from Retrieving Beirut part 1​/​4, released August 7, 2020
Sylvgheist maëlström began to play electronic music in 1995. In addition to the universe of scholarly music (contemporary, in particular) in which he bathes since childhood, the musical influences of Julien are clearly identified: Einstürzende Neubauten, first, Orphx then. From this influence noise is born Sylvgheist Maëlström. In 1999, he went to Sweden for his architectural studies. It is there, in a country where the natural immensity is everywhere - colossal, dominant - that the concept Sylvgheist Maëlström really takes shape. Sylvgheist maëlström - literally «ghostly spirit of nature» - is indeed the sonic translation of the uncontrollable movement of the environment taking back its rights over civilization. Nature regulating itself, without regard to the human travelling through its lands. Thus, at the heart of the Sylvgheist Maëlström project, a question emerges as to the cyclical nature of catastrophic phenomena but also, more fundamentally, to the inevitability of destruction, the inexorable nature of deaths and disintegrations.


Music is a feeling and the right emanation of lived feelings. It is a direct and raw reaction, out of control, without premeditation. In concert, sylvgheist maëlström focuses on video to hypnotize the audience. Raw nature expression images combinates to sounds get an hypnotic and mesmering power. As an actual mental control by images, the process of this combination loses the audience in a duality of sensations and meditations. His current set is also turned to narcosis, the dream, the memory and the reminiscence…


Music and video links :

vimeo.com/273985797

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TRWcZZUu5Y

sylvgheistmaelstrom.bandcamp.com/album/norillag

vimeo.com/99315995

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcfHr8StYng