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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