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"The result of the collaboration between Thisquietarmy and Voivod's drummer, "Machine Consciousness, Phase III" offers a strange music with a hypnotic coldness on the borders of drone and jazz."
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As its name suggests, Thisquitearmy x Away brings together Canadian guitarist Eric Quach, a prolific explorer of drone music, and Voivod's drummer Michel Langevin, himself an artist who loves great freedom. If at first glance there is nothing in common between the hypnotic ambient that the former weaves and the nevertheless protean and evolving thrash to which the latter is attached, the meeting between the two musicians seems nevertheless natural as demonstrated by the fruit of their frolics obviously placed under the sign of experimentation, closer to a sound happening than to a conventional creation.
In 2019, they captured a series of sessions that resulted in the albums "The Singularity Phase I and II". From these same recording sessions, Quach now draws 'Machine Consciousness, Phase III', to which he has grafted the bass lines of Charles Bussières and the trombone of Reüel Ordoñez who accompany him live with Thisquietarmy. The result is a magma in the continuity of the first two offerings but even more organic. And above all, more bewitching.
In spite of its spontaneous nature which imposes its telluric and spatial jam groove, the menu avoids drowning in a nebulous spirit, keeping on the contrary a rigorous grip even if these long instrumental tracks are built in an almost immaterial budding substratum. What he owes a lot to Michel Langevin's typing, which instills an energy that is alternately jazzy ('Epsilon 0000 1100') or more furious and underlined by a greedy bass ('Zeta 00001110' and its orgasmic rise in power). The ambient effluences of the guitarist (also in charge of machines and synthesizers) come to nimble this silky and biting rhythmic of a cold and almost disembodied mist.
In spite of its rather accessible appearance (everything is relative), this magmatic block releases icy atmospheres of concrete and futuristic architectures, sometimes worrying ('Zeta 0000 1101'), often tinged with strangeness ('Zeta 0000 1111'). Just like its visuals and its tracks with enigmatic titles. Pugnacious and trippy, "Machine Consciousness installs the listene in an unreal atmosphere draped by Eric Quach's usual cold melancholy. The fact remains that detailing this album is ultimately very difficult, as words struggle to grasp the content of an adventurous material that escapes the usual descriptions. It is better to try the experience of a discovery whose bewitching beauty borders on a form of hypnotic trance.
Continuing the alliance between Thisquietarmy's drone and Michel "Away" Langevin's jazzy playing, "Machine Consciousness, Phase III" stands out as the best album of the duo and gives hope that the two protagonists won't stop there and continue to collaborate under the banner of a music as dreamy as it is pulsative. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Epsilon 0000 1011 - 09:21
02. Epsilon 0000 1101 - 14:09
03. Zeta 0000 1101 - 05:06
 04. Zeta 0000 1100 - 10:05
05. Zeta 0000 1111 - 08:10
06. Eta 0001 0000 - 05:10
LINEUP:
Eric Quach: Guitares / Claviers
Michel "Away" Langevin: Batterie
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