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chedelic visual art, in order to walk downa new musical path. Indeed, pretty ambitiousfor a band's first release, and beforelistening it mostly seemed pretentious andrather silly. But... I was very, very wrong.The music of Abstruse (a synonym of "obscure",it seems) is extremely experimental,though it rarely leaves a metalliccontext. Their claiming of using the disharmonicscales of 20th centuryavantgardist composers is definitely noostentatious bullshit, among the darkmetal riffs (a fair reference should be earlyprogressive death metal) I can hear notonly traces of Schönberg's Twelve-tonetechnique, but a distinct use of it; programmedmelodies intertwine with guitarsweeps, melodies are turned inside out,played in reverse, everything those Germansdid back in the angst ridden 1920's.The dreamy whole tone scales of Debussyadd a misty surreal veil to the chaotic dodecaphony...But still, they never leave themetallic course. Bloody awesome? Indeed!The opener hints both to the crazy electrojazzof Last-Minute Lies-era Fleurety andto the playfulness of the Atrox guitarists.The slightly slower "Ceremonial Torches"brings to mind a dark mix of Karl Sandersmythological solo works and The Residents(!!!). The guitar lines at points resemblethe works of Carl-August Tidemannbefore joining Winds (i.e. Arcturus)...but enough references. Is itstrange? Yes. Great? YES. Few canachieve music as technically stunning asthis, without simultaneously losing myinterest. Very cerebral. I like that.The vocals are pretty strange, deep halfroaredwhispers most of the time. Theprogrammed drums might annoy some,but they merge naturally with the overalltechnological sound; only the blastbeatssounds plastic. What I also like is the visualsaccompanying some of the songs ona DVD. Psychedelic as hell, blurry shots ofnature flowing into each other in manypretty colours (a lot of colour inversionand that kind of stuff). I‘m an ignorantwhen it comes to video art, but I knowwhat I enjoy. This, for example. If you arein any way interested in experimental,groundbreaking or just highly technicalmusic, you want to hear this. This willdefinitely not be the last you’ll hear fromAbstruse.aVoidAUNMultigoneRelease: 2008Label: Crucial BlastAvantgenre: Blight MetalDuration: 57:35Origin: Montreal (CA)Officialsite: http://www.myspace.com/martindumais.............................................................................................................................................From Montreal - Canada - I recently discoverednoise/ambient music should get acquaintedan artist whom I thought everyoneinterested in extreme/experimental and with. Martin Dumais, aka AUN,before turning into the twisted sound wiz-
ard he has become, was also secretly activein Montreal's underground techno,tech house and downtempo scenes, forexample with his band Les Jardiniers (TheGardeners). But back to our business, hislast album Multigone has just been releasedby Crucial Blast, and it definitelyhas something strongly atmospheric goingon, as Dumais is handling guitars, bass,violin and electronics altogether, to createa borderline ambient/metal majestuouspiece of work. The first two tracks Multigoneand Consumed by Flies are massive,heavy, drone-dirge, epic fire brails of alienatedtextures. Both songs might as wellburn your brain and leaves you breathlessand self-consumed. If you ask me, thisdoesn't only bears the mark of an extremenoise take on volcano drone metal, but italso, like on the magickal Steel Skull Plain,investigates through surrealistic and psychedelicdark industrial ambient figures.It's limitless music so to speak or as tobreeze out unclear - whatever linguisticsyou prefer.Surprisingly, next song Stables soundslike backward Stoner rock on ecstasy. Itsvery fluid like, and yet the badass rockingfeeling is all over the place and growingmore and more weirded out. And as thesong is dissolving, Halfmoon Halfchoketakes the next lead and shines through itsshimmering, blazing, fuzzy, slumbering,drony, hypnotizing, blissed-out, foggy andcelestial ambient ascension. Palejoy thenexposes a more beatlord side of AUN, andI must say I'm quite impressed: at somepoint, I was even thinking to myself thatthis was like some kind of Psyche DoomicTrip Hop or something. The guitars soundsaturated, eerily industrial, reminding meof a rusty, bubbling, phosphorescent mire,while the deep bass line groove underneathis perfectly assembled in a way youcan't resist to head nod along the strongatmosphere. Last song Kwelbo Krong goesback to more noise territory covering,which includes many other extraterrestrialinfluences. Add to that a very oppressivequality within the guitar noise riffing andit easily gets both overloaded and meditativeat the same time. Contradictio? Noneat all. Extreme music the way AUN does itbasically crosses, sometimes many, sometimesquite a few dense and highly compactedemotions against each other, to thepoint where it just feels naturally encompassing.From zero to infinity, I might easily saythat Multigone, as an album, conveys andmaximizes the darker spirits of Extrememetal, while actually keeping up with psychedelismin sculpture and avant ambient/noisein texture and genre. With thisalbum, Dumais really captured an organised,organic and otherworldly vision, onlyto let us experience its spectral liveliness.By the way, Multigone is limited to 300copies so in case you would want to experienceit at home, act fast! And for thosewho would enjoy discovering the specificallydrone/ambient side-brother of AUN,way more minimal than what I describedin this review, I suggest you click on therecord's name, if you want to downloadthe free four songs mp3-album FIELD,which was released by Clinical Archives in2007. This hasn't made as much an impacton me as Multigone did, but it's anotherfacet to AUN's unpredictable art.Oliver Side
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