Artist : Mains De Givre
Album : Esther Marie
Year : 2010
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 240kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 46m
Size : 83.98mb
Label : Textura
Catalognr : textura 002
Tracklist:
01. Un Choeur D'┬mes En DΘtresse 13:32
02. Le Cercle Des Moeurs 7:52
03. Cauchemar Noir Et Rouge 10:44
04. Larmes Sanglantes 14:21
Releasenotes:
Mains de Givre is a violin-centered soundscaping project involving self-taught
experimentalist Eric Quach and classically trained musician Emilie
Livernois-Desroches, both of whom call Montreal home. Quach is widely known for
the experimental ambient work he's produced under his thisquietarmy alias and
also is the founder of the instrumental-shoegazer band Destroyalldreamers.
Livernois-Desroches has played violin since she was seven years old and been
teaching since 2003. She has been a part of various chamber music and symphonic
orchestras, and performs with a wide variety of bands in styles ranging from pop
to medieval to metal. While her previous best-known project was the melodic
folk-black metal band Blackguard (formerly known as Profugus Mortis), Mains de
Givre is her most experimental project to date.
Quach and Livernois-Desroches first crossed paths in 2003 while playing with
their respective bands Destroyalldreamers and Sugarshack as part of the emerging
post-rock scene in Montreal. Following each other's musical achievements over
the years, their mutual respect for each other grew until they found themselves
six years later embarking on a studio collaboration initially intended to be
part of a thisquietarmy release. As their personal and musical chemistry grew,
their newfound closeness turned the collaboration into an official long-term
project they christened Mains de Givre (frost hands) after a nickname that had
been given to Emilie (Θmilie-aux-mains-de-givre) by her bandmates.
Mains de Givre's debut album, Esther Marie, originates from material recorded at
the duo's first jam session in the spring of 2009. The recording opens with the
very first notes the two played together, notes that evoke an eerie sadness that
permeates the album and characterizes the mood of their collaboration. With the
violin as the lead instrument, Quach's guitar playing is restrained yet also
tense, as he generates dark, slowly evolving drone atmospheres alongside subtle,
looped-based patterns that swirl within the lower end of the sound spectrum.
http://www.thisquietarmy.com/mainsdegivre
Mains de Givre, a collaboration between violinist Emilie Livernois-Desroches and
guitarist Eric Quach, resembles Quach's main project thisquietarmy in quite a
few ways. But where thisquietarmy paints a harsh portrait of a bleak landscape,
Mains de Givre composes an impressionistic dreamscape. These notes drift across
time and space like hazy, half-remembered thoughts, providing a soundtrack to
the world of the imaginable. Esther Marie is Main de Givre's debut album, but
the sound on display here speaks to thousands of nights' worth of experience.
Tom Butcher - 86th, top 100 albums of 2010 - thesilentballet.com
http://mainsdegivre.bandcamp.com/album/esther-marie