Pizza Soleil by Sauges, released 08 May 2026
- Golden Hour
- Ritournelle
- Pétrichor
- Sortie de l'oeuf
- Velu
- Clavecin Ibérique
- Pizza Soleil
- Miami Beach
- Mouvements Perpétuels
- Noisy Spring
- Éclat de douceur
- 14 Juillet
- Crépuscule
- Bonne nouvelle
- Berceuse
Pizza Soleil begins as a reversal, a dawn rising from the West, a morning promising a radiant past. Born out of a creative residency within the Morse project in Bergerac, the second album by the duo Sauges - composed of Sig Valax and Jules Wysocki - paints horizons that elude us. Anatolian accents, noisy outbursts, and panoramas that are at once caustic and melancholic, coalesce and intertwine throughout a sweeping listening experience, like a wandering dream by William Morris or William Blake sailing up the Thames river.
Sauges’ performance combines sharp attacks of striking textures with the mechanics of reverberating flows. The cimbalom notes rattle off like tiny pods falling onto a cotton veil. The hammered strings draw on the rich tones of the Persephone, at times serving as its skeletal framework, at others chopping away at its breath. The lush, dense, and stinging sound of Velu has all the space it needs to dissolve into the wandering impressionism of Clavecin Ibérique.
Amid the duo’s stream of improvisations, the listener can discern, beyond the musicians’ dialogue, a powerful acoustic landscape. Each contributes their own momentum, capturing a snapshot and then transforming it into movement. In Miami Beach, Wysocki’s muted playing attempts to contain the blasts catapulted by Valax, and yet a rhythm slips in, a new sens of time overlaps. And then, when comes the moment to say goodbye, Berceuse steps in like a distant cousin of a prepared piano from Aphex Twin’s drukqs.
Sig Valax and Jules Wysocki are two musicians based in the Paris region. They share a highly plastic understanding to sound. Sig Valax tackles her work with modular synthesis through the lens of the acoustic interplay of textures: a poetic and dynamic practice that leaves field open for sensory overflow. Jules Wysocki, for his part, takes a narrative and iridescent approach to the cimbalom, enhancing the instrument’s timbral range through amplification and layered effects.
