Pias news – Grégoire Gerstmans – Hypnagoge
GRÉGOIRE GERSTMANS UNVEILS TITLE TRACK "HYPNAGOGIE"
DEBUT ALBUM 'HYPNAGOGIE' OUT ON NOVEMBER 29, 2024
VIA [PIAS] RECORDINGS BELGIUM
08.12.2024 — BOTANIQUE, BRUSSELS (RELEASE PARTY)
Grégoire Gerstmans - Hypnagogie [clip officiel] (youtube.com)
After a resounding success at Les Nuits Botanique festival in 2023, a spellbinding gig alongside Mary Lattimore this summer, and 500.000 streams on debut track Aujourd'hui, Liège-based pianist Grégoire Gerstmans — noticed for his instrumental cover of Apocalypse (Cigarettes After Sex) — today unveils a third single and title track from his forthcoming debut album: Hypnagogie.
A new track with a pure and hypnotic melody that refers to the state of semi-consciousness between wakefulness and sleep:
"'Hypnagogie' is a track that calls for a state of calm, of waking sleep. The melody is profoundly naked. It runs through your head like a little nursery rhyme that reminds you of your childhood. There's a desire in this track to get back to simplicity, to get back to who I really am. Raw emotion".
The track is accompanied by a dreamlike video directed by Théo Fauger, based on an idea by Grégoire. Together they've recreated his childhood bedroom:
"Younger, I had a music box on my bedside table. I'd hear the notes, close my eyes and gently drift off to sleep. It's magical when dreams and reality meet. The moment when things become lighter. Our ideas become fuzzier and fuzzier and subtly slip into a world where everything becomes possible.
Following in the footsteps of the likes of Nils Frahm, Philip Glass and Ólafur Arnalds, Grégoire Gerstmans is gradually establishing himself as a key player on the European neo-classical scene. With a raw, unadorned piano sound, the artist has developed a highly personal universe between modernity and tradition.
Passionate about music, but also about video and photography, the composer strives to create an all-encompassing, beautiful and sensitive body of work — just like his music.
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