Listen: Flore Laurentienne – ‘(À travers les) Chablis’

“From chaos comes harmony”, says Mathieu David Gagnon, composer behind the Flore Laurentienne project, about ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, the new single released today. The piece opens with a free jazz improvisation duet on drums, joined by two harps. From this tumult emerges light, embodied by a string melody, like a refusal to give in to disenchantment. The last piece on the album Volume III, ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, hints at what might be next for Flore Laurentienne. Watch the visualiser here.

Although this series is coming to an end, Flore Laurentienne’s music continues to be relevant in culture and conversation. Three of his pieces feature in the film Nino, winner of the César Award for Best First Film, directed by Pauline Loquès and starring Théodore Pellerin, who won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in the film. In addition, the track “Petit piano” from Volume I accompanies Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2026 campaign featuring Jeremy Allen White. Gagnon also partnered with Moog Synthesizers to showcase his studio and musical process, a conversation you can watch here.

The message, the shareable essence, on this third album by Flore Laurentienne, is light; it is the seed in the ground that becomes a plant and then a flower, blooming at its peak and then inevitably wilting so that the cycle can begin again; it is the quest for beauty in chaos, from which harmony is born. On Volume III, Mathieu David Gagnon and his Flore Laurentienne return to celebrate the magnificence of the river and its floral and sylvan surroundings.

This new milestone also marks the end of a trilogy that began in 2019 with Volume I – with the inherent and parallel aspiration of reaching a third volume in order to pay tribute to Volume 3, L’Infonie’s (a Quebec cult collective that blended jazz, prog, art music, and poetry) first album. The latter did not influence Flore Laurentienne’s music per se, but rather its conception of freedom in composition, combining classical and improvisation.

Stream / download ‘(À travers les) Chablis’ here.
Pre-order / pre-save Volume III here.