Russian ex-pats Vengeance des Fleurs launched last year in Tbilisi via a Telegram chat with a vision of fusing flutes and synths in the spirit of traffic cone-era Kraftwerk. Following a successful rehearsal, synthesist Vladimir L. and flautist Anastasia Mikhaleva reconvened at a studio in the Georgian port city of Batumi and improvised a series of arrangements.

Titled in French as tribute to Jean Marie Pelt’s formative pop-science program (and electronic music gateway drug) L’Aventure des Plantes, the duo’s self-titled debut weaves serpentine synths, high winds, and altered states across four freeform analog tapestries in the lineage of early Tangerine Dream and Emerald Web. “We wanted to make music that sounded like an early electronic roots record. Music seeking the peace and resolution we lacked when recording. This is an escapist album.”