Putting the weekend to bed and getting ready for what will most likely be another insane week with a set from Flavien Berger and La Brume, in concert at Le Bataclan in Paris – recorded on June 15 of this year by Radio France International.
Here is RFI’s notes regarding this concert which may explain a few things:
Ten years after his groundbreaking album, Leviathan was released to huge acclaim throughout Europe, Flavien Berger transforms his cult album with La Brume. For the first time with a live performance, he reinvents his electronic reveries into a collective experience at the Bataclan. A show hosted by Matthieu Conquet.
Ten years ago, Léviathan shook up French pop. A dizzying album, a sonic labyrinth between aquatic reveries and hallucinatory poetry, in which Flavien Berger drew us into his most intimate electronic abysses. Hypnotic loops à la Suicide, romantic enigmas crystallized in digital amber… this record has become much more than just an album: an indelible marker of the 2010s.
But what happens when a solitary creator decides to bring his creatures up from the depths? When the artist who composed alone in his studio finally dares to share his world?
To celebrate this decade of Leviathan , Flavien Berger took a magnificent risk: radically transforming his cult work with La Brume, a collective of musicians who reinvent the sound experience. Plouf! ( Leviathan ) is not just an anniversary album – it’s a rebirth. Each track becomes raw material, each melody is transformed and the cold electronics give way to a disturbing organic warmth.
This is the first time Flavien Berger has taken the stage with an accompaniment to promote this legendary album. Leviathan thus comes to life in a completely new form, in the legendary setting of the Bataclan. A sonic odyssey where the intimate meets the collective, where ten years of creative solitude finally explode into musical sharing. A unique experience that will be broadcast on France Inter. Dive into this aquatic rebirth. Let yourself be carried away by this extraordinary metamorphosis. Because some concerts change everything – and this is one of them.
Special thanks to RFI for the notes – I hope they helped you out if you aren’t already familiar.
