Agoria has announced new album “Unshadow” released on 11th October via his Sapiens label.
On his words:
“As a musician and producer, after five albums, I clearly know that my proposition will always be about diversity more than a single crafted sound. This is how I am: multifaceted, nourished by social human exchanges and my encounters in science, art, and technology. I have one life and different bodies. I can be physical and digital, technological and organic, house, techno, and soul. This album is about shedding light in a vertical period where the fight for truth and visibility becomes crucial, where Blockchain might become our right to vote. It’s about making complex things sound simpler, joining the dots. A proposition more than a promise: Unshadow.”
Artist: Agoria
Release: Unshadow
Label: Sapiens
Release Date: October 11, 2024
Tracks:
1. Teardrops feat. Noemie, Rami Khalife
2. Heart To Heart feat. STS, Sacha Rudy
3. Getaway feat. Madison McFerrin
4. Olympe feat. NDRK, Yacine Dessouki
5. Quiero
6. Sunshine feat. Dominique Fils-Aimé
7. I Love You More Than Myself feat. Rome Fortune
8. Metamorphosis feat. Natalie Slade
9. I Feel Good
10. Spacer feat. Mooglie, Noemie
Sapiens: A Story of an Elf, AGORIA, and Cosmic Atmosphere…
For once, the Elf had sat down. Generally, he prefers to levitate, to be suspended, to expand, to diffract… “to space out!” But this green armchair, “vintage 2001” (like the title of Agoria’s second album, *The Green Armchair*), with that strange Sapiens dancing while seated, was just too tempting.
This Sapiens is named Sébastien Devaud; since ancient Greece, Sebastians have been Sapiens destined to be revered. Pfff, another Sapiens oddity. Among elves, we breathe, we don’t venerate. Anyway. But according to the data received via atmospheric transmission, this Sapiens is indeed revered by an Agoria of crazy Sapiens, endlessly dancing, hopping around, and wearing a sort of perpetual blissful “smile.” For three minutes and thirty seconds of Sapiens time, on a kind of sound that seems to walk in the sky while climbing a cosmic ladder, bouncing higher and higher thanks to a magical potion created by Sébastien and titled *I Feel Good*, these Sapiens become completely illuminated. Well, it’s only for three minutes and thirty seconds… an elf is illuminated and in perpetual total motion for millions of Sapiens years! And I dare to say it, even if it’s unpleasant to hear, but elves don’t need to resort to that thing Sapiens call AI, like in the images shown on screens (Sapiens are very prehistoric and don’t know about 7D atomic images) to “shamanize” this *I Feel Good*. You see beautiful hallucinations and also this hero, from behind, who seems to be seeking the extraordinary everywhere, even facing a demonic spirit: just for pleasure! “It’s just insane,” the English Sapiens would say. All this to say that when the Elf sat down in the chair, communication with the Sapiens was immediate; from a cosmic point of view, of course. Not verbal at all, because the Sapiens doesn’t speak Elvish and the Elf doesn’t speak Sapiens. It should also be noted that this Sapiens is somewhat special; he is an artist who creates sounds but also sound and visual installations. In 2024, Sébastien Devaud, also known as Agoria, conceived an exhibition with several scientists and designers entitled *Le Code d’Orsay*. For music as well as visual art, and digital NFT experiences, Sébastien is a Sapiens who loves to imagine, to create, with other Sapiens, improbable collaborations in the sense that no one knows what they will lead to.
Sébastien is a perpetual seeker of improbabilities. At the Musée d’Orsay, he created a sculpture and an experience that united the physical with the virtual, the living with the coded. You don’t understand a thing? It took me a while to grasp it, but it’s a real trip. Connect to the spider’s web they call the web [https://agoria.dev/](https://agoria.dev/).
In trying to simplify to the extreme, Sébastien, along with scientists, managed to introduce living beings into Courbet’s most famous painting, *The Painter’s Studio*, to modify the composition of the work’s protagonists based on the impact of a century of Sapiens history on these beings! The scientists looked at the effect of pollution from the industrial revolution in the 19th century on the Sapiens, as well as the manipulation of minds during dictatorships (Napoleon)… and this altered the painting, as well as the beings it represents. It’s complex, I admit, but so is all of Sébastien’s work. Complexity generates happiness! That’s what the Elf said to him on the green chair: I love you because you create sound loves that make Sapiens happy, like in that track *Quiero* from his latest album *Unshadow*. Sapiens is a kind of sound gravitation that allows one to reach “Olympus.” Agoria is absolutely Elvish! With Sapiens, we fly through sound with his Friends and Elves! Is it possible? No, it’s Agoria’s reality.
I dance, I levitate, I am an Elf.
info by Fabrice Bousteau
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