After a resounding success at Les Nuits Botanique festival in 2023, a spellbinding gig alongside Mary Lattimore this summer, and 500.000 streams on debut track Aujourd'hui, Liège-based pianist Grégoire Gerstmans — noticed for his instrumental cover of Apocalypse (Cigarettes After Sex) — today unveils a third single and title track from his forthcoming debut album: Hypnagogie.
A new track with a pure and hypnotic melody that refers to the state of semi-consciousness between wakefulness and sleep:
"'Hypnagogie' is a track that calls for a state of calm, of waking sleep. The melody is profoundly naked. It runs through your head like a little nursery rhyme that reminds you of your childhood. There's a desire in this track to get back to simplicity, to get back to who I really am. Raw emotion".
The track is accompanied by a dreamlike video directed by Théo Fauger, based on an idea by Grégoire. Together they've recreated his childhood bedroom: