The music of L’Inaccessible was composed on a computer with musical creation software and a bank of sounds. Even though it’s influenced by Russian composers, especially in the use of minor tonalities, every scene in the album has specific references linked to its time period. The electronic sounds underscore the supernatural aspect of some scenes.
L’Inaccessible is the story of the composer Johann Cèdre who, agonizing in a hospital (prologue), remembers a mysterious theme, l’Inaccessible – a masked dancer. He lived several centuries earlier, in the Middle Ages. He asked a fiddler to help him but the man cast a spell on him, sending him to the Renaissance era, the classical age, romantic period and 20th century. In the epilogue, l’Inaccessible comes and delivers his soul.
Francis Berthelot is primarily known as a science-fiction and fantasy writer, and has received numerous awards in that field.
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