Flore Laurentienne—the project of composer and orchestrator Mathieu David Gagnon—returns with ‘Fleuve VII’, a new piece from his upcoming album Volume III, arriving April 10. This new work highlights a delicate dialogue between the piano and the string orchestra, carried by minimalist and hypnotic writing. Mathieu David Gagnon explains: “I created this series of pieces, called Fleuve, based on a fairly simple concept: reusing the same chords, but in a different...
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Flore Laurentienne — the project of composer and orchestrator Mathieu David Gagnon — unveils Volume III, a new album out April 10. The first single, ‘Régate’, evokes a rapid shift in perspective, resulting in a lively race between a synthesizer ostinato and a string orchestra. On stage, the project’s seven musicians will embark on a European tour in the spring, with six dates already announced, from London to Paris via...
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Flore Laurentienne announces an expanded edition of the outfit’s 2024 album 8 tableaux, out September 13th. Flore Laurentienne also shares a brand-new track entitled ‘Les oies III’, which premiered last Sunday on KEXP’s show Pacific Notions. Watch Flore Laurentienne perform a special KEXP session from last fall below! The digital deluxe edition of 8 tableaux features four new songs, each expanding on Gagnon’s method of transmuting visual art into musical...
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