With Siècle (french for Century), composer, performer, and producer Superpoze explores the passage of time through eight electronic pieces, where life pulses, burns, and wanes.

For over a decade, Superpoze (Gabriel Legeleux, born in 1992) has been exploring, with a spirit of adventure, a world that is both serious and playful, sensitive yet demanding, where technique and emotion intertwine. If Opening, his debut album (2015), introduced a striking and melancholic electronic sound, Nova Cardinale, his latest release (2022), carried a different ambition: to bring together baroque instruments and synthetic textures, creating a dialogue between eras and genres. This fourth album, Siècle, stands as a junction between these different artistic approaches. By reimagining the relationships between sounds and techniques from the past ten years, Superpoze blends an ageless lyricism with a sharp, contemporary electronic sound.

With Siècle, he delivers a cutting-edge album, where beauty reveals itself with brutal intensity. To bring it to life, Gabriel Legeleux first gathered melodies and timbres that obsessed him. He searched for harmonies on the piano and hunted for textures through machines. From this sonic material, he assembled, layered, and fused fragments, composing as one would shape chaos.

The rhythmic backbone of this album is its percussive elements: recorded with drum machines, primarily a TR-909, sharpened and precise, they drive the music forward with relentless momentum. This structure allows spectral voices, piano arpeggios, and deep synthetic basslines to roam freely, unrestrained. The result is a haunted soundscape, both menacing and pierced with light.

Here, acoustic and electronic sounds do not merely blend; they interact, contradict, and collide. Between the towering columns of electronic music, strings, organic textures, and silences carve out spaces to exist. In this album, everything confronts everything else. Each element emerges as a near-chemical reaction to what precedes it.

"Statues", which opens the record, lays the foundations of Superpoze’s compositions: vibrant sounds, relentless rhythms, and the collision between instruments and machines. Following it, "Obsession" unfolds a motif that repeats with both intensity and grace, while "Siècle", a cinematic piece built around a piano loop, stands as the album’s beating heart.

Both vibrant and deep, the music on this album is sharp yet immersive. Emerging from it feels like completing a journey, with Earth on the horizon, its glimmers, its calm, and its light. The listener experiences a newfound sense of peace, one that follows the confrontation of fears.

Siècle stands as both the memory and the anticipation of a time when we have burned, whether with desire or anxiety, passion or anger. This time is not that of an imaginary world, but of our own, here and now. There exists a world within the world, where our impulses thaw and awaken.
A musical realm where, like the tree on the album cover, we will have set ourselves ablaze.