Ziua Fără Sfârșit

The recent reissue of Cezar’s Ziua Fǎrǎ Sfârşit (The Day Without End) album – originally released in 2000 and revisited in truncated form on Metaphon in 2025 – was cause indeed for celebration, as Cezar’s compositions had become incredibly hard to hear in any quality (the 2000 CD edition has been out of print for ages). Cezar is considered the eminence grise of the Romanian tendency to spectralism and championed it alongside Iancu Dumitrescu and Horațiu Rǎdulescu. Cezar was also the first in line to work at the first electronic studio in Romania, which was opened in 1965. A pioneer in many senses, then; the electro-acoustic works on Ziua Fǎrǎ Sfârşit, recorded between 1967 and 1975, are surrealist escapades, the opening “AUM” underpinned by a slowly morphing drone, while wind instruments, percussive clatter and drift-like recitatives skate over its surface.