(Catalogue no. 16038)
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| Title: |
Blackhorse |
| Artist: |
AUN |
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Label: |
Oral |
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CD |
| Price: |
€ 14.20 |
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Title Description:
Following the release of the MULE album for oral records, AUN pulled out his stringed instruments and dusted them off for a series of concerts and new recordings, bringing to life the dark and brooding Blackhorse? album and it's more luminous companion cd Whitehorse (fall 2007).
Echoes of an adolescent past, nurtured to the sound of Swans, Ennio Morricone , Zoviet France and some dirty shoegazing came to the forefront, even including a 1990 squeeling guitar solo in the track Horsemen. Blackhorse? is a raw, forward thinking, highly musical album, firmly based in his DIY, no holds barred past.
AUN serves as an experimental interpretation of Martin Dumais music ; where brutality, the dark, the beautiful and the melodic come together with engaging results. Ambient is often used to describe the sound of AUN, but the music is not intended to function as backround, yielding physical response to the listeners.
Before Martin Dumais was in the somewhat off-kilter and acclaimed electronic duo Les Jardiniers with JF Magnet. Les Jardiniers released four albums, received two adisq awards (QuŽbec? Grammy's) and played internationally until he got weary of more dancefloor oriented production. He also recorded the 1996 album Juicebox, with Marc Leclair who would later be known as Akufen. There were several early incarnations of AUN like his soon to be re-released O.D.D.S. project (Angle rec 2008). Initiated at age of 13 and inspired industrial music, Dumais used primitive musical equipment to forge his own sound. AUN now blends low-fi aesthetics with his fetish of new technology, recognizing the open ended area of AUN? work and yearning for more experimentation without the trappings of rock and electronic music.
After three albums for oral records in less than a year, prolific and freed of previous shackles, Dumais, continues to record AUN material for a fourth release which will include several high profile collaborations.
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