With their latest single “Le Gisant,” Paris-based artistic collective Le Comité Restreint deliver a piece of music that is as haunting as it is illuminating. Released on the 3rd of October 2025, the track serves as a striking preview of their forthcoming double album “Révolution,” which is set to arrive in November. As the fourth track on the album, “Le Gisant” dives deep into the painful yet necessary process of awakening—where silence meets sound, and stillness begins to move.
Le Comité Restreint has always stood apart for their ability to merge music, poetry, and visual art into a single, immersive language. Founded in 2017 by Sabine Bouyala and Léo Pouzoulet, the collective later welcomed Geneviève Gleize, Max Imbert, and Jérémy Mahieu, forming a powerful artistic unit. Over the years, they’ve built a reputation for crafting layered, sensory worlds where the personal collides with the political. Their first EP arrived in 2019, followed by an album in 2021, and their immersive live performance in Avignon in 2023 marked a turning point in their creative journey.
“Le Gisant” embodies their evolution. The song’s title—meaning “The Recumbent”—evokes an image of someone caught between life and stillness. The lyrics and soundscape reflect this liminal space, portraying the slow, painful emergence from unconsciousness into a state of awareness. The collective has described the song as illustrating “the movement of consciousness,” like a body awakening from a coma to meet its own destiny.
Sonically, the track is built around powerful, mechanical rhythms, electric percussion, and dreamy, floating synthsthat weave together like breaths taken in darkness. The instrumental is both delicate and forceful, creating a tension that mirrors the emotional core of the song. The voice at the center does not shout or demand; it guides, gently but firmly, through the crossing between immobility and light. It’s a song of thresholds.
More than just a single, “Le Gisant” is a bridge into the world of “Révolution,” the collective’s upcoming double album. Described as an artistic manifesto, the album promises to be a poetic and sensory odyssey—a descent into solitude and an ascent into transformation. It explores how individuals and societies awaken, fracture, and rebuild. The metaphor of “orbit” runs through their vision: a journey that shakes and rebuilds, asking listeners to confront their doubts and step into change.
What makes Le Comité Restreint particularly compelling is their commitment to art as more than entertainment. Their work is a call to movement, an emotional and intellectual provocation. The beauty of “Le Gisant” comes not from ease, but from its tension—the moment before breath becomes speech, before stillness turns to revolution.
“Le Gisant” is a rare track that doesn’t just tell a story; it creates an atmosphere that lingers long after the final note fades. It’s both unsettling and uplifting, like stepping into a shadow and realizing it’s full of light. If this is any indication of what “Révolution” holds, listeners can expect a project that pushes emotional and artistic boundaries with elegance and force.
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