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morceaux_de_machines
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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On this live 2003 recording in Montréal, morceaux_de_machines are joined by multidisciplinary artist Dominic Gagnon. This noisy audio performance was the soundtrack to a live video montage by Gagnon.
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Saturday, November 20, 2004
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Beware, electronic music fundamentalists: morceaux_de_machines are back! Yeppers, like that, with no warning… And they are quite ready to spoil your party. Hey, what did you expect? That they would…
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Saturday, August 10, 2002
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Five free tracks to supplement the Liberum arbitrium full-length.
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Saturday, August 10, 2002
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So here’s the latest happenstances of our favourite miscreants of improvised music. If you thought “speed jazz” & “death ambient” musics were never really what they claim, if you think…
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Wednesday, May 2, 2001
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Amazingly powerful debut maxi-EP from improv mavericks morceaux_de_machines, which are two members from Napalm Jazz. Heavy noisebleed psychedelia like nowhere else in the world. Includes one track from their juggernaut…
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Biography
The end of the Napalm Jazz radio show on CKIA, in 2000 (which also led to a long hiatus for the same-named group) hasn’t discouraged the members of the group, who continued and multiplied their collaborations, internally and with increasingly more likeminded musicians. But the infernal duo of A_dontigny and Érick d’Orion, this hard pit always being broken up for the sake of sublime sonic pleasure, is still around: it is now known as morceaux_de_machines.
If there is hardly a radio in sight in their toolbox, one can be sure that Dontigny and D’Orion have kept intact the immediate and uncompromising side of their approach from the first years. A highly skilled pair of improvisers, they know how to drive the consenting listener on a sonic adventure which will leave them with their mouth gaping. But if this dynamism and this tension seem almost theatrical to us, it’s a sort of théâtre de la cruauté we’re really talking about, impermeable to the false sentimentality of harmony, ferociously deconstructive of deifying systems such as Bach’s.
Is it just noise? No, there is much more than just noise in these exuberant, life-affirming soundtracks. Just as there is more to the loudness of their composition than a superficial affront to musics which are too easy to like, or too modest. If our machinist acrobats make such a ruckus, it’s because they are acutely conscious of the risk their acrobatics entail. That said and done, we are left with a music that is lively, highly personal and full of depth.
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