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Destroyalldreamers
Destroyalldreamers was a Canadian four-piece instrumental music, instrumental post-rock band from Montreal consisting of guitarists Eric Quach and Mathieu Grisé, drummer Shaun Doré and former bassist Michèle Martin. Their sound has often been described as a mix of classic 1990s shoegazing with Godspeed You! Black Emperor-like aesthetics. They released two full-length studio albums, both of them on Montreal's independent record label Where Are My Records. The quartet is known for their extensive use of Effects unit#Electric guitar, effects pedals and for mixing elements of shoegaze, Wall of Sound#Shoegazing, wall of sound and post-rock, which has had many fans categorize them as post-shoegaze. Although the group has shown interest in recording new material, they have been inactive since 2007 with its members pursuing other projects. History Destroyalldreamers was formed in 2002 by guitarist Eric Quach and drummer Shaun Doré. The name ''Destroyalldreamers'' was taken from a phra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destroyalldreamers
Destroyalldreamers was a Canadian four-piece instrumental music, instrumental post-rock band from Montreal consisting of guitarists Eric Quach and Mathieu Grisé, drummer Shaun Doré and former bassist Michèle Martin. Their sound has often been described as a mix of classic 1990s shoegazing with Godspeed You! Black Emperor-like aesthetics. They released two full-length studio albums, both of them on Montreal's independent record label Where Are My Records. The quartet is known for their extensive use of Effects unit#Electric guitar, effects pedals and for mixing elements of shoegaze, Wall of Sound#Shoegazing, wall of sound and post-rock, which has had many fans categorize them as post-shoegaze. Although the group has shown interest in recording new material, they have been inactive since 2007 with its members pursuing other projects. History Destroyalldreamers was formed in 2002 by guitarist Eric Quach and drummer Shaun Doré. The name ''Destroyalldreamers'' was taken from a phra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live @ Divan Orange 2007-10-21
''Live @ Divan Orange 2007-10-21'' is a live album by the Montreal-based instrumental shoegaze band Destroyalldreamers which was released as a free internet download in 2009. It was recorded on October 21, 2007, at Divan Orange, a popular Montreal independent music venue. The performance was in support of their previous album '' Wish I Was All Flames'', which was released in the same week. Retrieved 2010-04-07 Track listing The album includes material from their most recent LP, as mentioned earlier, as well as from their first album '' À Coeur Léger Sommeil Sanglant''.Personnel ;De ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
À Coeur Léger Sommeil Sanglant
''À Coeur Léger Sommeil Sanglant'' ic(loosely translated from French as "To light heart, bloody slumber") is the official debut studio album by Montreal-based instrumental shoegaze band Destroyalldreamers, released in November 2004 on Where Are My records. The album has received generally favourable reviews and was often put among the favourites of independent magazine and webzine critics of 2004. Retrieved 2010-04-06 The album was recorded by Patrick Lacharité in his apartment, in Montreal, over the course of four months in 2003 and 2004. Track listing Personnel ;Destroyalldreamers * Eric Quach – gui ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wish I Was All Flames
''Wish I Was All Flames'' is the second studio full-length album by the Montreal-based instrumental shoegaze band Destroyalldreamers, released on October 23, 2007, on Where Are My records. In December 2007, American webzine ''Somewhere Cold'' ranked ''Wish I Was All Flames'' No. 8 on their ''2007 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame''. Release history Recording for the album took place over the course of 18 months in 2005 and 2006, while the band was also recording its EP '' Glare/Halo'' for a different record label. The two albums share a few tracks: "A Summer Without You" and the three-part composition "Her Brother Played the Riot", presented as a single track on the EP. Percussions were recorded by Shane Whitbread in February 2005 and Martin Valence in June 2005, in Chambly and Montreal respectively, while the remaining instruments were recorded in Montreal at ''Thisquietarmy HQ'' and the ''Studio du Carré Rouge'' from 2005 to September 2006. The album would therefore have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glare/Halo
''Glare/Halo'' is a 2006 EP by the Montreal-based instrumental shoegaze band Destroyalldreamers, released on Clairecord's affiliated project Claire's Echo and distributed by Tonevendor. It was released as a limited edition 12-inch vinyl record, with only 300 copies available. The recording and post-production phases were completed in the first half of 2006, making the album available to pre-order in June 2006, although it was not released officially until March 2007. The album contains the two exclusive , Retrieved 2010-04-07 tracks "Dead on Arrival" and "À la Guerre Comme à la Mer", as well as two compositions that later appeared on their second LP '' |
Aidan Baker
Aidan Baker (born 1974/75) is a musician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and as part of various side projects, including Nadja, ARC, Caudal and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry.Adian Baker odiscogs.com/ref> He has toured around the world, and has made appearances at the Unsound Festival, MUTEK, and South by Southwest. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff. Style Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brötzmann, James Plotkin, Steve Albini, and Justin Broadrick. Influences on his musical structures and sound include Sonic Youth, Swans, Sunn O))), Red House Painters, Godflesh, Codeine, and PJ Harvey. Discography *This section is considered incomplete. You can help by adding to it. *''Element'' (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2000) *''I Fall into You'' (CD-R, Public Eyesore, 2002) **Re-released (CD, Basses Frequences, 2008) *''Letters'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drone Music
Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of minimalism". Overview Music which contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow, called "drone music",For information on early and other uses of drones in music around the world, see for example (American Musicological Society, ''JAMS'' (''Journal of the American Musicological Society''), 1959, p255 "Remarks such as those on drone effects produced by double pipes with an unequal number of holes provoke thoughts about the mystery of drone music in antiquity and about primitive polyphony.") or (Barry S. Brook & al., ''Perspectives in Musicology'', W. W. Norton, 1972, , p85 "My third example of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète, minimal music, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by British mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slowdive
Slowdive is a British rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989. The band consists of Rachel Goswell on vocals and guitar, Neil Halstead on vocals and guitar, Christian Savill on guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass and Simon Scott on drums, all of whom have played on the band's debut ''Just for a Day'' in 1991. Halstead is the band's primary songwriter. Goswell and Halstead had known each other since early childhood. The band is one of the most prominent within the shoegaze scene, which rose to prominence in England during the early 1990s. While the band's second album ''Souvlaki'' initially received mixed reviews upon release, it has since been recognized as one of the best releases of the 1990s and one of the greatest shoegaze albums of all time. The band broke up soon after the release of their third album ''Pygmalion'' in 1995, having seen Scott, Savill and Chaplin all depart the band prior. The remaining members continued under a more folk and country-influenced dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song. Originally, it referred to a version of a song released around the same time as the original in order to compete with it. Now, it refers to any subsequent version performed after the original. History The term "cover" goes back decades when cover version originally described a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with the recently released (original) version. Examples of records covered include Paul Williams' 1949 hit tune "The Hucklebuck" and Hank Williams' 1952 song "Jambalaya". Both crossed over to the popular hit parade and had numerous hit versions. Before the mid-20th century, the notion of an original version of a popular tune would have seemed slightly odd – the production of musical entertainment was seen as a live event, even if it was reproduced at home via a cop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
