The Dragonfly Chronicles

Lancée lors du solstice d'été, The Dragonfly Chronicles est une méditation sur le thème de la métamorphose. L'oeuvre suit l'itinéraire d'un voyage, du passé au présent, dans lequel la libellule, gardienne de l’éphémère et fille du vent, symbolise le changement... le passage de l’ombre à la lumière... la renaissance...

2026 | Vidéoclip
Réalisateur Philippe Léonard

  • Les paroles sont présentées ici dans leur version d’origine.

    You lie beyond the horizon
    On an island of light
    I bow to your beauty
    And your flashing grey eyes
    Even though you are invisible
    Starlight reflects on your shield
    As you move so graciously
    In the night sky
    Then, in my dreams
    In full armor, you appear
    Smile and say have no fear
    The battle was won
    Before it began

    I rode the storm
    One hand tied behind my back
    Only to find solace
    In the mud of the track
    It all went down so well
    That May Day
    When the sky fell
    I was there but I shan’t tell

    My lips are bleeding
    I’m lost for words
    My wings are burning
    Just like the Phoenix bird

    On the lake
    I hear echoes
    Endless waves
    Of skipping stones
    And those crystal
    Pledges of silence
    They lay broken
    Like windowpanes
    From a distance
    Rings a bell
    A dog barks, somebody yells
    I was there but I shan’t tell

    My lips are bleeding
    I’m lost for words
    My wings are burning
    Just like the Phoenix bird

    In the abbey
    I wake up
    To a stormy dawn sublime
    A revelation
    Cuts like a diamond
    Through space and time
    Neither heaven, nor hell
    From a sleepwalker’s dream
    Duly expelled
    I was there but I shan’t tell

    My lips are bleeding
    I’m lost for words
    My wings are burning
    Just like the Phoenix bird

    In the end
    All that was left
    From the spoils of the theft
    Was a rusted old mouth harp
    And the pain that felt so sharp
    Cast out forever
    Free of all spells
    I found out where   
    The dragonfly dwells
    I was there but I shan’t tell

    My lips are bleeding
    I’m lost for words
    My wings are burning
    Just like the Phoenix bird

Réalisé par Philippe Léonard
Mouvement/Performance par Myriam Arseneault Campbell
Étalonnage par Jérémie Carvalho

Sentinel

Sentinel aborde les thèmes de la mort et de l’immortalité. Elle explore le deuil et le leg d’une mission, sans que cette dernière soit définie en soi, cédant place à l’interprétation. La première de Sentinel a eu lieu un 21 juin, jour du solstice d’été.

2022 | Vidéoclip
Réalisateur Philippe Léonard

  • Les paroles sont présentées ici dans leur version d’origine.

    Stand vigil
    Stand vigil
    If you will
    The old sentinel
    Is fading away 

    How can he still defend
    What we have all forgotten
    A safeguard so brave
    Weapon at the ready
    In the drifting snow 

    How do you say goodbye
    To a man
    Who’s already dancing in the sky 

    Stand vigil
    Stand vigil
    If you will
    The old sentinel
    Is fading away 

    Gave the word
    To his son, the wanderer
    Relieve me of duty
    Take my place and stay the course…

    Mazes and routes
    Closed spaces like memories from the body
    Bone china prisons where tea used to be served
    River in which Narcissus gazed at himself
    Battlefields of our indifferences
    Gypsy roads
    Eternal faces and places
    Broken up and bitten landscapes
    Walls of silences
    Sands that slip through our fingers
    Secret gardens where one goes to cry
    Tender or cruel masquerades
    Strange parodies and jesters’ laughter
    Magic lamps and hurricane lanterns
    Trajectories of celestial objects
    Winter solstice where Venus lay down to sleep

    Stand vigil
    Stand vigil
    If you will
    The old sentinel
    Is fading away
    He’s been called upon by the magic lady
    Who paints the heavens in the northern sky

    © Robert Langlois

Leave No Trace

Parue lors d’un solstice d’hiver, la chanson Leave No Trace  évoque l’éternel à travers une exploration de l’impermanence, de l’importance de l’instant présent et de l’abandon de l’égo.

2018 | Vidéoclip
Réalisateur Philippe Léonard

  • Les paroles sont présentées ici dans leur version d’origine.

    Fly, Raven, fly
    A dark moon turns a blind eye
    A drifting cloud tells a white lie
    As you, Raven, write the Book of Sky

    Leave no trace but a song
    Nobody is here for long
    Leave no trace but a song 

    Pine trees in the soft wind
    Needles gently swaying
    Through the night will be dancing
    As they write the Book of Mountain

    Leave no trace but a song
    Nobody is here for long
    Leave no trace but a song

    Gazing at my reflection
    In the flowing water
    Looking at the worst enemy
    I will ever have to face

    Flow and flow, running water
    Gone forever
    Still the gentle rain
    Will write the Book of River 

    Leave no trace but a song
    Nobody is here for long
    Leave no trace but a song

    © Robert Langlois