Ten years ago, Flavien Berger released Léviathan, his debut album following Gilded Glaze (2014), a fully instrumental and electronic EP, and Mars Balnéaire (2014), which told the story of a journey to the Red Planet. That first album marked the beginning of his “pop trilogy”, blending love ballads with underwater explorations.

Now, on its anniversary, Flavien returns with a completely reimagined version of these tracks, not merely a reinterpretation, but a quest into the past to rediscover his own music. Here, Flavien sets aside his usual creative process to embrace collaboration, as plouf! (Léviathan) is also the story of a dive, his first collective adventure with musicians he has always dreamed of working with: Michelle Blades (guitar), Kiala Ogawa (keys), Akemi Fujimori (bass), Cédric Laban (drums), and Thibaud Merle (winds).

Reworking songs, adapting them anew, is a way of exploring forgotten musical landscapes, of revisiting them in a new light, with a fresh perspective – transforming an electronic, solitary record into a collective piece by delving into new textures and instrumental approaches. With this album, Flavien Berger uses his early tracks as raw material, as though Léviathan (2015) had become a kind of “draft” from which to extract the essence and turn it into something new. The project, like the music itself, is driven by the idea of reinvention.

The result is a new sonic exploration where the tracks from Léviathan take on new forms – sometimes faithful to the originals, sometimes completely reimagined – merging the old and the new.