• The electronic music artist Molécule spent five days on the Tévennec lighthouse (Finistère) to record a concept album there.

  • Abandoned for more than a hundred years, the flagship house had come back to life five years ago when an enthusiast had spent sixty days alone on the rock.

  • The two men were able to share the strange sounds emitted by the sea, the wind and undoubtedly by the fault located under the rocks.

Many would have dreamed of having the same experience.

Five days on a Breton island in the middle of a late spring storm where the swell crashes on the rocks.

The wind whistling in your ears and the salt spray that slaps your face.

Then suddenly, the lighthouse door closes and calm returns.

Romain Delahaye is one of the very few privileged people who were able to spend a night on the Tévennec lighthouse.

Located off the southern tip of Finistère, this pebble is a real anomaly in the landscape of French lighthouses since it was built like a house and not like the towers of Ar-Men or the Pierres Noires which dominate the ocean.

For 35 years, the house has seen guardians after guardians and many go mad, haunted by the mysterious noises that echoed on the rock.

It is precisely these sounds that Romain Delahaye came to look for to design his album

Tévennec

 released on February 18 in a limited edition of 500 vinyls.

The one who calls himself Molécule when he goes on stage is a well-known DJ on the French scene.

After starting out with dub and reggae sounds, the electronic music artist got caught up in the sounds of the sea. He first recorded the album

60° 43' Nord

 aboard a fishing trawler based in Saint-Malo before migrating to Greenland for a polar stay and then probing the mythical waves of Nazaré, in Portugal.

Last year, he ventured off the coast of Brittany, which he knows very well.

"I like to discover nature in its element, to immerse myself", explains the artist.

In Tévennec, it will have been served.

Helicituated in May in the middle of hollows of five to six meters, Molécule spent five days in the lighthouse in the company of Marc Pointud.

This heritage enthusiast was the first to sleep in Tévennec since the automation of the lighthouse in 1910. He stayed there for two months alone.

“It's an amazing place.

It's hard to get there and back.

But once you're there, it's paradise on the sea, ”he explained after his stay in 2016.

From the 16th, the naval army of the Ocean was dispersed.

At 6:00 p.m., the vessel SEDUCTIVE is landed on Tévennec and ends up crashing in the night.

300 drowned out of the 600 sailors and 610 soldiers on board, the survivors owe their salvation to the bravery of the Sénans who came to their rescue.

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For his residence at sea, Romain Delahaye had brought his sleeping bag, his toothbrush but also a number of musical instruments that they love.

Plugged in all night, the old modular synthesizers captured the sounds of the sea and the wind but also the oscillations of the magnetic fields.

So, cursed or not cursed?

“I don't believe in spirits or ghosts.

But I like to be respectful of places.

I felt Tévennec as something sacred.

Kind of like going into a church.

It made me think of a place of passage between the world of the dead and that of the living,” explains Molécule.

During the thirty-five years it was controlled by men, the Tévennec lighthouse saw 23 keepers pass.

Many of them lost their minds when they heard strange noises which they attributed to the Ankou, symbol of death in Brittany.

Research had established that it was probably the sound of water rushing into a fault located under the rocks that had created this myth.

“It's a strange place.

We are motionless but we always have the impression that it is constantly moving, like a bow that would break the sea, ”says the artist.

From this residency came a very conceptual album.

On both sides of the vinyl, only two tracks are truly structured.

The rest is more like an experimental concept mixing wind, swell and mystical vibrations.

Will this vinyl shed light on the degraded state of this lighthouse?

It would not be a luxury as the house perched 17 meters above the sea has suffered.

“The woodwork, the walls, the paintings and especially the roof… Everything is very degraded.

It oozes, it is decrepit, ”regrets Romain Delahaye.

The artist and his host had to sleep in tents set up upstairs, among thousands of woodlice.

The postcard takes a hit.

Property of Lighthouses and Beacons, Tévennec should be renovated as promised by the State.

The question is when.

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Soon a film on the Vendée Globe by Thomas Ruyant

A great lover of navigation, Molécule met Dunkirk skipper Thomas Ruyant, whom

20 Minutes

has been following for several years.

He even received authorization to install 13 cameras on board the

LinkedOut

foiler during the last Vendée Globe.

A 75-minute film retracing this incredible solo world tour should be released in cinemas by the end of the year.

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