Et puis tu me regardes, le nouveau single de Lezart est enfin sorti!

 "Lastly, as I believed the night couldn't get any better, Lezart came on stage to blow the place up with Thomas Simard on keys and voice/guitar at times, Odilon on drums, Kéo on sax and traversial flute, Jean-Alexis Lessard bending notes on guitar and finally Nicolas Péladeau on bass . With their soul clothed through jazz pop formula, Sade-like atmospheric music with close intimite reminders to Jeff Beck's first album Truth where guitar, sax, piano and sweet ear candies  come and warm our soul; their music really transcendented the imaginary. [...] Their songs were rich yet unknown, to me, having been on stage for now only a year max, but it surely made an impact, a big one, as big as those who saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show, as big as the first man landing on the moon, and many more. Every song was like a firework, Boom and then everybody cheered! By the end, Back To the Old House by the Smiths is played and the Saxophonist delivers the last blow with a traversial flute à la Jethro Tull to make sure we are all subjugated and sublimed by their vast arsenal of talents. Their influences ranging from Radiohead, Karkwa, Julien Fillion have all but to shy away if ever they would see Lezart on stage, because as I said, these boys have talent. Now I hope they'll have as much ambition to go on far."

Back when I first encountered Lezart, I was blown away, I wanted to see em' everywhere! On all festival lineups and more. But they had yet to release a single, which made it hard to get em' on list for any big events. But now, we can all sleep better, their first single titled, Et puis tu me regardes is finally out on all platforms! 

It's a blend between Dark Side of The Moon's reverb vocals sitting a top of picturesque guitar riffs, Miles Davis egyptian scales on trompette leading the listener on top of summits such pyramids and all what one can imagine, yet the flow and their french singing brings us back to the local influences such as Désert Alimentaire de Comment Debord, as Lezarts song races faster and faster around 2:40. By 4 minutes, a full on psychedelic tryptomaniac trip unfurls and I advise the listeners to hold on to their earpods or to any near rigid surface, because I does get very usntable, yet it remains magnificient. In short, the song is beautiful, it's like a heavy rain followed by an enormous rainbow. Simply a hell of a trip yet the result and ending are quite satisfying. 

You should all go and listen if you are fan of Maneige, King Crimson, French singing, Miles Davis, Egyptian Jazz, Pink Floyd and any weird trippy softening music in general. I order every reader to do so, right now! And they now have merch, so be on the lookout at their next unannouced show, support them and buy some merch to become part of the Lezart Club!