Le Gisant: Sonic Resurrection at the Revolution Threshold.

In the cultural core of Paris, a society that cannot be classified by conventional means comes forth: the piece of music, poetry, and visual art, Le Comité Restreint, which makes the process of listening one of perception. Ever since their formation in 2017 under the name of Sabine Bouyala (writer) and Leo Pouzoulet (composer), the group has grown to include visual artist Genevieve Gleize, manager Max Imbert, and co-writer Jeremy Mahieu, creating a constellation of five artists with each artistic practice informing the others. Having held previous collaborations with sculptors, painters, and an immersive live performance at Avignon in 2023, Le Comité Restreint has established an unparalleled identity: that of an independent, introspective, and highly political one. They are now inviting you into a space where the personal and mass merge with each other, with the hauntingly evocative single, Le Gisant, which is the release of the next two albums, Revolution.

Le Gisant starts with stillness: synths reminiscent of breath hang over an underlying current and seem to be keeping alive the air between waking and sleeping. This stillness does not last long. Then, in a little time, rhythmic percussions, mechanical, urgent, start emerging, as pulses of consciousness pushing their way through the fog. The title, which translates to the recumbent one, implies the state of inertia, and the song reflects it – depicting the internal awakening of a creature who is between the worlds. The production is romantic but without resisting, gracious without being pushy, and emotionally expressive, but wordless in the truth. Its lyrics are a more poetic guide: going through the listeners, a psychological path that goes through silence to sound, numbness to movement. In this case, beauty is not adorned but initiatory, a conflict between the dark and the light, suffering and potential. It is not a narration but a transmission of the feeling of change by the voice, which is ghostlike and commanding.

Le Comité Restreint provides not merely a song with Le Gisant, but a kind of back door entry into their upcoming project, a double album, Revolution, which is sure to address the issue of existential stagnation with the artistic urgency of art. Revolution has been described as a descent into the caves of our solitude, the intention of Revolution being not to console, but to provoke. But Le Gisant is not cruel–it is direct, sentimental, and exquisite. It is a walk towards the realization of sonic architecture. The work of Le Comité Restreint lies in that area where the metaphor turns to movement–where motion only asks a question of immobility–where art only calls out to us, and bids us be awakened. Le Gisant, as a piece on its own, is memorable. It is monumental as an introduction to the next. This is not merely an album being made, but a revolution of perception, sound after sound.

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