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Flavien Berger is back with an amazing project dedicated to plants
The musician Flavien Berger, revealed in 2015, is back with a new mixtape dedicated to plants, De la friche. Between sound ballads and whispered poems, the vintage-looking object captivates with its enveloping softness.
Designed to be listened to by plants, Mort Garson’s album Plantasia (1976) ushered in a post-hippie era and revolutionized electronic music. As a worthy heir to the musician, Flavien Berger is back with a mixtape on the theme of urban plants. Essentially instrumental, the 35-year-old Frenchman’s conceptual opus is surprising. Three years after Contre-Temps, where the artist collaborated with Bonnie Banane and Jacques, this mixtape is the result of a year and a half of solitary research.
Conceived as a series of musical studies, the object is inspired by the atmosphere of urban wastelands and country gardens. Poetic, the project, released on cassette, brings together 22 soft and enveloping chants where everything is germination, flowering, exploration. This sound walk called De la Friche is an experimental adventure where the musician takes us on a fascinating street and sound walk. In the same spirit, the producer and DJ Joakim, concerned about environmental issues, released an album called Seconde Nature at the end of August, dedicated to the fertility of the plant world. This year more than ever, you will have to have a green thumb (and ear)…
De la friche (2021) by Flavien Berger, Pan European Recording, available on cassette and on YouTube.
