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“The songs are huge pieces of work, forever shifting with moments of ethereal beauty, bitter angst, overwhelming cheer and undying optimism”. It’s hard to beat the UK website Astral Noize when it comes to describing the music of the French three-piece Pelegrin (“pilgrim” in old French). One could try to bring up a few names such as Elder, OM or Pink Floyd, but that would not quite cut it. Though they stand separated by a few hundred kilometers across France, the three friends are united by a confirmed taste for mesmerizing ambiances. For melodies soaked with Middle-Eastern influences. For rock-solid riffs. And for unsettling songs, always on the move. Pelegrin charted this new path with its first album “Al-Mahruqa” (2019), and prolonged it with its successor “Ways of Avicenna” (2023). They have now joined the catalogue of California’s own Ripple Music (along with Yawning Man, The Obsessed, Hermano, 1000Mods…), which will also release Pelegrin’s third album in 2026.