La Route des Alpes takes us on a journey through the Alps of 1921—an emotion-filled trip between ambient, electronica, and IDM, guided by the music of DNGLS (Maxime Dangles mist side), who first caught attention in 2016 with his album Lukarne and a memorable cine-concert for A Beautiful Planet at the legendary venue La Géode, followed by shows at La Cigale, Rex Club, Astropolis, and a stunning France TV recording in immersive binaural sound.


Still lurking in the shadows or in the mist that defines his music - deeply influenced by artists such as Burial – DNGLS returns with this album, originally commissioned by the Scène Nationale du Lux in Valence for a cine-concert on André Bayard's 1921 silent film.


This composition is an exploration of a world and a mountain that no longer exist—through Évian, the Col du Galibier, Mont Blanc... Epic flights echoing the grandeur of the landscapes, a deep sense of nostalgia, darker tracks shaped by the harshness of the elements, later contrasted by the lightness of clearings traced by his synthesizers—a fragile, skin-deep composition elevated by immersive and masterful sound design.


"La route des Alpes - 1921" is a sensory journey, a meditation on time and memory, where escape becomes a refuge.[info sheet from distr.]