Accident Fantôme

ACCIDENT FANTÔME is a collaboration between the bands Accident du Travail and Fantôme Josepha. Julie Normal (ondes Martenot), Josepha Mougenot (harp), Arnaud Marcaille (12-string guitar), and Olivier Demeaux (keyboards, organ, effects) gather in a village in the Meuse region in early 2025 for a week of creative work.

The recording takes place in a church housing a restored, 18th-century organ. The silence of the hamlet and the venue’s unique reverberation—at once luminous and deep—allow for the capture of six hours of meditative, at times dissonant music, unfolding over time.

Tarkovsky in the land of the trenches.

The music evokes a cosmic force buried beneath the woods, in this geological massif made of fossilized sponges, where the ghosts of the Great War are never far away. A mysticism without religion, made of accidents, breath, and life.

Josepha’s harp blends with the synths and keyboards of Accident du Travail; Arnaud’s 12-string guitar establishes a ghostly pulse. Drones and improvised contemplative chants alternate with effortless simplicity. The result takes the form of a long, immersive ballad—fragile, deeply human, and handcrafted in its creation—blending ambient, drone, gothic, sludge, and more cinematic elements. Their debut album, Objets enchâssés sur un anneau planétaire, was released on June 12, 2026, on moli del tro records.