A tireless firefly of the Indie scene and a gifted jack-of-all-trades, Pacôme Genty already has a great career behind him. Nearly twenty years ago, he distinguished himself in the duo Rrose Tacet, a condensation of psychedelic-folk arabesques and dream pop. Within Erevan Tusk, one of the most acclaimed pop groups of the 2010s. After the group split, Pacôme experimented solo and returned to the stage with singer Arman Méliès, a musical tutor who became an advisor and outside ear during the recording of Hestia. He also shared a tour with Don Niño, a big brother he met one evening in 2008 when Rrose Tacet opened for NLF3 in Berlin. It was from his lair in Gâtinais, where he settled in 2021 during periods of confinement, that Pacôme simmered this album alone, with inflections that are by turns ecstatic, gentle and sunny. “I asked a visual artist friend to use one of his abstract paintings for the cover. It looks like a vertical sound wave. From there, I dove into Greek Mythology and came across Hestia, the goddess of sacred fire and the hearth. It turns out it overlapped with themes and moods that crossed my life during this period: independence, home, joy, modesty... It is a ‘fictionalized’ transcription of a few years of my life through this feminine divinity. She became the narrator and the main thread of the record. “