With “Le Gisant,” released on October 3, 2025, Paris-based collective Le Comité Restreint delivers a haunting prelude to their forthcoming double album Révolution. The single, placed as the fourth track on the project, captures the fragile moment when stillness gives way to consciousness — a theme that defines the group’s poetic and sensory identity.
Opening with a pulse that feels both organic and mechanical, “Le Gisant” mirrors the slow reanimation of the human spirit. Electric percussion and sweeping synths intertwine like breath returning to a lifeless body, while the vocals drift between spoken reflection and melodic release. The sound design is immersive — a collision of dream and machinery — embodying the painful beauty of awakening from inertia. “Le Gisant” explores the transition from coma to awareness, transforming a moment of existential paralysis into a meditation on rebirth. The words feel sculpted rather than sung, merging with the rhythmic architecture beneath them. Each layer — from the deep electronic textures to the shimmering melodic ascents — builds toward transcendence, expressing the tension between light and shadow, death and movement, silence and revelation.
As part of Révolution, the single promises a continuation of Le Comité Restreint’s mission: to use sound, poetry, and image as instruments of transformation. Founded by Sabine Bouyala and Léo Pouzoulet and joined by Geneviève Gleize, Max Imbert, and Jérémy Mahieu, the collective crafts work that is at once intellectual and deeply emotional. “Le Gisant” isn’t merely a song — it’s a threshold, a call to rise from passivity and embrace the unsettling force of change. At its core, this track reaffirms Le Comité Restreint’s belief that art can awaken what lies dormant — not through noise, but through movement, emotion, and truth.
