Music by Philippe BraultVideo art by Marc-André LabelleFull album: https://philippebrault.bandcamp.com/album/fear-and-greed-music-for-a-performance-by-fr-d-r...

Maintaining a connection with both the artificial and emotional, Brault captures a progressive mood in his most recent EP

Canadian Philippe Brault is an artist with a wide range of skills at his disposal, having worked as a sound designer, producer, and arranger. He took steps towards touring as a musician at the early age of eighteen, and his rise in the electronica community has seen him work closely with artists such as Pierre Lapointe, Dear Criminals, Philémon Cimon and Salomé Leclerc. It’s a journey which has earned Brault awards for his involvement in projects both as an arranger and composer, including the IRIS for Best Original Score.

His identity as an established professional has also helped fuel tours across Europe and Quebec, but the territory Brault has ventured into most recently is that of krautrock and post rock, as he announces his newest EP.

Titled “Fear and Greed”, the five track collection strives on the balance of mechanical resolution and deeply human disassociation. Originally the music scored a 2019 production of the same name, created by choreographer Frederick Gravel. Brault constructed the tracks featured on the EP with the show’s central theme of transcendence and ritual in mind, an approach which delivers a strikingly methodical soundscape which succeeds in illuminating a world of quiet emotion.

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Canadian digital media artist and composer Myke Dean, aka Wiklow, wraps up an eventful 2019 with a pensive yet purposeful EP entitled ‘Bloom’ out now on Montreal’s eclectic UNLOG imprint. Serving as the culmination of years of audio research alongside his visual collaborators Diagraf and Push 1 stop, ‘Bloom’ serves as a contemporary reduction of sorts to Wiklow’s sound of fragmented instrumentation and high tech sound design.

The EP opens with the deceivingly subdued ambiance of ‘Less than a Ghost More than a Shade’. Yet it shouldn’t take long for the casual observer to realize that all is not cherry blossoms and plum trees as more dissonant notes take over plunging the listener into an icy cold bath of pitched delays and subterranean spurts of noise.

The EP appropriately opens up into a subsequent number of idm infused, highly detailed electronic excursions highlighting Wiklow’s attention to detail and keen ear to atmosphere. Before sending the listener off into hyperspace, a final and lasting impression is downloaded with ‘Do Not Shiver in my Memory’. The parting track leaves us with a feeling of interstellar nostalgia and perhaps even utter defeat, yet somewhere in between the rolling percussion and sawtooth waveforms there lies some sort of resilient emotional expression which might even resemble hope.

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