Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche
Discography
Over the past few years, Montreal kraut-funk quartet Avec le soleil
sortant de sa bouche has established itself as something of a local
supergroup – its members have been active in this city's experimental
rock communities for well over a decade, including participation
in Panopticon Eyelids, Pas Chic Chic, Red Mass, Set Fire to Flames, and, from the Constellation roster, Fly Pan Am – and gained a local reputation for irresistible and levitational
live sets combining a contemporary/avant-garde sensibility with
infectiously angular, rubbery grooves.
Avec le soleil formed in Montreal in 2011 as a trio of bassist,
singer and composer Jean-Sebastien Truchy (of Fly Pan Am),
guitarist/engineer Sebastien Fournier and drummer Nasir Hasan, with
several lineup expansion and contractions over the following couple of
years. Summer 2014 found the group solidified into a tight four-piece
unit (Truchy, Fournier, Eric Gingras on guitar and, with the departure
of Hasan, Samuel Bobony in the drummer's chair), careening towards
mastery of a highly original, deeply satisfying, giddy and heady
avant-funk.
The band's debut LP, 2014’s Zubberdust!, featured a pair of exquisite and exhilarating 20-minute pieces and
manifests the culmination of the group's first two years of conceptual
and somatic development. Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much, due out in January 2017, picks up where Zubberdust! left off: sinuous bass, chiming guitars and wordless vocals are
interwoven with fizzing and squelching electronics to propel the
band's signature, methodically exuberant grooves. Sonic collage and
cut-ups wonderfully destabilize the new album, creating little
disturbances and wake-up bells along the overriding trance rock
journey. Avec le soleil deploys a panoply of buoyant musical ideas,
subtly sumptuous sonic treatments, and joyous stylistic nods — while
remaining fundamentally devoted to working the groove, from a
kaleidoscope of angles. This is post-modern psychedelic electronic
funk-rock the likes of which we can honestly say we’ve not heard
before.