With his delicate yet powerful piano-driven alt-pop, Mathis Akengin creates a world where silence carries as much weight as the notes themselves. At times, you can almost hear a pin drop; the next moment, everything shifts, hitting you like an elephant in the chest.
Spotted at the Printemps de Bourges Inouïs and featured at Eurockéennes and Fusion Festival, he has carved out a singular path of his own, far from the conventional route. Today, he unveils Passage des Fleurs, an intimate debut album conceived as a letter to his Turkish grandfather, where fragility and strength meet.