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He tries to find the melody that drove the keepers of the cursed lighthouse of Tévennec crazy.

2022-02-25T06:22:47.174Z


The musician Molécule, a pioneer of nomadic electronic music, spent five days in the building which provided security for the passage of the Raz de Sein. In this abandoned place, he conceived his new record. Ten titles that capture the fury of the sea.


Located off the tip of Van in the south of Finistère, in the middle of the Iroise Sea in the passage of the Raz de Sein, the

"cursed"

lighthouse of Tévennec came back to life for five days.

Considered the pioneer of

"nomadic"

electronic music , Molécule, Romain De La Haye-Serafini in civil status, composed entirely in situ, during a spring storm, his new album

Tévennec

from the noises of the waves and swell,

“mystical”

and even

“unknown”

sounds .

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"I like to go to places where the elements are strongest, since I have become aware, over time, of the links that unite man to nature",

confides the artist to

Figaro

.

A Parisian for twenty years, Molécule, whose real name is Romain De La Haye-Serafini, has been developing this project for a decade.

“I have passed several times off the lighthouse and it has always intrigued me

,” he explains, emphasizing the authenticity of this marine monument built in 1869.

“Tévennec is the first lighthouse in Europe to be built according to a housing model,

he specifies.

But the musician seeks above all to reveal the secrets of this place filled with legends, where most of its guardians have in turn been struck either by brutal death or by madness.

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The first theory to explain these strange phenomena is the one that has been running in Finistère for several decades.

She attributes these sounds to the figure of Ankou, the personification of death in Breton culture, who is said to have led twenty-three of the lighthouse keepers to death or shipwreck.

But a scientific explanation has put forward the existence of a rock fault located below the lighthouse.

The waves and the wind would come and rush into it to produce sounds that are difficult for human ears to bear.

The artist has another hypothesis:

“According to my theory, it was not this flaw that drove the keepers crazy, but the fact that the sound rotated 360 degrees non-stop.

As the days go by, we hear what our imagination suggests to us.

It's quite disturbing, we have strange sensations and dizziness”,

says the one who perceives the lighthouse as

“a place between life and death”

.

“Inside the lighthouse, the sounds are quite muted.

But outside, it's a real wave."

Romain De La Haye-Serafini

Accompanied during this experience by Marc Pointud, the only one to hold the keys to this seventeen-meter high marine monument, Molécule left with a simple duvet, a tent, a toothbrush and his musical instruments.

The artist had a unique experience in this cursed lighthouse plagued by raging winds:

“It's a damp place, there was neither water nor electricity.

We slept upstairs in tents surrounded by thousands of woodlice, then we went downstairs every day, in three dark and cramped rooms, to compose

.

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During these five days, the musician composed his music facing the sea, on the ground floor of the lighthouse.

Romain De La Haye-Serafini

The artist very quickly reveals his process of musical creation:

"The instruments continuously captured all possible frequencies and sounds, facing the sea, day and night."

He was thus able to keep and tame all the sounds emitted inside and outside the lighthouse.

His solfège declined in vibrations and magnetic modulations punctuated by drops in temperature and drops in atmospheric pressure.

Until using a theremin, the oldest electronic musical instrument, created in Russia in the 1920s.

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“I was a bit frustrated that I couldn't stay longer.

But it was an intense little slice, with feelings still inscribed deep inside me”

, confides the musician again, after having captured, day and night, all possible sounds.

“But it was an intense little slice, with feelings still written deep inside me,”

he continues, before mentioning several of his projects.

In 2013, Romain De La Haye-Serafini also traveled to Brittany, this time to the North, to the port of Saint-Malo.

For thirty-four days, aboard a trawler, the artist braved the extreme conditions of the North Atlantic Ocean, on the borders of Iceland and Scotland, for his album

60°43 Nord

.

Six years later, the musician went to Portugal, to Nazaré, to record an album composed in the heart of the biggest waves on the planet, recounting the sounds of the ocean and the cries of surfers, facing this wall of water of about twenty meters.

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Released on February 18, the album and its ten titles, the two most structured of which open and close the disc, are only

“available on vinyl to remain atypical even in the discography”,

specifies the artist.

A project that he intends to renew, after having finished his first studio album, which he is currently recording far from the coast of Brittany, in Paris.

Source: lefigaro

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