Artist:AUN
Whitehorse
Catalogue # oral CD19
sortie:3 juin 2007
écrit et produit à Montréal par Martin
Dumais
guitare électrique, guitare préparée, programmation
myspace.com/martindumais
couverture:Seldon Hunt www.seldonhunt.com
design:Martin Dumais, Eric Mattson
Mayburry First Class
Gentl Cut
Borghami
Cassidy
Bastis Blond
Chevaline
Orga
Chell
Dltag
(Traduction française non encore disponible. Désolé)
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 luminous Whitehorse album and its darker and brooding companion cd Blackhorse.
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 undefinable and 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 (Québec 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, Martin 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 album 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. Selling points
-Artwork by Seldon Hunt:graphic designer for Neurosis, Khanate, Jesu, Null, Hydrahead Records, Isis, Kid 606, Lotus Eaters, Troum
-Companion CD to Blackhorse
-Solo and augmented live act.
For Listeners of:
Final, Jesu, KTL, Nadja, Sunn O)), Tim Hecker, Stars Of The Lid, Oren Ambarchi, Robin Storey
More info available at :
myspace.com/martindumais
aunted.blogspot.com/
www.oral.qc.ca