Parisian musician, composer and producer Saycet today releases the full soundtrack for ‘La Révolution’. Aired globally last month, ‘La Révolution’ is Netflix France’s latest historical drama series set to the backdrop of a fictionally revised French Revolution – 1787. Composed by Saycet and also featuring four new reworks including of Haendel’s ‘Sarabande’, the official soundtrack is now available to stream and purchase.

‘La Révolution’ is Netflix France's most ambitious project to date which follows protagonist and future inventor of the guillotine, Joseph Guillotin, as he investigates the rise of a mysterious virus known as ‘Blue Blood’. With a narrative built around a clash of cultures and epochs, it is in this spirit that Saycet, who was entrusted with scoring the entirety of the series, wrote two different types of compositions. On the one hand, powerful and modern electronic scores with a few winks to the period evoked. On the other, adaptations of classical pieces (Haendel, Bach, Lully and Beethoven). The soundtrack also sees Saycet collaborate for the first time with a classical orchestra: an ensemble of 22 musicians – harpsichord, strings, piano, and choir. The result is a new type of soundtrack, oscillating between futuristic synthetic sounds and the evocative power of classical orchestrations.

Five years after the release of his album ‘Mirage’, Saycet has consistently championed a blend of powerful, melancholic sounds across his discography of experimental electronic productions. Inspired by the art of scoring music to moving imagery, Saycet recently announced his forthcoming album with new single, ‘Mother’. A taster of the full LP which is set for release in 2021, ‘Mother’ presents a progressive sound narration and conjures highly emotive audio storytelling – ‘Mother’ also features on the soundtrack for the Canal + documentary ‘Bastard Lion’, which was produced by Bonne Pioche along with including previously unreleased tracks from co-scorer and revolutionary techno producer and DJ, Laurent Garnier.

At first glance, Saycet's journey may seem peculiar but in reality, it is extremely fluid. A backward evolution away from our current era, which churns out artists non-stop – a path that has made Pierre Lefeuvre, the brain behind his Saycet project for the last 15 years, a key figurehead in the French electronic music landscape.

After release his first album, 2005’s ‘One Day At Home’, Saycet built upon a genre that had fallen into relative disinterest. Deliberately melancholy, errant electronic music made somewhat more accessible by pop melodies and experimental sounds. An outsider by nature, he was nonetheless spotted by influential media outlets, finding an international fanbase that would remain faithful to him through the years.

With time, Saycet’s creative work became more refined and his influences merged into a highly personal approach that succeeded in linking cerebral music with an opening to a wider audience. 2010’s ‘Through The Window’ and 2015’s ‘Mirage’ continued the project’s evolution towards a more timeless sound that shone through its arrangement work and an asserted versatility. Tours of Asia and collaborations (with Juliette Armanet and Yan Wagner among others) helped Saycet grow further (yet still outside of the mainstream’s radar) nonetheless finding his niche on the international music map. His approach to live performances cemented his place as an innovator, always in search of new aesthetic grounds, with stage shows that implemented video projection as a source of lighting rather than as mere visual illustration, creating a truly immersive experience in the process.

Somewhat accidentally, Lefeuvre opened the doors to composing via images – a logical, uncalculated continuation for this production artisan, whose composition work is nourished by visual art and cinematic culture. He created his first score for the 2019 feature ‘Un Vrai Bonhomme’ and started making headways into the circle of pop music composers who collaborate with filmmakers.

This year, Saycet has composed the music for the Canal + documentary ‘Bastard Lion’ along with today’s release of Netflix’s ‘La Révolution. Furthermore, Saycet took residence last month for a one-of-a-kind creative project built around the Château de Versailles’ architectural heritage and instruments - both audio and video content from the project will be released in 2021.

Tracklist:
La révolution - Main Theme
Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Saraband (Saycet Rework)
Joseph
Les Montargis
La forêt
Un pour cent
Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 (Saycet Rework)
L'ile aux vestiges
Zombie
Donatien
A bout portant
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor I. Adagio sostenuto (Saycet Rework)
Albert
Amour
Maréchaussée
Souvenirs
Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs (Saycet Rework)
Elise
La fin d'un monde
Les bas-fonds
La révolte
Credits:

Composed By: Saycet except ‘Sarbande’, ‘Fugue’, ‘Sonata’ and ‘Marche’
Performed By: Saycet (keys, electronic drums, pianos, vocals)
Arranged By: Saycet
Orchestrated by: Ronan Maillard
Mixed By: Rémi Barbot Studio Obsidienne
Produced By: Saycet
Published By: Netflix
Mastered By: Emilie Daelemans
Artwork/ Design: Netflix
Orchestra conducted by Ronan Maillard and recorded at, Rochefort (France) (Engineer: Mathieu Nappez).