MONOLYTH

MONOLYTH is a Belgian duo of filmmakers and musicians — Théo Roland and Gaëtan Heymans — blending music and image into a single cinematic language. Somewhere between trip-hop, cinematic alternative and pop, their songs arrive with films rather than videos. Their debut EP HABESHA, out 23 October 2026, tells one love story across six chapters: the encounter, the discovery, the attachment, the disillusionment, the fracture, and acceptance.

MONOLYTH is a Belgian duo formed by Théo Roland (composer, director, arranger) and Gaëtan Heymans (singer, performer, bassist) — two filmmakers who are also musicians, and who write music and image as the same story rather than treating one as advertising for the other.

That is not a claim, it is a track record. Roland’s short film Unscarred (2023), with Heymans on cinematography, set design and post-production, screened at international festivals. The clips for Time to Move On and Twisted Fate were made entirely in-house. When MONOLYTH release a song, the film comes with it.

Their debut EP HABESHA, out on 23 October 2026, is six tracks and one story, told in six chapters: the encounter, the discovery, the attachment, the disillusionment, the fracture, and acceptance. Written, composed and produced in their own studio, it moves between trip-hop, cinematic alternative rock and contemporary pop — Massive Attack and Portishead are audible, and so is a pop instinct the duo makes no apology for.

The EP is preceded by the singles Those Habesha Eyes (23 September) and Blurry Vision (1 October), and by the cinematic clip for Twisted Fate on 13 October.

The covers for this project are paintings by Julie Ghenet, a Belgian painter who has exhibited and sold in Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Ottawa and La Louvière. They were not commissioned as illustrations for the record: they are works from the 1990s, chosen by the duo.

“Théo and I have always created in parallel: him through music and video, me through painting and collage. Today our artistic worlds are converging in a new way, and I am deeply moved to see my paintings resonate with his writing. Knowing that they can become the first gateway to his music is particularly precious to me.”

Julie Ghenet