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CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket with 4-colour silkscreen print in metallic gold, flourescent pink, light blue and black inks, printed by Jacinthe Loranger and Jesse Purcell at Repetitive Press in Montreal. LP comes in thick 25pt cardstock jacket with 4-colour silkscreen print in same colours, with slightly different artwork. Original artwork by Jacinthe Loranger.
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Brûlez ce coeur is the first official full-length from Les Momies, following the group's L'amour sincère CD-R self-released in 2007. Les Momies create an uncategorisable sound built up from a core of keyboards, processed violin and voices: slow-paced without being ponderous; synthetic without being retro; methodically restrained and strangely devotional without being easily tagged as ethereal or gothic. Brûlez ce coeur is often like an ersatz sacred music: canticles on acid, full of strange quirks and avant sounds while remaining soothing, meditative and incantatory.
Tracklist
1. Rivière du non-retour
2. Solis
3. Incarnation
4. Le cerf invisible
5. Brûlez ce coeur
6. Médée
7. Outre-temps
8. Je t'aime
Running time: 00:42:00
Packaging Notes
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket with 4-colour silkscreen print in metallic gold, flourescent pink, light blue and black inks, printed by Jacinthe Loranger and Jesse Purcell at Repetitive Press in Montreal. LP comes in thick 25pt cardstock jacket with 4-colour silkscreen print in same colours, with slightly different artwork. Original artwork by Jacinthe Loranger.
Please see Musique Fragile Vol. 01 for additional packaging components when this album is purchased as part of the 3-album Musique Fragile set.
Description
Les Momies De Palerme is the Montreal-based duo of Marie Davidson (violin, synths, vocals) and Xarah Dion (synths, vocals). We first heard from Xarah as a mail-order customer years ago, and then received the occasional long hand-written letter from her soon after she moved to Montreal from Quebec City, introducing herself more fully and ruminating on her sense of displacement and re-orientation. She remained unknown to us except in name, until a couple of years later when we were struck by an otherworldly performance by Les Momies de Palerme and realised Xarah was one half of the duo. Marie and Xarah both have gone on to make many musical connections in the city, including membership in Sam Shalabi's Land Of Kush orchestra. They are also among the founders of La Brique, an artist-run DIY space that hosts regular loft shows of all sorts.
Brûlez ce coeur is the first official full-length from Les Momies, following the group's L'amour sincère CD-R self-released in 2007. Les Momies create an uncategorisable sound built up from a core of keyboards, processed violin and voices: slow-paced without being ponderous; synthetic without being retro; methodically restrained and strangely devotional without being easily tagged as ethereal or gothic. Brûlez ce coeur is often like an ersatz sacred music: canticles on acid, full of strange quirks and avant sounds while remaining soothing, meditative and incantatory.
Recorded at David Bryant's (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames) studio The Pines in Montreal, Brûlez ce coeur takes advantage of the fantastic acoustics of this space and Bryant's fine collection of spring and plate reverbs. The album also rallies contributions from notable guest players like Sam Shalabi (oud), Luke Dawson (contrebasse) and David Bryant himself (electric guitar). The results are immersive, disorienting and gently unmoored; it is hard to know where to plot this record in any historical timeline, geographic place or stylistic continuum.
Credits
Les Momies de Palerme is Marie Davidson and Xarah DionGuests
Dave Bryant: GuitarLuke Dawson: Contrebasse
Liz Lima: Clarinette
Osama Shalabi: Oud
Nathan Ward: percussion
All material recorded by the artists except Les Momies De Palerme, recorded by Dave Bryant at The Pines and mixed by Dave Bryant at The Pines (tracks 1, 6) and Radwan Moumneh at Hotel2Tango. All material mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market.
Reviews
"A beautiful blend of vocals, processed violin, clarinet and drifting synths, the duo immerse the listener in serene layers of gentle tones and flickering noise... From otherworldly meditative vocal textures to intricate plucked strings, Les Momies De Palerme inhabit their own unique world" – Fluid Radio
"Pale incantation-like vocals waft like dry ice across a dark and meagre instrumental terrain… While this spectre of 80's-inspired darkness looms, it doesn't encroach upon the pair's focus and originality. The strong presence of a juicy analogue-synth element gestures towards the warmth of 1970's kosmische, while other ingredients have been plucked variously from the more diffuse end of recent psychedelia, free improv, and even liturgical musics." – Musicworks
"Quebec City escapees who channel their sense of displacement into droning soundscapes and infernal hymns built from a core of keys, processed violin and voices." – Blurt Online
"The quirky, esoteric sounds here almost defy description as they flit from canticular, post-industrial works (the ethereal eight-minute 'Solis', for one) to painstaking threnodies like the brief 'Outre-temps', where Davidson draws out a treated violin to mostly wonderful effect... a haunting listen, one where patience is definitely its own reward." – Canuckistan Music
"Brûlez represents the sound of a city: bubbling, bustling, brimming with big plans and burgeoning ideas." – The Silent Ballet
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