Signal 9, by Miriodor

Signal 9

by Miriodor

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Hardo Strange and beautifull at the same time. Gentle Giant meet Henry Cow meet Univers zero. Favorite track: Venin.

NON FLYING CARPETS imagination in soundsculptures

Tom Landon An excellent return from this Francophone Quebec band which has consistently produced exciting music for more than 30 years now. Fascinating sounds!
Merci les gars! Favorite track: Passage secret.

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1.	Venin 04:33
2.	Peinturé dans le coin 04:34
3.	Transit de nuit à Jakarta 02:00	buy track
4.	Portrait-robot 08:47
5.	Déboires à Munich 01:21
6.	Chapelle lunaire 06:52
7.	Cryogénie 01:38
8.	Passage secret 09:58
9.	Gallinule d'Amérique 01:40
10.	Douze petites asperges 02:39
11.	Le ventriloque et le perroquet 08:13

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"With a career going back over 30 years, French-Canadian band Miriodor have carved out an instantly recognizable sound that straddles avant rock and jazz...Miriodor have a wonderful sense of melody to counter their more experimental tendencies, and [the band] pulls off the hard to achieve feat of being both quite odd and very accessible at the same time."
– Astounded By Sound!

"Metaphorically, we could say that Miriodor is a planet, with aliens communicating in their mysterious ways with planet Earth," says Miriodor's keyboardist, Pascal Globensky. In that sense, the long-lived Montreal band's ninth album, entitled Signal 9, could simply be considered the ninth set of musical messages from that exotic heavenly body.

The Miriodor discography has been building strength upon strength with each successive album. The band combines jazz, classical, rock, and international influences for an arresting, idiosyncratic sound that eludes description but remains immediately identifiable as Mirodor.

Picking up where the most recent coded message from planet Miriodor, 2013's Cobra Fakir, left off, Signal 9 arrives like an invitation to an otherworldly voyage. Each track marks another twist and turn in a journey across strange, captivating landscapes populated by creatures, crafts, and constructions whose like has never been glimpsed outside the band's idiosyncratic ecosystem.

Globensky, drummer Rémi Leclerc, and guitarist Bernard Falaise have expanded Miriodor to a quartet with the addition of bassist Nicolas Lessard as a full-time member. Accordingly, the band works like a one eight-handed, four-brained organism here, operating more organically and collectively than ever.

And while Miriodor often forges some of their heaviest sounds to date over the course of Signal 9, the album is also loaded with off-the-wall humor and some beautiful, contemplative melodic moments. The combination makes for some crafty contrasts, frequently flipping back and forth drastically from one mood to another multiple times within a single composition for a jarring-but-thrilling effect.

Once you return to your everyday life after emerging from the alternative universe of Signal 9, the whole album seems like some kind of fever dream you've just emerged from. But the big difference is that it's a dream you're eager to leap right back into again.

credits

released May 12, 2017

Miriodor:
Bernard Falaise guitares / claviers / table tournante
Pascal Globensky claviers / synths / piano
Rémi Leclerc batterie / percussions / électroniques
Nicolas Lessard basse / contrebasse / claviers

Music composed and played by Miriodor.

Recorded in Montréal in 2015 and 2016
by Bernard Grenon and Bernard Falaise.

Recorded and mixed / Bernard Falaise
Mastering / Bernard Grenon
Graphics and design / l’Atelier du Presse-Citron

Thanks to Bernard Grenon, Patrick La Roque, Michael Bennett, Dennis Rea, Martin Horst, Michel Besset, Charly Heidenreich, Steve Feigenbaum and all at Cuneiform Records.

Miriodor thanks the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for their support.

This album is dedicated to François Émond (1964-2016), founding member of Miriodor.

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Miriodor albums available on Bandcamp:

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/signal-9

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cobra-fakir

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/avanti

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/parade-live-at-nearfest

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mekano

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jongleries-lastiques-elastic-juggling

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/3-avertissement-3rd-warning

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/miriodor

- cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rencontres

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Founded in 1984.
Based in Washington D.C.

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