentia Polaris album was double awarded at the Global Music Awards in La Jolla, California, for Best Composer (Category: Contemporary/Avant-Garde) and Best Album.
Essentia Polaris
I. Initium Silentii — At the Lake of the Ibises, an Inked Feather
Primordial silence — where the Ibis of Thoth dives into the black waters of Hermopolis to draw forth the first vibration of creation.
II. Peristylium Aurorae — The Blooming Dawn, at the Lotus of Memphis
The birth of light at the Lotus of Memphis, under the breath of Nefertum and the gaze of Isis, as day opens upon the waters of Nun.
III. Sala Columnarum Occulta — The Hidden Child and the Flower of the Sacred Marshes
In the marshes of the Delta, the child Horus sleeps under Buto’s protection; life prepares itself in darkness, carried by the murmurs of ibises and sacred reeds.
IV. Sanctum Velatum — Dua
At the heart of the veiled sanctuary, the god Kekou unites darkness and light in a sonic offering where night gives birth to illumination.
V. Revelatio Essentiae — Routy
Cosmic equilibrium fulfilled — Shu and Tefnut return from silence, and music becomes the creative breath, the source of all becoming.
