AUN / thisquietarmy / Petrels

Erecting vast sound walls streaked in heavenly celestial electronic whiteout, AUN create a distinctive strain of kosmiche rooted shoegazing grind. Exploratory entity for veteran Montreal experimental, electronic musician Martin Dumais (guitar,bass, violin, synths, programming), AUN blossomed into its current duo form with Julie Leblanc (voice, guitar, programming, video) during the 2008 sessions for Alien8 Recordings release ‘Motorsleep’. Constantly evolving, upcoming releases have the addition of vocals and percussion, resulting in a more song based and rhythmically driven direction, while maintaining AUN’s twisted celestial character. With several very highly praised albums for top tier labels, the duo recently completed their second live audio-visual european tour, have performed at the prestigious Mutek, WGT, and FIMAV festivals, and are now set to release (oct 2011) their most powerful statement yet via German powerhouse Denovali.

thisquietarmy is the experimental guitar-based project of Eric Quach from Montreal, Quebec, Canada — active since 2005. Revolving around improvised drone music, he takes his sonic experimentations further by adding textural and structural elements of post-punk, shoegaze, krautrock, post-rock, black metal and doom metal to them. The results can be described as dark, melodic, expansive and engaging dreamscapes. His live performances are mostly presented as a real-time score to hypnotic ethereal visuals, which he creates himself for each performance.

Petrels is the solo project of Bleeding Heart Narrative's Oliver Barrett, whose debut album for Tartaruga, Haeligewielle, has recently been reissued by Denovali.