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(2017) thisquietarmy - Democracy of Dust
Review:
Montreal’s thisquietarmy is the ambient, drone, experimental project of Eric Quach. Throughout his 26 full-length releases (some of which contain collaborations with other artists, this number however, does not include his EP releases), Quach builds sound structures that range from ambient drones, to dreamy shoegaze, to fuzzed out noise, and so on. It’s very hard to pin down a genre for thisquietarmy, because each release is different in one form or another. His two releases this year are drastically different than his previous 24 full-lengths, in a very inspirational way.
Quach starts with an idea and then builds layers upon layers to create sonic structures (songs) the same way an architect starts with a blueprint and does the same with a physical structure.
During his residency at Dissenso Studio in São Paulo, while touring with São Paulo-based Labirinto, Quach and Muriel Curi recorded the Moog Little Phatty and Korg MS2000B synthesizers that Quach had been experimenting on (between February-March 2016). Once he returned home he recorded additional guitar tracks to layer in with the synthesizer recordings, finishing the recording and mixing at TQA.HQ, Montreal/Berlin (between September 2016-January 2017). The album was mastered by Brian Wenckebach at Electric Blue Studios, Brooklyn NY (January-2017).
Tracklist:
01 - Welcome to Mendacity.flac
02 - Post-Truth.flac
03 - Transhumanism.flac
04 - New Home of Mind.flac
05 - The Harbinger.flac
06 - A World Without Power.flac
07 - Nobody's Free Until Everyone's Free.flac
Summary:
Country: Canada
Genre: ambient, post-rock
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 563-896 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |
