Plouf ! / Léviathan

Description

Ten years ago, Flavien Berger released Léviathan, his first album after Gilded Glaze (2014), an entirely instrumental and electronic EP, then Mars Balnéaire (2014), which told the story of a journey to the red planet. A first album launching his “pop trilogy,” in which love ballads mingled with underwater explorations. Today, for its anniversary, Flavien returns with a completely reinvented version of his tracks, not as a simple exercise in reinterpretation, but as a quest into the past to rediscover his music. Here, Flavien abandons his usual creative process to open himself up to collaboration, because Plouf ! (Léviathan) is also the story of a dive, that of a first collective adventure with musicians he has always dreamed of collaborating with: Michelle Blades (guitar), Kiala Ogawa (keyboards), Akemi Fujimori (bass), Cédric Laban (drums) and Thibaud Merle (winds). Taking songs back, readapting them, is a way of exploring forgotten musical landscapes, of crossing them again in a different light, with a different perspective. Transforming an electronic and solitary record into a collective work, by exploring new textures and instrumental approaches. Through this album, Flavien Berger uses his first tracks as raw material from which the essence must be extracted in order to make a new object. The result is a new sonic exploration in which the tracks from Leviathan take on unprecedented forms, sometimes faithful to the original tracks, sometimes entirely reinvented, or where the old and the new blend together.