*200 copies limited release* After Le jardin perdu (2023) and Depuis les cimes (2025), Antoine Bellanger takes another new turn with La flûte, an album that continues along his singular path between song, poetry, illustration, and documentary storytelling. “In middle school, my music teacher told me I would never make music. Later, when studying drawing proved out of reach, I decided to turn to music instead. Thirty years later, here is La Flûte, an album full of flutes and poetry, in which I also ask artist friends about their creative processes.”

With La flûte, Antoine Bellanger offers another album that is just as personal and moving as his previous ones, while introducing a new instrumental palette: piano, tuba, violin, flute… He is joined by several musician friends—Carla Pallone (Mansfield.TYA, Vacarme), Cico Beck (The Notwist, Images of Goo), and Michel Le Faou—as well as Ludovico Paladini, Séverine Lefèvre, Sonia Garcia, and Grégory Cuquel, who are interviewed throughout the record. At once a collection of irresistible lo-fi songs and a series of documentary interviews about art, dance, creativity, and love, La flûte brings all these fragments together with disarming clarity. The result is a singular, warm journey—like an escape with your closest friends—where songs, voices, memories, and conversations eventually form a single landscape.

Following Sammy Stein’s drawings for Depuis les cimes, Antoine Bellanger picks up his pencils and brushes himself for this release. Conceived as a card game, the visual world of La flûte unfolds around the cassette in a double case. Printed using risograph printing at Fun·Print·Lab in Tours, a set of 16 cards accompanies the listening experience: illustrations, song lyrics, details about the guests, notes, and handwritten messages, waiting to be discovered, read, and shuffled. Each copy is lovingly assembled by the team at Un je-ne-sais-quoi, continuing their tradition of creating original sound and graphic objects.