Thisquietarmy is the main musical project of Eric Quach who was commissioned by the Centre D'Experimentation Musical that is based in Saguenay Lac-St Jean Quebec to spend a month writing and rehearsing with an ensemble of the Institutes choosing with a performance on the final day of the residency that was recorded and after some mixing is now Langue Hybride. The CEM ensemble players were Bruno Quelief, Isabelle Harvey, Jessy Dube, Emile Boucher-Claufer and Stephane Beaulieu. It was recorded by Dany Lemay and mixed by Eric Quach.
The album opens with Les Rayons Cosmiques slowly bowed cellos and violin create eerie feelings, the rumbling drums add too. Disquiet generated though slow guitar flickers, leading into a more intense building riff structure the violin seems to thrive off.
Respirer L'Instablite has doomed tonal dismayed guitars, with bowel scraping drums and sonic interference for the violins to wind themselves around. Dread and darkness are ever present within the malaise created around the steady core. Until five minutes in everything falls away to a quiet introspective phase, a seeming period of calm that slowly evolves into more of a funky strutting guitar part, violin plays off, free forming, almost crossing into the dreaded jam band territory, close to the end of the 15 minute piece guitar and bass become far heavier like a storm has arrived.
Les Radicaux Libres slowly stretches notes and feelings in ways not dissimilar to Holger Czukay's work with David Sylvian, the albums artwork also seems inspired by that duo's Plight & Premonitions artwork. When the synths or keys come in the tune starts rising through the oscillations, instructed by hieroglyphs in a recently found letter.
Organismes En Aerobiose has a spaetzle Western Krautrock feel, the intensity builds similarly too The Monroe Transfer or Oxbow leaning into interstitial spaces, on the long flight into the new reality, with a truly terrifying decent back to earth conclusion.
The performance and album concludes with Solastalgie Impalpable pulsations building, towards industrial grinding guitars, battling against the super insistent violins, triumphalist drumming, warped waves of Solastalgie washing over us, amps left expiring onstage, band leave the keyboardist behind. A lone tabla player sends messages through the forests, with carefully emotive stings, eventually the rest of the band wander back on for the final rousing onrush that is a totally palpable cyclone of musical energy.
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