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Since Le Cirque de Consolation, her second album released in 2021, a seismic shift has occurred in Léonie Pernet’s life. The musician travelled to Niger to meet her father's family — previously unknown to her. Upon  returning from the trip, Léonie came across a line by René Char: “I took my head as one takes a  lump of salt and literally pulverised it.” The shock of this revelation stayed with her and led her to  Poème Pulvérisé, a 1945 collection by the French poet and resistance fighter. It opens with a  question that would soon resonate deeply: “How can one live without the unknown ahead?” 

Opting for the plural, Léonie titled her third album Poèmes Pulvérisés, to be released in June  2025 via Crybaby and InFiné. A crossroads of continents, the album links the limestone skies of her childhood in the Marne  (France) to the deserts of Niger. From classical and electronic music to French pop, African and  Arabic rhythms and experimental soundscapes, Léonie Pernet pulverises form, language, and  composition. What are we, if not scattered fragments? June 2025 will unveil the full collection — eleven pulverised poems, scattered across as many tracks.

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