Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet - Les Rivières Sont des Chemins qui Marchent (2026)

The third collection by French abstractionist Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet was developed during a residency in Thiers and the Dore Valley in central France, which was once a thriving hub of paper mills, workshops, and tanneries powered by the Dore and Durolle rivers. Inspired by the region’s abandoned factories, and visions of the workers who once animated these places, Rosnet sought to echo their gestures and rhythms, crafting mosaics of intimacy and disorientation with modular synth, tape loops, and elemental sounds: flowing water, clattering machines, resonant metal.

The title translates as “rivers are roads that move,” alluding to the album's muse of transience and texture, erosion and evolution, melancholy and drift. It’s music as deep listening divining rod, attuned to the traces of memory murmuring from cracks, rust, soil, and subcurrents. Eight glimpses through the veil, equal parts tribute and eulogy.