Philippe Lamiral Poirier & Roméo Poirier - Images parlées

Philippe Lamiral Poirier & Roméo Poirier
Images parlées
Images parlées
Belgium, 2026
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Roméo Poirier’s work has long been haunted by the past, from the faded beachside postcard evoked by Hotel Nota to the in-between sounds captured in recording studios on last year’s excellent Off The Record. On his latest, Poirier works with an archive much closer to home: the spoken word recordings of his father, the painter, filmmaker, set designer, and musician Philippe Lamiral Poirier, who passed in 2025. With the younger’s beautiful, liminal ambient exotica arrangements, the duo evoke an abstracted take on ’70s French psychedelia, like Serge Gainsbourg in repose.

FROM THE LABEL:

Besides his work as a painter, filmmaker and set designer, Philippe Lamiral Poirier (1951-2025) played guitar and saxophone in the group Kat Onoma, which he co-founded with Rodolphe Burger.
His fifth studio album combines his written texts with music composed by his son, Roméo Poirier, whom he considered to be cut from the same musical cloth as he was. It also confirms what has emerged from his previous albums, namely songs more spoken than sung and whose words evoke images, thus the album’s title – Images parlées.

A book of his paintings, Images traversées, will be published simultaneously with the album.

In this continual back and forth movement between text and image, music has always been present – sensitive and abstract, expressing nothing other than itself. It hollows out a place to tell us where we are. It is life without delay.