Belgian shamanic drone collective Fleur de Feu releases second full-length album »Weep« today via P.O.G.O. Records / Off Records!

Brussels, Belgium based shamanic drone collective Fleur de Feu stream their second full-length album, »Weep«, which was just released this Friday, February 28th, 2025 via P.O.G.O. Records / Off Records.

Watch Fleur de Feu’s new music video for »My Hand« below!

Tracklist:
1. How Shall I Begin My Song?
2. In The Great Night
3. Weep
4. My Hand
5. Mother
6. White Feathers

Courtesy of Grand Sounds PR:

Fleur de Feu offers an intense, spiritual journey of epic proportions that spans a wide breadth of psychoscopic sounds. An array of traditional instrumentation conveys meditative explorations of the divine, while remaining grounded in its core message – the cyclical nature of life. In its presentation of expansive soundscapes cut with soaring, celestial vocals, it’s an album of not just personal introspection, but universal.

The music of Fleur de Feu is a soothing, esoteric mix of guitar loops and primal rhythms layered with soft and spoken vocals, accompanied by the spacious guitars of Teuk Henri, the melancholic cello melodies by Matthieu Safatly, synths by Raphaël Rastelli, and James De Backer’s haunting lapsteel guitar. The percussion created by multi-instrumentalist Déhà brings the audience into a dream-like state which enables them to leave linear time in favour of “the sacred, non-linear time”.

Fleur de Feu was conceived of, and curated by Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock, whose British grandfather was a member of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Dominique is the founding member of the Belgium based post-punk band, Baby Fire. The collective’s debut album was released in 2022 via One Little Independent avant-garde subsidiary Caliban Sounds, recently launched by punk pioneer Penny Rimbaud of Crass.

Weep, Fleur de Feu’s second album, was chiefly inspired by writings by Owl woman, a Cheyenne medicine woman who lived in the US in the 19th century. The album is a tribute to our ancestors, including a homage to Dominique’s father who passed away in 2023.

A short presentation of the single »In The Great Night«:

»In The Great Night« is the first single from »Weep«, Fleur de Feu’s second album to be released on February 28th, 2025 through P.O.G.O. Records (CD) and Off Records (digital).

The song evokes a shamanic journey undertaken by Owl woman, a Cheyenne medicine woman who lived in the 19th century.

The track features special guest Matthieu Safatly on cello.

For fans of Anna von Hausswolff, Siouxsie, Chelsea Wolfe…

Purchase »Weep« here:
fleurdefeu.bandcamp.com | pogorecords.bandcamp.com

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Déhà (Wolvennest, La Muerte) at Opus Magnum Studio, Brussels, 2023-2024.

Artwork by Nicole Boitos Hayworth.

Line-up:
Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock – Guitar Loops, Voice
Déhà – Production, Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Synth
Teuk Henri – Guitar
Alinovsky – Percussion
Raphaël Rastelli – Guitar, Synth
Matthieu Safatly – Cello on »In The Great Night« and »My Hand«
James De Backer – Lapsteel on »My Hand and »White Feathers«
Jacopo Andreini – Yaylı Tambur on »How Shall I Begin My Song?«

Release party at Magasin 4, Brussels on March 7th, 2025. More info HERE.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well