——— FAR CASPIAN (US)
FR/
Far Caspian commence en tant que projet personnel du producteur, multi-instrumentiste et ingénieur du son Joel Johnston. Alors qu’il enregistre et mixe des artistes variant du post-rock au hip-hop, l’Irlandais décide d’écrire et de composer ses propres morceaux et trouve sa voie dans une pop indie lo-fi qui insuffle un vent d’espoir. Quelques sorties musicales plus tard, il remplit les salles du Royaume-Uni puis en Europe, rejoint sur scène par quelques amis proches. Sur Spotify, il atteint près de 20 millions d’écoutes avec son single A Dream of You.
Après un passage remarqué au Witloof Bar en 2023, où il revenait avec Arbitrary Task, un morceau indie folk rêveur qui aborde le besoin de donner un sens à son exister et la frustration ressentie face à la routine quotidienne faite d’allers-retours entre la maison et le travail, Far Caspian revient au Botanique. L'occasion de découvrir sur scène son nouveau-né Autofiction, où il aborde les bouleversements liés au diagnostic de la maladie de Crohn dont il est victime.
EN/
On his new album Autofiction, Far Caspian’s Joel Johnston is learning to make peace with the cards he’s been dealt. Following his Crohn’s disease diagnosis in 2021, Johnston felt stuck mourning the loss of his life before, and struggling to cope with not only his new reality, but also an ongoing battle with OCD and anxiety. Autofiction finds the Irish musician discovering the tools he needs to keep moving forward. “I’m now at the point where I don't really let it define me,” he says. “The lyric ‘your mind changed from a fear to a song’ [on ‘Lough’] is my expression of freedom.”
The lyrics across Autofiction—which dive deep into mental health burdens, self-forgiveness, recovery, and gratitude—are Johnston’s most direct and literal to date. “I just wanted to get the message across,” he says. Freeing himself from internal judgments, Johnston wrote songs for Autofiction with a simple motto: “I’m enjoying this right now and therefore it’s good enough.”
Johnston used his studio experience to approach the making of the album with a fresh mindset. With influences ranging from Broken Social Scene to Supercar, the instrumentation feels light, textured, and energetic. He produced, mixed, and played every instrument himself.
——— INFOS
• Tickets on sale 02/05 - 11:00
• Orangerie (Botanique) || Doors 19:30
• Bota'Carte 19€ (
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• Ticket 22€
• Day of Show 25€
(costs included)
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FR:
https://botanique.be/fr/concert/far-caspian-2025
NL:
https://botanique.be/nl/concert/far-caspian-2025
EN:
https://botanique.be/en/concert/far-caspian-2025
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