Gaspar Claus has shared Colaïdo, the latest single from his new album Cells, out 25th September via InFiné. Every sound on the record starts with his cello, processed and reshaped until the line between acoustic and electronic disappears. Made at a studio he built in Banyuls-sur-Mer with producer Basile3 and mixed by his long-time collaborator David Chalmin, it also brings in Matt Elliott, of The Third Eye Foundation, whose voice carries Claus’s words on Cupidon.
Colaïdo takes its name from a small sailboat once owned by Claus’s father, the flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, who died in August 2024. Moored at Banyuls-sur-Mer, a Mediterranean town a few kilometres from the Spanish border, it was the boat on which Claus learned to sail. The piece rolls across overlapping waves of cello, its slow movements tracing the swell of the sea.
“Colaïdo is the name of a small sailboat my father bought on a whim one day, back when my sister and I were teenagers,” Claus says. “It was on that boat that I learned to sail. The piece is infused with this memory — inevitably tinged with nostalgia.”
Claus and Soler made two albums together for InFiné, a dialogue between cello and flamenco guitar that carried through to sessions for NPR’s Tiny Desk and La Blogothèque. KLOF covered their 2011 debut, Barlande, and the shared the Murailles Music documentary Archer sonore, a portrait of Claus at work.
Cells runs to ten tracks, among them the earlier single Désir des astres and Die Wahl der Vögel, which folds the song of a great tit into its digital weave. Basile3’s production is most audible on Amour constrictor (fugue) and Ecstasy.
Cells (25th September 2026) InFiné
Pre-order album here: https://idol-io.ffm.to/cells