Pias news – Grégoire Gerstmans – new track ‘hypnagogie’
GRÉGOIRE GERSTMANS UNVEILS CAPTIVATING LIVE SESSION FOR NEW TRACK "HYPNAGOGIE"

DEBUT ALBUM 'HYPNAGOGIE' OUT ON NOVEMBER 29, 2024 VIA [PIAS] RECORDINGS BELGIUM
08.12.2024 — BOTANIQUE, BRUSSELS (RELEASE PARTY)
The quiet sounds of the night, the strings striking, the softness of the touch, the melancholy of the notes, the flicker of neon lights... Recorded one summer evening in Spa and directed by Simon Vanrie, the live session you are about to watch is a true gem of delicacy

Following in the footsteps of Arvo Pärt, Joep Beving and Nils Frahm, Belgian pianist Grégoire Gerstmans delivers here a rare moment of purity. 5'23 of intimacy, a shot of poetry. Like his instrumental compositions, it's all about purity and languour.

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".
After a resounding success at Les Nuits Botanique festival in 2023, a spellbinding gig alongside Mary Lattimore this summer, and 500K streams on debut track Aujourd'hui, Grégoire Gerstmans — noticed for his instrumental cover of Apocalypse (Cigarettes After Sex) — will release his debut album on November 29, also entitled Hypnagogie.

Grégoire Gerstmans - Hypnagogie (Live session)

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.