1:46:43 – The Ventoux Trilogy transforms the legendary Mont Ventoux cycling ascent into music, using real-time ride data.

These contemplative clips take you on an immersive journey up the mountain with five leading tracks, one, each representing a stage of the climb from the start to the top.

You can dive deeper into the climb in Join the journey.

Once the road is the opening journey, setting the stage for the album’s first movement and capturing a gradual shift from serenity to tension

In the company of oaks  We’ve just passed the St Estèphe hairpin, where a sudden bend leads into a steep climb beneath towering oaks, their canopy casting dappled shade over the road. The air is thick with pine and earth, and the silence is broken only by breath, chain, and rustling leaves.

The vanity of human wishes This stretch of the climb is among the most grueling—a relentless, grinding test of endurance where body and mind are pushed to their limits. There are no sweeping vistas to offer distraction, no rolling landscapes to soften the effort—only the unyielding road ahead, flanked by an impenetrable wall of trees. Every pedal stroke is a battle against gravity. The mind, once sharp with focus, begins to waver, questioning the very purpose of the ascent. Why am I here?

Alone for nine minutes The shade is fading as the tree line nears, the once-protective canopy now thinning.
This is a place of transition, a no-man’s land suspended between ascent and summit, between effort and exhaustion. Neither near the top nor the bottom, the climb stretches on in a state of limbo, where time seems to slow and the road ahead blurs into something both distant and immediate.

An Everlasting Universe of Things is the closing track of the album, and it covers the last few hundred meters of the climb.

It was here, under the searing July sun of 1967, that Tom Simpson—a British cycling great tipped to win the Tour de France—met his tragic fate. In front of a world watching in horror, he succumbed to exhaustion, heat, and the brutal demands of the climb. 

When I pause at his roadside memorial, I can almost sense his shadow rising with each passing rider, silently accompanying us through the final kilometre he never completed. 

It’s an extraordinary moment, expanding into forever with the memory of a lost champion still present. 

Films from previous releases

Mountains and Plains

The Blackbird Tapes