Pirogue’s first EP evokes a journey, where gentle holiday experiences (Holidays, Je Glisse), simple pleasures (Contre toi), and phases of hallucinations (L’Extase, Fleur d’Altitude) parade. Perceptions are amplified in a kind of ecstasy of the senses. The last piece, “Le Goût du vrai”, suggests that this escape is purely interior or imaginary.
The whole thing is dream pop with a slight groove and psychedelic hues. A bouquet of influencesranging from jazz to shoegaze, where multiple musical plots are reconciled in a chimerical whole.
Will (vocals guitar) was nurtured as a child by early pink floyd albums that his father passed in the car when they went skiing at dawn in the Pyrenees. Later, groups such as My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab or Ride illuminated his adolescence.
Paul’s ear (guitar, synthesizers) is built on listening to his father’s vinyl records: Johnny Guitar Watson, Oscar Peterson, Michael Jackson or Herbie Hancock. He then studied jazz in Berklee, where he developed his taste for improvisation and arrangements around new musical colors.
On his return he start a collaboration with Will and a friendship is formed. The duo now offers pieces in French on futuristic retro tunes.