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Club Hikari Records / HIKARI 048 / 2026

Echoes of the Riviera

Echoes of the Riviera is a journey through places, languages, and fleeting encounters - a story carried along Mediterranean shores, where train platforms, quiet cafés, warm ocean air, and unfamiliar voices become part of the same memory. A cinematic melodic deep house album with organic grooves, coastal atmospheres, and intimate multilingual vocal dialogues.

The Story

In the artist's words

Echoes of the Riviera is a journey through places, languages, and fleeting encounters - a story carried along Mediterranean shores, where train platforms, quiet cafés, warm ocean air, and unfamiliar voices become part of the same memory. A cinematic melodic deep house album with organic grooves, coastal atmospheres, and intimate multilingual vocal dialogues.

The story begins in Paris, just before sunrise. The city slowly wakes as French and English voices move between closeness and hesitation. Then the journey turns south.

Stations disappear behind you. The air becomes warmer. Afternoons stretch into golden swims, sunsets become nights of music and dancing, and conversations drift between French, Italian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic.

As the night deepens, the music becomes quieter. Empty streets, open windows, warm rain, distant waves, and whispered conversations replace the dancefloor. Some voices remain close. Others return only as echoes - memories carried across the water.

Eventually, first light appears over the sea. Piano and Rhodes drift into the morning air, guitars soften, and the journey slowly finds its way back to where it began - not a place, but a feeling.

From warm Rhodes and muted electric guitar to organic percussion, deep melodic house grooves, French house rhythms, and cinematic coastal atmospheres, Echoes of the Riviera moves like a collection of memories connected by the water.

A fusion of languages. A journey between shores. Encounters that become memories. Memories that become echoes.

Listen, stay awhile.

Love

Guillaume

Tracklist

melodic deep house — Languages: French · English · Arabic · Japanese · Spanish · Italian

The Visual World

Mediterranean light

Sun setting behind an island silhouette over a calm sea
The sun going down off the island
Linen curtain drifting on a sea-facing balcony
Curtains, salt air, late afternoon
Warm harbour lights reflected on dark water at night
The harbour after dinner

Credits

Music
Guillaume
Production
Club Hikari Records
Mixing
Guillaume
Mastering
Hikari Mastering
Artwork
Club Hikari Studio
Photography
Club Hikari Studio
Creative Direction
Guillaume
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