Mount Eerie + Wyrd Visions + thisquietarmy

Mount Eerie : Phil Elvrum est poète et écrivain, Phil Elvrum est peintre et dessinateur, Phil Elvrum est compositeur. Cet homme taciturne et sombre est peut-être celui qui propose aujourd’hui les disques les plus lo-fi. Il enregistre sur un 16 pistes à cassette, voir un 8 pistes, dans une cabane ou dans sa chambre. Mais quand ses disques arrivent jusqu’aux oreilles, avec ce son si naturel, on l’imagine parfaitement devant nous, avec sa guitare, la tête basse, en train de chanter ses chansons. Phil est une sorte d’ermite, de solitaire qui ne vit que pour sa musique. Il avait The Microphones -et avait atteint une sorte de point de non-retour : d’une ambition insensée, tentant de s’ériger en mythe et de condenser sur près d’une heure de musique les obsessions esthétiques, philosophiques et mystiques d’Elverum-, il en a eu marre et il a fait Mount Eerie. Mount Eerie, c’est Elverum, désormais élevé au rang de mythe, lui qui s’identifie au Mt. Erie, la vraie montagne, celle qui dominait la maison de son enfance à Anacortes. Plus fasciné que jamais par la nature et l’esprit qui l’habite, Elverum, poète spinoziste et musicien possédé par le génie, révèle des compositions plus arides, toujours introspectives et étrangement essentielles. Elverum est clairement hors du temps, et sa quête artistique et philosophique ne trouve de résonance que chez quelques rares artistes.

Wyrd Visions est un des projets de l'artiste multidisciplinaire Colin Bergh, basé à Toronto. Il est également un membre cofondateur de Outfit Awesome qui fût de très courte durée. Sa musique solo vole et hante ,une aventure à travers la pop psychédélique noire et errante.

thisquietarmy est le projet expérimental du guitariste montréalais Eric Quach, actif depuis 2005. Gravitant autour de la musique improvisée drone, il amène ses expérimentations sonores plus loin en y ajoutant des éléments de structure et de texture influencés du shoegaze, post-punk, krautrock, black métal et doom métal. Il en résulte des paysages oniriques sombres, mélodiques, expansifs et engageants. Ses performances live sont la plupart du temps présentées comme une bande sonore en temps réel avec des visuels hypnotiques éthérés, qu’il crée lui-même pour chacune de ses performances. thisquietarmy a sorti cinq albums officiels : Resurgence sorti en 2011 sur Denovali Records (Allemagne), Vessels sorti en 2011 sur Aurora Borealis (Royaume-Uni), Aftermath sorti en 2010 sur Basses Fréquences (France), Blackhaunter sorti en 2008 sur Elevation (Etats-Unis) & Unconquered sorti en 2008 sur Foreshadow (Pologne). www.pwelverumandsun.com www.myspace.com/mounteerieorthemicrophones_ wyrdvisions.com/ www.thisquietarmy.com/tqa/ __________________________________________________

Phil Elverum is Mount Eerie. The 33 year-old multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name the Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie (and added an “e” to his last name, Elvrum) after returning from a trip to Norway, where he lived alone in a remote cabin for a winter. “Mount Eerie” specifically refers to the mountain on Fidalgo Island, an island an hour and change north of Seattle where you’ll also find Elverum’s lifelong Anacortes, Washington hometown. To date, his most critically acclaimed (and popular) album is the Microphones’ 2001 epic The Glow Pt. 2. The first official Mount Eerie album — following the Microphones’ final 2003 full-length, also called Mount Eerie — is 2005’s No Flashlight. It was followed by 2007’s Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7, a 132-page, hardcover book of his photography, packaged with a 10” picture disk. In early 2009, the journals he kept and drawings he scribbled in Norway were released as a 144-page hardcover book called Dawn. It came with 16 color photo cards and a CD of songs he wrote while living there. Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice, which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place (in and out of Washington State), among other related things. In addition to his extravagantly packaged albums, Elverum has released self-published books (which he illustrates or fills with his photographs) via his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. – Brandon Stosuy//////

Wyrd Visions is Colin Bergh, a Toronto-based musician. He co-founded the short-lived experimental outfit Awesome. Solo his music haunts and soars, a journey through dark and meandering psychedelic pop.

thisquietarmy is the experimental guitar-based project of Eric Quach from Montreal, Quebec, Canada – active since 2005. Revolving around improvised drone music, he takes his sonic experimentations further by adding textural and structural elements of post-punk, shoegaze, krautrock, post-rock, black metal and doom metal to them. The results can be described as dark, melodic, expansive and engaging dreamscapes. His live performances are mostly presented as a real-time score to hypnotic ethereal visuals, which he creates himself for each performance. thisquietarmy has released 5 official albums: Resurgence released in 2011 on Denovali Records (Germany), Vessels released in 2011 on Aurora Borealis (UK), Aftermath released in 2010 on Basses Fréquences (France), Blackhaunter released in 2008 on Elevation (USA) & Unconquered released in 2008 on Foreshadow (Poland). Other releases (collaborative/split albums & EPs) have appeared on labels such as: Alien8 Recordings (Canada), Killer Pimp (USA), three:four (Switzerland), Lunasylum (Belgium), Orange Milk (USA), as well as his own imprint TQA Records (Canada). www.pwelverumandsun.com www.myspace.com/mounteerieorthemicrophones_ wyrdvisions.com/