A new release by Sébastien Tellier, one of France's most intregueing artists, with the astonishing video for Pépito Bleu featuring Téllier in full-on messianic mode.
The track fits well into the current move in electronic music to a more progressive aesthetic, with suggestions of Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd, 70s Gainsbourg and in the science-fiction video perhaps a nod to the epic sci-fi book Dune.
Epic is probably an understatement.
The song comes from his forthcoming album My God if Blue, and Tellier's website continues the messianic theme ahed of its release, with a statement: "What you are now witnessing is the birth of a spirit. L'Alliance Bleue will spread over Earth through you and reign as a sweet master of your heart. Guided by my precepts your soul will recive the ultimate reward a believer can get: eternal bliss. Freed from the past, and freed from your genetic prison, you'll then become One among ourselves."
With regard the record, Tellier says: "Don't listen to my album, listen to my message, enter into vibration with my music, let's merge our dreams together, spreading this communal energy in an immense blue wave that will wash over the world - and the truth will emerge."
My God is Blue is released on March 20, and is already looking like one of 2012's most interesting releases. Tellier is a unique artist, and whether eccentric or ironic he brings a much needed iconoclasm to the music scene.
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