A Collaboration Between Franck Vigroux & Loïc Varanguien de Villepin
Aesthetical presents NACHT, a new collaborative project uniting Franck Vigroux, the renowned French composer, producer and sound artist, with Loïc Varanguien de Villepin, poet and vocalist known for his intense spoken-word performances and existential lyricism.
Emerging as a logical progression of Vigroux’s sonic language, NACHT expands upon the stark electronic minimalism and visceral textural depth familiar from his earlier releases on Aesthetical. Yet where Vigroux’s previous works often inhabited the realm of pure sound and abstraction, NACHT introduces a distinctly human and tragic dimension through Varanguien’s vocal laments, fractured monologues, whispers and declamations that move between invocation and despair.
This union gives rise to a sound that is both ritualistic and cinematic, merging the weight of Vigroux’s electronic architecture with the vulnerable gravity of the human voice. The result is an immersive sonic world where industrial drones, distorted harmonics and decaying pulses serve as vessels for poetic catharsis, a nocturnal descent into memory, loss, and transformation.
“NACHT is the sound of language dissolving into resonance, the echo of meaning after words have disappeared,” says Vigroux.
Recorded between 2023 and 2025 in France, the album unfolds as a sequence of sonic tableaux, at once intimate and monumental. Each piece navigates the tension between structure and collapse, between technological precision and emotional volatility. The voice of Varanguien, at times nearly submerged beneath waves of distortion, emerges as a ghostly presence, the last trace of consciousness within Vigroux’s vast, crumbling soundscapes.
Rooted in contemporary electroacoustic practice yet driven by a deeply physical sense of rhythm and tension, NACHT stands as both a continuation and a rupture within Vigroux’s oeuvre, a point where music, poetry, and noise converge into something starkly new.
CD Edition of 200 copies in 4 panel Digipak. 2 Tracks. Running Time 41:09
Release Date December 19 2025
Digital Available Via Bandcamp
A Collaboration Between Franck Vigroux & Loïc Varanguien de Villepin
Aesthetical presents NACHT, a new collaborative project uniting Franck Vigroux, the renowned French composer, producer and sound artist, with Loïc Varanguien de Villepin, poet and vocalist known for his intense spoken-word performances and existential lyricism.
Emerging as a logical progression of Vigroux’s sonic language, NACHT expands upon the stark electronic minimalism and visceral textural depth familiar from his earlier releases on Aesthetical. Yet where Vigroux’s previous works often inhabited the realm of pure sound and abstraction, NACHT introduces a distinctly human and tragic dimension through Varanguien’s vocal laments, fractured monologues, whispers and declamations that move between invocation and despair.
This union gives rise to a sound that is both ritualistic and cinematic, merging the weight of Vigroux’s electronic architecture with the vulnerable gravity of the human voice. The result is an immersive sonic world where industrial drones, distorted harmonics and decaying pulses serve as vessels for poetic catharsis, a nocturnal descent into memory, loss, and transformation.
“NACHT is the sound of language dissolving into resonance, the echo of meaning after words have disappeared,” says Vigroux.
Recorded between 2023 and 2025 in France, the album unfolds as a sequence of sonic tableaux, at once intimate and monumental. Each piece navigates the tension between structure and collapse, between technological precision and emotional volatility. The voice of Varanguien, at times nearly submerged beneath waves of distortion, emerges as a ghostly presence, the last trace of consciousness within Vigroux’s vast, crumbling soundscapes.
Rooted in contemporary electroacoustic practice yet driven by a deeply physical sense of rhythm and tension, NACHT stands as both a continuation and a rupture within Vigroux’s oeuvre, a point where music, poetry, and noise converge into something starkly new.
CD Edition of 200 copies in 4 panel Digipak. 2 Tracks. Running Time 41:09
Release Date December 19 2025
Digital Available Via Bandcamp
