Paupière, is a Montreal based band, who make music based on their love of 80s techno and pop music. The duo, comprised of visual artist Julia Daigle and Pierre-Luc Bégin (Polipe, We Are Wolves), recently released their debut album for Lisbon Lux Records (Radiant Baby, Le Couleur), Sade Sati. Today, they are sharing a video for the title-track.

Julia Daigle on “Sade Sati:”

I really enjoy this track and, particularly in terms of creating visuals to accompany it, love the conceptual underpinnings of the song and where it came from. Really rich material to explore in terms of creating a visual narrative, and Julia and Pierre-Luc have been wonderful partners, letting me really run with the idea in this video. It was especially a pleasure working with Julia on this video, as she is a naturally gifted performer and give so much nuance and texture to these on screen roles.

In “Paupière”, there is “peau” (skin) and “pierre” (stone), the organic and the mineral, sensitivity and hardness. Paupière, with its raw words and uncompromising melodies, confirms with its new album, Sade Sati, its desire for authentic expression. In “Paupière”, there is also the word “pop” as in Pop music. Their writing services the melody, offering us songs filled with these catchy little phrases that turn and turn in our heads until they’re fully anchored in our memories.

Mixing English synth-pop and French songs, Paupière is a “neo-romantic” band. If one can hear echoes of Human League, Deux or Depeche Mode, their intertwined voices sing of the adolescent and hedonistic romanticism of the 80’s as much as contemporary disenchantment.

According Indian astrology “Sade Sati” represents the result of our past karma. A challenging period that is also full of accomplishments. According to the legend, the phenomenon would manifest itself every 7 years.

It’s an inevitable, but agonizing, period for those who want to fulfill their true destiny, in other words the “30 year’s old life crisis”, which marks the end of naivety. It rules our inner clock in a deep, slow, but sensitive way. It’s cycles are known for bringing forward major turning points in our lives.

Paupière invites us here on an astral journey to visit dark places pierced by light like luminous cracks and where adventures are populated with inner ghosts that come from far away. In this story Pierre-Luc and Julia represent fictional characters, twins who are lost in a futuristic world, the lone survivors of a planet after chaos. Sade Sati is a metaphor or the entry into adulthood with its share of worries and the feeling of freedom and rebirth that comes with it. The album is divided into three parts : Chaos, Flight and Liberation, which summarize the creative and personal past of the band.

With the support of producer Vincent Levesque (We Are Wolves), who has been with Paupière since their beginnings, they have integrated organic instrumentation that enriches the electronic compositions of the album while keeping their sound signature intact.

Sade Sati
Track List
Lisbon Lux Records

Sade Sati
Coeur monarque
En ce matin
Enfant dragon
Objet volant
New Balance
Singe
Visite en territoire hostile
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