Francis Alban Blake is the pseudonym of Dutch poet, philosopher, and musician Frans de Blaak (1974-2022). He went missing in 2018. Family and friends went through is years of diaries and notebooks and concluded that he had disappeared willfully. Early 2019 Frank Bond (AlascA, King Forward Records, Space is the Place studio) was given permission by Francis Blake's family to complete the recordings of his unfinished record "Passages". To meet Francis Alban Blake’s written will, this record was released on 1 April 2022, accompanied by an assembled mumbo-jumbo chest of rituals with which he could allegedly be summoned from another dimension. All mocking aside, just four months after the release of this record, Francis Alban Blake was found dead in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, on the 29th of July 2022. As a swan song release, his last collection of songs entitled 'Spells' has been completed by Frank Bond. Unlike the more orchestral and layered album Passages, Spells is a songwriter record with simple small arrangements that Francis recorded to tape briefly before his disappearance.