As the Full Super Blue Moon was setting on August 31, so was premiering "Boscoyo Fleaux" feat. Dickie Landry & the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the first music video from Louis Michot's debut solo LP, 'Rêve du Troubadour'.

"Boscoyo Fleaux" from Louis Michot's debut solo album 'Rêve du Troubadour'.

Directed by Syd Horn & Olivia Perillo

Produced by Louis Michot & Honest Art

Cinematography & Color by Olivia Perillo Additional Camera by Syd Horn

Edit & Animation by Joseph Howard

Ivory Billed Woodpecker drawing by Pippin Frisbie-calder

Louis Michot- vocals, Syndrum, 808 kick and snare, steel guitar

Dickie Landry- saxophone

Ivory Billed Woodpecker recorded by Arthur A. Allen, 1935, Singer Tract, Louisiana

Engineered by Louis Michot.

Additional Engineering by Kirkland Middleton

Mastered by Bob Weston, Chicago Mastering Services

In Louis' words: "‘Boscoyo Fleaux’ is a swamp-rap song I composed on my birthday in 2022, as I took a solo trek to get lost in the wilderness. As I would walk, following the palmetto filled contour lines to stay above the mud, I would sit on a dry log to continue writing the lyrics as they came to the rhythm of my hike. One thought came to mind, as I was writing in the endangered dialects of Cajun and Creole French; that the Louisiana French language could be likened to the elusive bird who has been dodging extinction for the last hundred years: the Ivory Billed Woodpecker. As I searched thru the hidden swamp for myself, and the solace of nature, I was reminded of my father, Tommy Michot, who has been searching for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker for almost 5 decades now. Thought to be extinct since the 1940s because of loss of habitat due to deforestation of the old-growth forests cut for lumber, there are those, such as my father, who believe the majestic woodpecker is still alive and breeding, hiding from humanity to keep its species alive. My father and his colleagues have recently published recordings of the call of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, recorded in an undisclosed location in Louisiana over the last few years. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been given musical references for centuries now, with John James Audubon describing the call of the Ivory billed Woodpecker in 1831 as "resembling the high false note of a clarinet" and in 1932 ornithologist Frank Chapman used the analogy of "a nasal yap sound of a tin trumpet". I asked avant-garde saxophonist Dickie Landry, who lives only a few miles down Bayou Teche in Cecilia, if he would lend his freestyle interpretation in his signature "quadrophonic" delay style to this Louisiana French nature-rap track, to which he agreed, driving up and perfectly melding his sound onto the rhythms. I then sampled the 1935 recording of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker by Arthur Allen, and laid it in the track, an appropriate accompaniment to Dickie's performance."