A dark fantasy film score for the book of Judges, reimagined like a mythic epic: no Broadway vocals here, just cinematic, big-band jazz-rock and orchestral tension. This is the instrumental companion to In Those Days: The Songs—the world between the words.

Oblige paints an ancient Canaan where toppled idols and forgotten vows hum under the surface: low horns and strings for a crownless valley, sleazy temple grooves for Baal-berith, crooked odd-meter stealth for the left-handed assassin, noir prophecy cues under the palm, war engines for iron chariots, midnight jazz in Jael’s tent, Gideon’s winepress anxiety, Jephthah’s vow in the dark, Nazarite themes for a man who looks ordinary but carries impossible strength, and a final collapse of pillars and pride.

All tracks are instrumental: drums, upright bass, guitars, piano/organ, horns, and strings weaving motifs across the whole record. Think dark fantasy, old gods, and cursed oaths filtered through Oblige’s lens—like a lost score for a biblical Pink Floyd movie that never got made.

Perfect for writing, worldbuilding, late-night listening, or as the atmospheric “film reel” behind In Those Days: The Songs.

In Those Days: The Score

In Those Days is a dark-fantasy jazz/blues concept album built on the book of Judges—half film score, half rock opera, all one continuous world.

Obligé scores a crownless Canaan with smoky horns, upright bass, haunted guitars, and stormy drums: temple nightclubs for Baal, crooked odd-meter stealth for the left-handed assassin, noir prophecy under the palm tree, iron chariots rolling like war machines, midnight tension in Jael’s tent, Gideon shaking in a winepress, a daughter caught in the teeth of a vow, and a man who looks ordinary but tears down gates and pillars by a strength that makes no sense.

Some tracks play like pure score, others like songs sung from inside the story, but the same themes keep resurfacing—motifs slipping between sax lines and vocals, big-band blasts giving way to quiet, wounded prayers. This is Judges as a jazz-shadowed myth: no king, too many gods, and a handful of fragile people trying to stand up in the ruin.

Shadow over the Valley

Cue of the Wanderers

Strange Fire

The Quiet Hand That Cuts

The Tree of Verdicts

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