Langue Hybride

The one-man-project of Eric Quach is happy to reveal the details for his upcoming LP – ‘Langue Hybride’. Written and arranged in less than a month during thisquietarmy’s music residency at Centre d’Expérimentation Musical (CEM) in the region of Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean, Québec. «The goal of the residency was to perform one hour of music ready to be played live, recorded and filmed in front of an audience, which meant I had to write new music from scratch from the first day there, with people I've never met nor played with before.” – explains Eric Quach talking about the nature of the writing process. « I've been working with assigned local session musicians contracted from the music center, where I did my residency. It turned out to be a mix of classical musicians who were used to playing strictly sheet music and jazz/funk/rock musicians who were really into the “jamming” spirit. We had to find ways to push everyone out of their comfort zone in order to bridge the open improvisation of jazz with the austere classical, including my own! Working with several people all at once while trying to compose the music, sorting through the improvised ideas and blending everything together was incredibly overwhelming and intense. I had to do a lot work outside these jam sessions, listening to recordings and creating diagrams for structures and to explicitly express what mood, motifs, emotions I wanted out of all the different parts. So "Langue Hybride" also extends to musical and sonic languages.» 

By the end of the third week, the collective of artists lead by Quach managed to collect 100 people in a hall presenting the results of their work: “…it was really a full year or two of work, condensed in a month”. Enough for the material Eric calls his “most ambitious work”. But also, a full circle, in a way. While Eric’s first project, Destroyalldreamers was a purely, band-effort. It lead to the beginning of thisquietarmy with the release of ‘Wintersleeper’ EP in 2005. “Destroyalldreamers (2002-2007) was really the first time I started making music in general and thisquietarmy was an anti-band, anti-rule, anti-label solo release.” – as a reference to that era of his work, Eric resurrected one of the musical ideas presented on ‘Organismes en aérobiose’ which was shelved during the Destroyalldreamers era. The circle is complete right now. You have to live through, breath it and get lost in the space of a sound.

Vinyl version in co-release with A Thousand Arms Music.