The rock music scene is not particularly conducive to exporting the language of Molière, as we know, but Lazuli breaks down barriers. In just a few years, the band has become France’s ambassador on the biggest international progressive rock stages. Its notes and words have become a universal language. Heirs to Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd, among others, the band from the Gard region stands out for its uniqueness, its unusual instrumentation and the invention of a unique instrument: the Léode. Somewhere between rock, chanson, electro and world music, Lazuli’s atypical, dreamlike and exploratory music takes us off the beaten track. Lazuli envisages its songs as canvases, mixing colours, depicting its world or repainting it. Somewhere between Jacques Prévert and Tim Burton, the words question the ills of the present day. The ethereal, tightrope-walking voice, full of wordplay, sings to us about humanity in all its forms and ‘deforms’. We are alternately carried away or caught up in turmoil, time stands still or speeds up…