La Traversée (The Crossing) is Matthias Puech's second album for Hallow Ground and follows up on 2023's Mt. Hadamard National Park. Profoundly inspired by re-reading The Odyssey, the French composer, instrument designer, and scholar used a Eurorack modular synthesizer to create four pieces that are by far the most intuitive and emotionally charged in his ever- expanding catalogue. Puech's masterful command of sound comes to the forefront with even more urgency on this record. A wandering meditation on the human condition, La Traversée is an album that is constantly in motion -- complex electronic music at its most gripping and evocative.