In the shadow of people as diverse as Françoiz Breut and Lonely Drifter Karen, Marc Melià gets here under the spotlights thanks to a first album that is a complete UFO. Released by Les Disques du Festival Permanent, Gaspar Claus’ and Flavien Berger’s tasty label, Music For Prophet offers—as its name implies—music made with a Prophet '08, a polyphonic analog synthesizer whose sound is rather similar to the famous Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 from the 70s. With this only weapon, his voice filtered through a vocoder and without any beat, the Catalan musician based in Brussels delivers a fascinating partition, a succession of musical landscapes with many references as diverse as the krautrock from Can and Kraftwerk or the film scores from John Carpenter, Vangelis and Goblin… Melià could have easily fallen into making complacent music to grow tomatoes, but no. We let ourselves be carried away by these electronic entanglements, sometimes mind-blowing and always poetic. Rarely has the synthetic been so… human? © MZ/Qobuz