Lara Somogyi + ‪Jean-Michel Blais - “oasis” (Official Visualizer)

‪@laraharp‬ x ‪@jeanmichelblais‬ • “oasis”
Taken from the forthcoming album ‘désert deluxe’ available to preorder and presave here: https://lsxjmb.lnk.to/desert

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Improvised in one sitting by Lara Somogyi and Jean-Michel Blais

© 2025 Universal Music Operations Limited
© 2025 Faber Alt. and Les Éditions du Chenal

Produced by Cyrus Reynolds and Devon Bate
Recorded and mixed by Cyrus Reynolds
Mastered by John Webber

Recorded and mixed at Moonrock Studios, USA
Mastered at Air Mastering, UK

Video content by Lara Somogyi
Design by Nate Utesch

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like a mirage lingering at the edge of an original journey, this extension of the album désert gathers four pieces uncovered after the fact. still drawn from the same improvisation session in the heart of Joshua Tree’s desert, they emerged from the interstices, the porous silences, where attention drifts and gestures escape all intention. neither sketches nor castoffs, these pieces act as sensitive annexes, as dreamlike extensions. they prolong the desert’s echo, yet also part ways with it. more intimate, more authentic, more honest, as if memory, in returning, revealed forgotten paths. passage, résilience, oasis, voiles: four suspended moments, four revealing detours, forming a poetic counter-map, free and off-frame.

in the heart of aridity, this is no mirage, but truly an oasis. a soft, round, suspended emergence. the notes fall like rare, slow, generous drops, offered without premeditation beneath the shade of a fragile canopy. harp and piano meet here without urgency, sketching a sonic clearing, a landscape of water and rest. the sounds bloom in spareness, rocked by an extended time. even the echo seems to drink. oasis lasts but a moment, and yet that moment suffices to revive. a generous pause, a fertile interlude, a pocket of clarity in the turmoil of the journey.