-Origin of the name (2008)

“Lantern’s Awake” was a title with which I came up some time in early 2008, while I lived in the Ville Marie district of Montreal, at 2108 Bleury Street. I had no idea how the title would be used; either as a song title or an album title. I also had no new material requiring a title, but I liked the way it sounded so it was kept for a later use.

On September 9th of 2008, I recorded a new song without any affinity to a specific band or project. The new song had three segments: an Asian-sounding intro (which was a sort of re-working of the intro from the unreleased Vision Lunar song “Lunar XIII”, which had been composed roughly a year prior), and two folk-style strumming parts with reverb.

At the time that I was recording this new song, I was under the impression that I was composing indie rock, something along the lines of Green Territory, Douglas Fir and Crosstide. I decided to name this new song “Lantern’s Awake“, finally using the title which I had noted earlier that year.

I spent the next few months debating if I had what it took to start a new indie rock band. Finally, on December 22nd of 2008, I came up with the album title that I would use if such a band would ever exist: “Nebraska Motion”. But this idea fizzled out in early 2009 and I gave up the idea to play indie rock. I still really liked the title “Lantern’s Awake” and planned to reuse it at a later time.

A little while later, perhaps around 2009, I realized that this new song sounded like a mix between Vision Éternel (the reverb and the general sound of the production) and Vision Solitude (the folk-like strumming). In the end, this song wound up being labeled a Vision Solitude song.

-Post-Metal and Doom (2010)

It was during the “dark Marina days” (which would also bring the Éphémère collaboration) that I started jamming with Mina tuned in AADGBE. I didn’t know anyone who used this tuning, but I was often experimenting tunings for Soufferance. During January 2010 I recorded some of the lengthy Soufferance pieces in that tuning such as “Alternating Perfections”. Soufferance didn’t use distortion, but when I started jamming with some, I found that I had a really cool sludgy/post-metal sound. That was still during the hype of the recently released post-metal compilation “Diluvian Temperals”, so I was listening to a lot of those bands. I came up with about three really cool riffs and started building up something atmospheric around them. In some ways this was a new way to express the atmospheric black metal that I had done with Vision Lunar. I really loved the direction that I was going in, and this was a perfect opportunity to use the name Lanterns Awake again (dropping the apostrophe, although the meaning of the phrase was cooler with it). But I also strongly considered using the name “Arctodus” if I ever expanded to a full band. It was trendy for post-metal bands to name themselves after large animals; “Pelican”, “Mastodon”, “Lone Wolf”, and also many artworks featured deer, elks, large prey birds, bears, lions, wolves, or pre-historic animals. “Arctodus” was an interesting animal which wasn’t taken so I almost went for it.

February 12, 2010. Posted on FB “jamming some new Lanterns Awake.. creativity phase is back?”

I was working on only two songs. One that was really atmospheric and another that was more brutal, I was going to have two long songs for an EP, the same way Last Minute to Jaffna did their first EP. By March I was already thinking of the artwork. My maternal grandmother’s father used to operate one of the largest leather company in North America from the early to mid 1900s. It was called Ernest Beaudoin, and they used to have specially made bags for purchases. I found one at my grandmas one day, and I was really impressed by the artwork. I wanted to trace back who created it and possibly use it for the artwork of this EP, which I found fitted perfectly. I started retracing the entire bag on Adobe Illustrator, leaving out the man in the middle. It was a very lengthy job and I put it on hold until a later time.

 

In late March 2010 I traded my Epiphone guitar for a B.C. Rich Mockingbird from my friend Charles “Charli” Andre Lemieux, because we both liked each other’s model better and wanted to use the bodies to rebuild our own guitars. But he had been dishonest with me. The trust rod was broken in his B.C. Rich and it was unplayable. There was fretbuz beyond belief and it sounded like shit. I tuned it in Drop A and after starting to jam something really doomy death metal on April 1st, I decided I would attempt to record a doom metal song demo every day, for as long as I could. I succeeded on April 2nd as well. Those were titled “Part One” and “Part Two”, in hopes of having more parts. I recorded those two songs on a 4-track that Darklink (Phil Altobelli) had given me in 2009. I wasn’t doing Projection Mina anymore, so I put those two songs in the Lanterns Awake folder. I contacted Garry Brents about doing some very lo-fi drum programming on them and to send it off to tape only underground labels, but he had no time for that.

this wasn’t a serious project, i was purposely trying to make things that sounded terrible, just to see if people would jump on it, because it was trendy. Garry was doing a ton of crap like that. labels like Svartgalgh and imprints were peddling shit like that to people left and right. I felt insulted that the music that I spent a long time perfecting was being ignored in favor of bedroom projects that recorded shitty drone metal, and they were getting attention and selling out their pressings. Marina’s boyfriend Paul listened to a ton of that crap. It was me wanting to do something anonymous just to see how far I could take something that really was bad music.

When I chose the name Lanterns Awake that’s when I created the Myspace page.

April 1, 2010 is when I created the Bandcamp page. Likely already had the Myspace page.

Appears that I also created email lanternsawake@gmail.com around the same time. It was probably necessary for Bandcamp.

 

Vincent Cassar Communications

Me: 4/24/10, 7:58 PM Facebook
salut dude. je travail sur un nouveau projet doom très lo-fi. j’enregistre mes tracks de guitar sur un 4-track recorder et ensuite je les transfert sur mon ordi…
c’est un peu du doom-core… je pourrais te montrer ca si t’es intéressé… je me recherche quelqu’un avec qui collaborer coter drum machine…
ca te dit? c’est très simple comme truc mais ca pourrais être le fun comme side-project a faire sortir sur des petits labels en quantité super limité.

Cassar: 4/26/10, 7:18 AM Facebook
Yo mec! je vais etre obligé de decliner parceque avec le taf et mes autres groupes.. je n ai plus du tout de temps! mais je serai curieux d ecouter ca! ca va pour toi et abridge sinon c temps ci?

 

Garry Brents Communications for Doom Drone Project

Me: 4/28/10, 1:56 AM Facebook
hey dude! short time no speak… ive got this new studio project going. i guess its called “doom-core”, but let me describe it quickly. i improvise very sludgy doom metal songs with death metal type breakdowns at the endings, and record them on my 4-track player, and then transfer them to my computer. so its very low fi. im looking for a partner in this band to do drums or drum programming over this stuff, and send it off to small record labels in the genre that will do limited pressings. are you interested in collaborating?
alex

Garry: 4/28/10, 3:15 AM Facebook
hey alex! unfortunately you caught me at a bad time. I’m sort of without my own computer and I have a couple things I’m doing where I’m programming the drums already and it’s very seldom that I get to work on it as is. If/when I can get a new computer for myself, I’d like to help if you haven’t found help yet by that time! I’d like to hear some samples of it too, maybe I can squeeze in some drum programming if I get extra time. It sounds like a cool idea, too .
-garry

Me: 4/28/10, 4:00 AM Facebook
damn dude. everyone ive asked has backed out of it.. can you recommend anyone to me? anyone at all? ill take live or programmed drums… or let me know as soon as youve got some time towork on them. i write and record a lot of demos because its so easy to do. but here is the very first demo i recorded… the prod needs to be polished a bit, but generally i want it to sound lo-fi and bad. but just not “that” bad haha
http://www.mediafire.com/?gynegttinxw [Doom Metal Demo 01 April 2010.wav]

Garry: 4/28/10, 3:22 PM Facebook
I don’t really know anyone who plays drums anymore, but I can ask some of my friends who also program drums.
I’ll give this a listen though, and see if I can help out

Me: 4/28/10, 3:24 PM Facebook
tnx dude! i hope you dig the music!

 

That wasn’t so much a serious plan of mine either, it was more of an experiment to see how far I could get this shitty music. I was disgusted by how many drone and dark ambient bedroom projects out there turned out a ridiculous amount of crap on a weekly basis. Some bands had upwards of 50 releases a year, on a ton of various record labels. It was a joke. I knew some of those people somewhat personally, from talking with them online, and some of the record labels as well, as they had worked with Soufferance. I wanted to see if I could come up with the most ridiculous sounding, metal-machine music type of material and throw it in the face of those record labels.

One of those was Cara Neir, which I couldn’t take seriously, very likely why I reached out to Garry in the first place.

By summer 2010, I had moved and was living on Henri-Bourassa and I was confident enough of the two post-metal songs to place an add on Craigslist, Kijiji and Afterdawn (a forum which I had been part of for a long time that had no relevance to music) to find other musicians. At this time, I was particularly influenced by Woburn House’s album “Monstrous Manoeuvres in the Mushroom Maze”. A guy from Ireland that was either visiting Montreal, or here on an extended vacation (trying to find a job under the table) responded to me with great interest. His name was Ivan Byrne and he played guitar. Back in Ireland he had played a couple of post-grunge bands, Outbreed, Feeding Time, Wishbone and Sundance Crow. He came over my apartment on July 16th to jam. I showed him the first song, which he loved, and then I showed him the second song which wasn’t done, and finally we started working on a third song right away on our first meeting. It was really promising and we had a really awesome dinner of poutines from Orange Julip that Laura had brought home. A couple days later he sent me a GuitarPro demo of the third song we had started working on, fully composed in his own view, called “Illuminatum”. I didn’t really like the other riffs he came up with, but I figured we would both have to make some compromise. However he shadily stopped responding to my emails after that day and never gave me news again… all the while he was active on Facebook, so I knew he wasn’t dead or gone back to Ireland. It took him a month to respond, by an email, saying that he was eager to jam again, only to disappear again. I was really depressed about Ivan ditching me, and no one else had responded to my adds, so naturally I felt like my music wasn’t good. The only thing that kept me going was that Laura liked it, and she used to joke about a certain moshing riff that was in the first song.

I also just had a falling out with Charli. So I decided to say “fuck Lanterns Awake”, and release the two doomy death metal 4-track demos under the EP “The Times and Betrayals of Charles Adrian Lemieure, in Two Parts” on August 22nd, 2010. I even used the artwork I had been working on for this, and it wasn’t finished so I just used the original scan and Photoshoped it. I was supposed to go to New Jersey with my uncle for a week to appear in a movie that Howard Change (Sabbat from Throne of Mortality) was filming that late August, and my uncle backed out and fucked me over. I was pissed and decided to just record two more doomy death metal 4-track demos and release another Lanterns Awake EP, as the band was going nowhere now. Laura even came over that weekend when it happened, and tried to cheer me up, but nothing worked. On September 4th 2010, “The Unforgivable Truth of a Broken Family, a Contemporary Piece in Two Parts” was released. The two 4-track-doomy-death-metal-eps were in fact very bad material, and I have since discontinued their distribution, but I continued to liked the album titles that I used. I wish that they would have been planned a bit better though.

List of jams with Luca:
September 3rd
September 8th
September 12th
September 16th
September ? (unconfirmed)
October 10th
October 19th (possibly the day we recorded on his equipment)

List of jams with Fleurent:
October 9th (recorded at his place)
October 14th

List of jams with MacDowall:
January 29th
February 3rd (recorded at his place)

Out of nowhere, some luck occurred on September 1st when Alex Luca got in touch with me through the AfterDawn forum post. He was a bassist, and he told me that he was very technical and played a custom 7 string bass. I was blown away, and he agreed to come over and jam later that week on September 3rd. He really liked the first song I had been working on, and said there was hardly anything to work on. However the second and third songs were pretty average.

That first jam we started fixing up the first song and adding ideas to the third. I was listening to Bathory a lot during that time, so the second song ended up having a great deal of similar riffs.

Alex and I jammed once more that week on September 8th. That night I recorded all three songs to see where we were at, and also because he said that he had a friend named Phil who played drums and would probably want to join us. So I sent him the three recordings and he showed Phil.

Phil suggested that we name ourselves “Gravity Well”, and Alex was interested in that whole space themed music. He also suggested that the first song be called “Entering of the Mind’s Sarcophagus”. I thought all that stuff was over done already and that title/name were bogus. I still wanted to just do a two song EP to start with, and the theme I wanted was something more complex and personal (I can’t recall the concept I had in mind), and I liked the names “Arctodus” or “Orque” (which is Orca in French), and still wanted to use the name Lanterns Awake more than anything. The only space theme that I was interested in was to cover the main “Dune” theme from the film, a soundtrack that has always been in my favourites. I wanted to do a cover of the main theme in an atmospheric post-metal version for the opener of our shows.

Alex and I jammed another time on September 12th, and then once again on September 16th, and by this time the first song was finished and we had deconstructed the second and third songs in order to put them back together as a single one, only keeping the good parts and composing new riffs to it. I recorded those two songs that night as well. His friend Phil had backed out of the plan by then because he didn’t own a drum set and some other bullshit reasons.

Maybe around mid-September 2010, Jeremy Roux tells his friends Guillaume Fleurent and another Jeremy about Abridged Pause Recordings.

On September 24th, 2010, Paulhus leaves a comment on Vision Eternel’s Last.fm page praising the music and offering to publish posts: “Excellent matériel, si jamais vous avez des news à faire diffuser. Passez par le www.pelecanus.net / Great stuff, if you want to share some news with the post-rock community, just ask www.pelecanus.net”

While Alex was busy with his main band, I found Guillaume Fleurent through Paulhus (https://www.last.fm/user/William_Paulhus) who knew of him and that he was looking for a band. I sent Guillaume an email on October 6th and he responded on the 7th. He lived really close to me in Ahuntsic, and I could walk to his apartment in ten minutes.

First jammed with Guillaume on October 9th. Recorded the two songs there that day. That afternoon I showed him the two songs we had, and I even recorded them at his home studio for him to practice to until we jammed again a week later. He seemed really dedicated, and he was an audio producer with a nice home studio, and had recorded a few noisecore and metalcore bands back in his hometown. Alex and I both thought it could be to our benefit to have him in the band.

On October 10th I had one of the last jams with Alex, and we were working on a brand new piece, but only had the first riff.

The second time I jammed with Guillaume was on October 14th. So one week later I went back to his place to jam the songs again. I was really disappointed to find out that he had not learned the songs and had trouble keeping up with me during jamming. It wasn’t that he was a bad guitar player, but for some reason he was unable to comprehend the slow-galloping picking that I was playing. So we amicably agreed that it wasn’t going to work out. On his side, Alex didn’t have time to jam for our band anymore.

[The Inarguable sent me the Vision Eternel interview on the night of October 13th/14th; I answered it right away ove-night, and it was published later that same day, the 14th. so I answered the questions, went to jam with Guillaume, then later that night the interview was published. That means that by this time, Paulhus had already blackballed me; since he was friends with Guillaume, maybe it had something to do with it.]

On our next jam, October 19th Alex and I attempted to record some guitar and bass demos. He brought along his external sound card and his laptop, but he had no idea how to get it running nor how to record anything at all with distortion. He was getting mad at the way the things sounded once recorded and he wanted to go for a Djent sound, something very compressed and over-produced. I liked Cloudkicker, but I wasn’t technical enough to pull that off. Finally, he gave up trying to record and said that it was my job to try to be a better guitar player, because otherwise our recordings would never work. He then said that I should continue writing on my own and just give him a call when I was ready for the bass parts, because he wanted to dedicate his time for his other band MirrorMind.

Alex was condescending, he was a snob, he acted like he knew everything. He wasn’t arrogant; he was just a fucking snob. Everything had to be overly technical and progressive and he would look down on my style of playing, my compositions, my recording methods. But I was the only one actually doing anything. He hadn’t ever even been in a studio or recorded any of his music before meeting me. he had no idea what he was talking about. I gave him a copy of the extremely limited edition Vision Lunar CD, and asked him to listen to it and see if he thought we could re-use any of the riffs in our new band. All he had to say was “I fell on my ass bored by it”. He also said that the Souffearnce CD bored him but that he gave it to his sister for her to listen to while studying.

I really enjoyed writing with Alex because I would come up with a shit load of riffs that I liked, and he would pick out the good ones and help me tweak them into something good, and we’d integrate it together in the songs. It was really the best song-writing pair I had ever had.

 

So I actually stopped working on Lanterns Awake altogether for two months. Once again, I thought it was all over. It didn’t help that William Paulhus had ruined a great promotional opportunity for my band Vision Eternel at around the same time and tried to blacklist Abridged Pause Recordings from local promoters.

In December 2010 I started Murder On Redpath, but at first we were only playing cover songs, so I wasn’t composing music; just having fun playing covers.

In January I had an idea. I was going to find myself a drummer and get Alex back in the band. I told him about the idea and he said if I could get a drummer, he’d be in. [guitar was recorded in December but I hadn’t been able to mix it, so on Jan 9th I reached out to Garry] So on January 9th I recorded as best I could a demo of the first song, but I couldn’t get it to sound good enough for anyone to get the proper impression of it. I asked Garry Brents if there was anything he could do because I needed desperate help. [He sent me back a zip with 4 files: Left Guitar, Right Guitar, Verb Guitar and a reference file of his own mix. I would have been able to mix it myself from those files, and I can’t remember if I did. I think that I may actually have, in fact I vaguely recall adding more reverb to the reverb file and then making my own mix out of that. But he had added good distortion on the left and right guitars].

 

Alex 1/9/11, 9:17 PM Facebook
hey garry. ive got a weird project to suggest to you. ive got this post-metal band, and ive recorded a demo of a song, but i cant seem to mix or produce or whatever that would be called, the guitar tracks together, or get a reasonable sound that i like for this particular recording. i know youve done some production work with other bands before, and was wondering if i could send over to you the tracks for you to try to mix/produce/whatever this would be called to get a good post-metal sound?
alex

Garry: 1/10/11, 2:44 AM Facebook
Hey man, yeah I’d definitely give it a try. Do you have the DI tracks of the guitars/bass? That would really help me, so I could reamp them with different amps for versatility.

Alex: 1/10/11, 10:32 AM Facebook
im not sure what you mean by DI track? is it a track for Guitar Rigg? I have recorded all the guitar tracks with Adobe Soundbooth. the bassist will record his stuff over my guitar tracks, but i just cant get this to work at all. this is a post-blackened sludge project type of thing, so i still want it dirty, but i dont want it sounding like Vision Lunar (my old project). id like this to have some kick in it…
so i have all the wav files, and im using Adobe Soundbooth. is there a specific file that i have to export for you to have all the wavs and diff tracks lined up properly and in each track when you open it in a program? i havent done this exchange before so i hope i dont sound like a fuckin noob haha
would this be an OMF file that you need?

Garry: 1/10/11, 11:40 PM Facebook
The DI’s are the guitar/bass files that are recorded direct in, clean, with no effects or amp emulation on them. I don’t know if you record your guitars direct-in or if you mic’d an amp (although, it is a good thing to do both if available). If I have the DI’s, I can process them with different amps as if you were here plugging your guitar into them, so to speak. If you didn’t record them DI, that’s okay. I can do my best to mix the guitars.
An OMF file isn’t supported by what I’m using, unfortunately. The workaround is by rendering all of your files to WAV starting from 0:00 (or whatever the beginning number mark is in your project file) up until the end of the song. Do this to every track and put them into a zip folder if possible. I know it’s a endearing process, but that is currently the only way.

Alex: 1/11/11, 11:03 AM Facebook
when i record with distortion, i usually do it with my pedal kus i cant get a sound i like with those amps. but i also dont like my pedal on sound because it sounds like awful black metal.
this is a post-blackened sludge project, and i like the BM influences in there but not necessarily the sound.
a few other tracks were done with reverb, also with pedal, but not enough and not even with a sound im enjoying, since it doesnt blend with the rest.
ive taken a screen shot of the song tracks in soundbooth so you can see what it looks like. the thing is that each of those are diff guitar parts over that time line, so im thinking that if i make each track its own long wav, ud have to cut it back up again to mix each individual parts. i hope you get what im saying.
otherwise i can do each separate track in a separate long file, but ud have like 11 tracks. let me know what you want me to do.

Alex 1/11/11, 5:24 PM Facebook
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2YYFDT91

Garry: 1/12/11, 6:59 AM Facebook
Thanks!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NHNRD1M0
in this zip includes Guitar Left, Guitar Right, and Verb Guitar ready to insert in your project — as well as a reference mix file of the guitars, but that’s why I gave you the separate files in case you wanted to mess with the levels of the guitars yourself.
Also, let me know if this is the kind of sound you were looking for. Obviously the riffs will sound thicker and fuller whenever you have the bass mixed in, too.

Alex: 1/12/11, 11:30 AM Facebook
this sounds great dude! and you did this super fast! although my recording is sloppy, this sounds great!!!
there are a couple things though, perhaps you can fix. first, the right track features some of the reverb at the 3rd time around (2:15-2:50). i was wondering if you could put that on the reverb track as well, and just double the original guitar for that part. i think i will re-record the reverb tracks because they arent very good. or perhaps even leave them out til the end to see if they are really needed.
also, at 4:00 there is an odd blank space in the right track. looking at my files i sent you, it doesnt seem to come from my side.
but other than that, it sounds really great and full! did you use guitar rigg for this? ive tried using it but just cant get a sound that i like! maybe i need more messing around..
what did you think of the song itself?

Garry: 1/12/11, 7:26 PM Facebook
[file removed]

Garry: 1/13/11, 5:25 AM Facebook
Here you go: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZZ8FS46U

Alex: 1/13/11, 11:53 AM Facebook
thanks garry! its great! so far we only have two songs written, so would you be okay to fix up the second song when its finished? so far its only the bassist and i and if the other song sounds as good as this, well have something good to send to find a drummer and second guitarist. the other song is much more progressive than this one, so it gives a pretty good aspect of what the band wants to do.

Garry: 1/13/11, 2:19 PM Facebook
sweet! Yeah I’m interested in doing the second song as well. I hope you guys get to find other members soon! It sounds very promising.

On January 12th he returned the song to me in full splendor and it sounded amazing! And it was right on time for my promotional idea. I added the song on Soundcloud, and on my birthday, January 15th, I sent messages to everyone on my Facebook that lived in Montreal, asking if they knew of any drummers and to show them my song or get me in contact with them. I did it on my birthday because Facebook doesn’t limit your activity on that day, knowing you will be in contact with a lot of people, so I was able to message hundreds of people. A few people gave me names of drummers, but nothing happened. I wasn’t able to set up a single meeting.

In a last hope I posted an add on Kijiji, again looking for members. This time a western Canadian responded to me, who was now living in Montreal. Patrick McDowall contacted me on January 23rd 2011 and on the 29th he came over my apartment to jam. He also really liked the music and was impressed with the sound that I was going for. He offered me to go over his place to demo the songs so we could do some drum programming over it and get an idea. He also had a home studio, and on February 3rd I went to his place to record the songs. After doing a few takes, and figuring out that the tempo was changing multiple times during the songs, we finally got to record both songs, with noted tempos. He said he would work on them and get back to me shortly. However a week later a whole lot of excuses came my way, including school exams, girlfriend problems, housing issues, and finally that my music wasn’t technical enough to his taste, yet that he wasn’t able to add a drum track to a song that changed tempo that often. That was the last straw, and I was sick of everyone always telling they loved what I was doing, only to back out at the last minute when they weren’t able to work with it. I couldn’t understand, and gave up completely.

the recording session with Pat were shit. he kept insisting on having the exact tempo for every part of the song, and I wasn’t used to that. he was an arrogant asshole. he was a total hipster. he wanted to play technical death metal because he thought it was trendy, then switched to black metal when that genre became more trendy with hipsters. he was also really into the overly compressed production. yet he couldn’t comprehend how my songs had different tempos from one section to the other. It wasn’t important to me and I didn’t even pay attention to tempo changes

Complete Lanterns Awake Recordings

 

 

 

 

 

Ivan Byrne Communications
[missing some of my sent emails due to Thunderbird]

Ivan: Thu, Jul 8, 2010, 3:08 PM Email
Hey Alex,
I’ve been looking to get a post-rock band going for a while – not necessarily restricted to post rock, and not without it’s heavy side. I listen to bands like
Tool
Pelican
Russian Circles
God is an Astronaut
Agalloch
Anata
SunnO)))
Opeth
Pink Floyd
Earth
Gentle Giant
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
maudlin of the Well
Meshuggah
This Will Destroy You
Ozric Tentacles
Sigur Ros
as well as some classical, jazz, klezmer, psytrance… I like diversity.
Anyways, lists are always horrible ways to test compatibility. Whereabouts do you live? We could meet up and have a chat if you’re interested.
I should probably point out that I play guitar, by the way 😛
It’s warm, I have to dash, but do get back to me!
Later,
Ivan

Me: Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:13 PM Email
hey ivan! i do listen to some of the bands listen on your list, and most of the bands are pretty good! i should of added agalloch myself… so good! and ulver!
i live in ahuntsic. im a 7 minute walk from metro henri bourassa and i have good enough material to jam here if youre interested. would you be up for jamming sometime this weekend?
alex

Ivan: Jul 9, 2010, 7:57 PM Email
Hey Alex,
Ulver are great! I shall be free tomorrow if you’d like to jam then – I have a small amp I can haul along on the metro, as well as my guitar. I’m currently without a phone though, which could make communication a little tricky, but if you’re free I could call by at a designated time. I was thinking afternoon, if that’s good for you. If so, pop me your address and a time, and I’ll mail you back ASAP!
Ivan

Me: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:15 AM Email
hey dude! this afternoon wouldnt be good because my sister is here for the day… shes leaving tomorrow morning though so tomorrow afternoon could work. heres my number, call me to plan something set. 514-296-7037
btw, the post-metal stuff im jamming is in AADGBE, you should try it if you havent yet, it sounds pretty great! you get great lows and you keep the highs.
alex

Ivan: 7/10/2010 2:08 PM Email
Hey dude,
That’s cool, I can call you tonight, and we can figure something out. Also, I shall retune!
The lowest I’ve ever actually tuned is F standard – on a baritone guitar – so that I could play along with some Meshuggah tracks. It’s CRUSHINGLY low, though you need a good amp to maintain clarity….mine wasn’t good enough, haha. If I had the baritone at the moment, I could bring it, but I do not.
Anyways, I shall tune down to AADGBE, and I shall talk to you soon!
Ivan

Me: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:17 PM Email
alright so when are we jamming?

Ivan: Jul 15, 2010, 2:39 PM Email
Hey dude,
Apologies for the delay, my cocking internet went AWOL for a few days, but I’ve got it back up and running now 🙂
I’m good to jam anyday, except this Sunday, so if you’re free tomorrow or Saturday, give me a time and I’ll swing by! Do you have a spare amplifier, by the way, or should I bring one with me?
Apologies again!
Ivan

Me: Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM Email
hey dude, im free to jam today, and tomorrow. up to you. ive got a 2nd amp right here, but being a bass amp it has no distortion. so bring your own distortion pedal and reverb if you use one, as well as your guitar and cables.
my number is 514-296-7037.
just call me before you come, because this apartement is weird and the entrance door is always locked so you cant come in to buzz my number haha.
my address is 1310 henri bourassa east.

Ivan: Jul 15, 2010, 4:41 PM Email
Awesome. Well I’m heading to see American: The Bill Hicks Story tonight, so that’s out, but I’ll give you a shout tomorrow. I have no phone of my own at the moment, so expect a call from a payphone! 😛
Later,
Ivan

Me: Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM Email
hey dude! ive been working on that song you composed.. ive got the additional riff incorporated, the one that was just too much for the first song i wrote. i made a change to chorus type thing you had which were bar codes 4 then 5. i made them 3 then 4, just so they would be the same notes as the riff. it takes a bit to get used to but in teh end you dont really notice that big of a change… ill show you when we jam, and i may have more ideas thrown in there too.
find ideas on your end as well, so that we can compare our versions when we jam, and we can mix and match them.

Ivan: Jul 19, 2010, 1:26 PM Email
Hey hey,
I too was working on the song! I have a few other riffs that I like, though overall it could be more atmospheric, so perhaps we can come up with a few new parts. I made a guitar pro file of the riffs I have so far; you can listen and see what you think. It does need something more….I’ll also try changing the chords to 3 and 4, though I like the change from the 1 to the 4.
How went your weekend anyways? I shall be round during the week to hang out and jam – and hopefully I’ll have more ideas too by then 😛
Anyways, I’ve attached a .gp file and a .midi file, you should be able to listen to one of them and see what you think of the riffs. I tried to put drums to them….kind of worked, haha.
P.S. Illuminatum isn’t actually an idea for a name; I had no idea what to call it, and the Illuminatus! Trilogy is at the end of my row of books….. 😛

Me: Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM Email
hey ivan, are you still interested in continuing our post-metal project? im eager to jam it up soon!

Ivan: Aug 3, 2010, 4:32 PM Email
Hey dude,
Sorry I haven’t been in touch; I have a friend of mine visiting from Greece, so I’m a little tied up at the moment! I’m around if you want to hang out some day, but I’ll have to wait till next week for jamming. Also, someone in my neighbourhood is cooking something which smells DELICIOUSLY Chinesey.

Me: Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:14 AM Email
haha dude. did you venture out to find what that food was?
btw, my album was released! youre gonna love it!
and ya next week we really have to jam! ive got a lot of ideas and we bounce them off in a great way. im sure well have 4 songs by the end of our next jam!

Ivan: Aug 7, 2010, 4:23 PM Email
We damn well better 😛
And that’s awesome; I must see, touch and hear the final product! You’re free every day next week?

[Potentially a bunch of unanswered emails that I sent out around then]

Me: 9/1/10, 10:19 PM Facebook
yo dude, i got a bassist in, he looks REALLY potential and with a 6 string bass!!! lets jam really soon! i dont wanna lose this guy!
so call me: 514-383-1621
alex

AfterDawn Forums
https://forums.afterdawn.com/threads/montreal-band-needs-post-metal-bassist.727549/
August 13 2010 10:56 PM
Montreal – Band needs post-metal bassist
get in touch with me: alex@abridgedpause.com

Alex Luca Communications
[missing some of my sent emails due to Thunderbird]

Luca: Wed, Sep 1, 2010, 10:09 PM Email
Bassist for post-metal band
Hey Alex!
I was actually replying concerning the post-metal band.
Are you part of the band in question, or part of the label?
One way or another, I’m quite curious as to how this band sounds.
-Alex

Me: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:13:57 Email
hey alex! what a great name haha
im one of teh 2 guitarists in the post-metal band. i have been writing stuff for it for a while, and recently was joined by a great other guitarist, with whom we are ellaborating my songs and creating new ones. we play in standard tunning with just the low E tuned down to A. so AADGBe. its a realllly fun tunning and it sounds badass!
this is a new band, so we dont have a drummer yet, but adding a bassist would be a great way to get things up a level. what part of montreal do you live in? i live in ahuntsic (metro henri-bourassa) and the other guitarist lives downtown. we usually jam at my place, since i have concrete foundations and never get a complain from the neighbors!
alex

Luca: Sep 1, 2010, 10:24 PM Email
Salut! Avec un nom comme Alex Julien, je vais prendre pour acquis que le français est ta langue maternelle.
Ce tuning a l’air vraiment intense. J’ai une 7 cordes, donc le A grave est bien à ma portée ^^
J’habite dans St-Léonard, mais j’ai accès à une voiture, donc ça devrait bien se faire. Maintenant je suis surtout en train de magasiner les différents groupes, voir les sonorités qui me branchent, etc.
Est-ce que t’as des échantillons sonores?

Me: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:25:33 Email
jai vue suer facebook que tes ami avec mon cousin, Yannick Beaudoin, cote maternelle..
par contre on a rien enregistrer encore, mais si ca te tante de passer jammer cette semaine tu pourais avoir une idee assez vite!

Luca: Sep 1, 2010, 10:32 PM Email
Haha, ben voyons! C’est cool.
Niveau jam, en fin de semaine je pars au chalet de ma blonde, faque ça adonne mal. J’ai congé vendredi dans la journée, mais sinon, faudra attendre la semaine prochaine.
Est-ce que ça fait longtemps que vous jammez ensemble?

Me: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:34:33 Email
on a commencer ca fait un mois, il vient de lirlande, donc cest des influence differente mais on cennecter super bien! juste la premiere journee on a travailler 2 de mes chansons et une nouvelle… donc on avance vite.
moi jsuis down pour vendredi!
vers quelle heure que tu voudrais faire ca?
mon tel de maison: 514-383-1621
alex

Luca: Sep 1, 2010, 10:38 PM Email
Question vite vite: T’habites seul, ou bien avec des colocs/parents? Parce que je vais pas appeler chez vous si ya du monde qui dort ^^
Sinon, moi, vendredi ça serait vraiment dans la journée: Il faudrait que je parte de chez vous vers 2h30 max.

Me: [Missing Email reply]

Me: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:36:37 Email
on jam toujours se matin?

Luca: [Missing reply, possibly via phone]

Luca: Sep 4, 2010, 8:15 PM Email
Hey!!
L’adresse email de mon boss: max@comptant.com
ciao!

Me: 9/6/10, 8:08 PM Facebook
hey jai une interview avec ton boss demain matin sur mont royal!
et puis pour la 3ieme chanson, qui est pas finit, avec le riff que tu mavais suggerer, jai ajouter dekoi de fucking bon! jai hate de te montrer ca!

Luca: 9/6/10, 9:52 PM Facebook
Hey Alex!
Je viens tout juste de rentrer du chalet.
C’est très cool que tu rencontres mon boss demain matin. Tu pourras lui dire que t’es prêt à boucher les gros trous béants dans nos horaires
Pour la pratique, comme je te l’ai dit, mardi matin c’est trop flush, mais dès la semaine prochaine on pourrait faire ça de façon régulière. Moi mercredi en avant-midi je suis dispo par contre, pour une 3 heures, de comme 10h à 13h, environ. Est-ce que ça serait le genre de trucs qui te branche?
Et j,ai trouvé un truc de guitare acoustique vraiment très cool qu’on pourrait adapter, j’ai hâte de voir!

Me: 9/6/10, 9:58 PM Facebook
parfait pour mercredi!
cest quoi ton num en passant! jai pas lafficheur sur le tel de ma chambre haha

Luca: 9/6/10, 10:00 PM Facebook
514-321-8257 (pas de cell régulier)
Mais j’habite chez mes parents encore, donc, éviter les appels à minuit ^^
J’écoute ton album d’ailleurs, c’est très agréable. [Soufferance]

Me: 9/6/10, 10:02 PM Facebook
cest juste pour te contacter si ya dekoi, mais je comprend…
quel album btw? soufferance?

Luca: 9/6/10, 10:41 PM Facebook
Travels into several remote nations of the mind

Me: 9/6/10, 10:45 PM Facebook
as tu deja vue Dune? jaimerais vraiiiiment faire le theme en version post-metal progressif..

Luca: 9/6/10, 10:52 PM Facebook
Très prog, indeed ^^
J’ai jamais vu Dune, mais j’ai lu les bouquins. Très chouette comme série.

Luca: Tue, Sep 7, 2010, 1:54 PM Email
Hey Alex!
Un autre groupe que tu pourrais regarder qui, selon moi, a certains éléments communs avec ce que tu composes: Intronaut. C’est… très prog ^^
-Alex

Me: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:56:08 Email
haha ok, javais deja entendu deux mais jai jamais eu loportunite des checker. quel album?

Luca: Tue, Sep 7, 2010, 2:50 PM Email
Prehistoricisms et Void
Prehistoricisms est bon, mais Void se rapproche davantage de ton son.

Me: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:40:29 Email
jai enregistré les 3 demos. cest rough, mais si tu penses que ca peut aider a recruté un drummer…
http://www.mediafire.com/?bsno37s4epwtfqb

Luca: Sep 9, 2010, 12:13 AM
Cool. Ça sonne mieux que ce à quoi je m,attendais 🙂
Je l’ai fait écouter au 1er drummeur sur ma liste. Il adore ça, mais est pas sûr d’être assez bon. Comme de fait, il serait beaucoup plus “ambiant” que technique. Il m’a dit qu’il allait checker ça, donc je devrais pouvoir te revenir là-dessus sous peu.
Aussi, ça a été comment ton entrevue?

Me: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:31:30 Email
ok bon ben jespere qu’un d’eux va etre interesser… jai essayer de faire dekoi de pas trop mauvais comem son mais vite fait.. haha
pour la job, je retourne voir le centre chef demain a 9:30….
esque tu jam avec ton autre groupe demain?

Luca: 09/09/2010 9:35 PM Email
Ouais j’ai un jam avec eux demain.
Jte contacte dès que j’ai une dispo de confirmée, d,ici le 13 ça sera rock and roll.

Me: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:40 Email
ok ca marche! et si tu trouve un drummer et tu pense que ca pourrais etre cool de jammer avec des bientot, je suis down de jammer avec drums chez nous!

Luca: Sep 10, 2010, 11:09 PM Email
Hey! Dimanche en PM veux tu jammer? Je sais pas si j’aurai mon ampli, mais on pourrait jammer jusqu’à relativement tard si tu veux, je finis la job à 17h.

Me: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:12:40 Email
moi aussi je finit de travailler a 17h 😛 mais ils mont mit a mt royal, pour pas que je sois distrai pas mon ami qui est a beaubien haha. si tu veux on se rejouint apres la job pour allez chercher ton amplis…
on peu se rejoindre sois a ta location ou bien a ton arret dautobus.
esque tu penses que je vais vraiment avoir terminer a 17h ou bien ils vont me garder quelques minutes de plus vue que cest ma premiere journee?

Luca: Sep 10, 2010, 11:48 PM Email
Cool, bienvenue dans la confrérie des prêteurs sur gage.
Dimanche j’ai POTENTIELLEMENT mon char, ça te prends combien de temps aller chez vous à partir de la job?

Me: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:37:50 Email
ca me prend 40 mins. mas ca me prend 10 min me rendre a beaubien de mt royale

Luca: Sat, Sep 11, 2010, 12:13 AM Email
Also, j’ai regardé un peu pour des 7 cordes, puis tu devrais checker les “Agile guitars”. Apparemment que t’en as pour ton argent bien plus qu’avec Schecter.
http://www.rondomusic.com/product3648.html
par exemple, mais yen a aussi sur ebay.
bref, un investissement à regarder éventuellement!

Luca: Sep 11, 2010, 12:48 AM Email
Ok, ben jvais te confirmer ça demain soir, parce que je sais pas si j,aurai mon auto ou pas. C’est ça qui va déterminer comment on s’y prend.
Des nouvelles de l’irlandais?

Me: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:50:21 Email
zero nouvelles.. il repond mme pas a mes emails.. donc fuck le… par contre je prefere attendre un peu avant de recruter un autre guitariste.. premierment traviller les chansons un peu et attendre la possibiliter dacheter une 7 corde…
as tu ecouter les demos au complet? que penses tu du developement de 3?

Luca: Sep 11, 2010, 1:01 AM Email
Fuck le Indeed.
La 3 sonne chouette, je m’assoirais pour modifier certains détails, mais overall elle a un fell très cool. Reste que ma préférée c’est la 1re, elle est un peu plus prog, et définitivement plus majestueuse. La 2, les 45 premières secondes je les trouve pas top awesome, mais le riff qui vient juste après est par-fait, le riff vers 1:35 je changerais peut être la progression un peu pour lui donner un feel encore plus énorme. La transition pour le riff après mérite peut être d’être plus graduelle. Le riff à 2:30 est super, mais il tombe vraiment sec. Mais ça, ce sont mes opinions.
Also, comme nom de groupe, un drummer intéressé mais qui a ptete pas le skill nécessaire a suggéré “Gravity Well”. je pense qu’un nom “astronomique” comme ça, c’ets vraiment un bon point de départ. Ça aurait plus de gueule que Pélican en tout cas 🙂
Jvais attendre un peu avant de chercher plein de drummer, histoire qu’on fignole le son.

Me: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:03:32 Email
jsuis down pour faire plein de mods avec les chansons pour les rendre meilleure.
par contre jaime pas le nom suggere haha. on trouvera dekoi quand le temps viendra..mais je suis difficille la dessu….

Luca: Sep 11, 2010, 1:12 AM Email
Jsuis pas pressé pour le nom, mais t’as quoi contre Gravity Well? C’est lourd que le st-ciboire ce truc ^^

Me: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:13:10 Email
je le trouve bof en maudit haha.

Luca: Sep 11, 2010, 1:17 AM Email
Fair Enough ^^
Le problème, c’est que si tu veux un nom simple, style animal mythologique, jpeux te garantir qu’ils sont pas mal tous pris. Je préfère prendre un symbole dans une mythologie quelconque, voire une légende. De quoi en lien avec les thèmes développés sinon.
Sinon, tu voulais Orca? Moi je suggère MEGALODON ;p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon
Ça, c’est lourd comme animal marin 🙂

Luca: Mon, Sep 13, 2010, 6:31 PM Email
je viens de parler à Max, tu viens d’avoir ma job. Toi qui voulais partir de Mont-Royal ^^
Là je suis shippé à Saint-Hubert, mais apparemment que finalement mon horaire convient pas trop. On verra ce que ça donne, mais ça ressemble à un cas de “nos situations sont interchangées”.

Me: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:02:46 Email
Demos de 16 Septembre.
1&2
[insert link]

Luca: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 10:38 PM Email
Ouais, la 2 est vraiment trop soudaine, je pense que ya des riffs qui pourraient être plus smooth, mais c’est cool, il y a déjà pas mal de matériel.

Me: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:44:20 Email
veux tu jammer demain?

Luca: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 10:45 PM Email
Nan, demain j’ai de l’école, ça adonne 0. On verra avec ton horaire de la semaine prochaine!

Me: 9/17/10, 3:57 PM Facebook
hey dude tu mappelleras si tas le temps aujourdhui avant daller dans le nord!

Me: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:41:23 Email
hey dude. mes disponibilitees on pas plus a max ou le bureau chef, donc a date je suis plus scheduler a travailler jusqua se quils me trouve des spots de remplacement… je devrais discutter de ca avec eux vendredi. donc mes spot pour jammer sont pas mal ouvert! cest quand que tes disponible?
et as tu checker la compil de lunar? si tu me dit les morceaux que tas aimer je vais pouvoir les redechiffrer (ca fait plusieurs annees que je les ai pas jouer alors jen ai oublier une coupe haha) et on va pouvoir incorporer ca au prochain jam!
alex

Luca: Sep 22, 2010, 10:55 AM Email
Salut Alex
Ouais j’ai justement parlé à Max. Moi dans le fond je vais continuer à faire mon shift normal, pis je vais t’avouer que ça m’arrange.
J’ai écouté al compilation de Lunar, puis sincèrement je suis aps tombé sur le cul. Ya des ambiances intéressantes, mais j’ai accroché sur aucun riff.
Pour ce qui ets des jam, présentement je suis pas mal booké, et je sais pas si je vais être capable de jouer avec 2 groupes en même temps. Jvais essayer d’arranger mon horaire, mais pour le moment ya trop de friction.

Me: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:46:55 Email
tes disponibilitees limitees aurait pas avoir avec le fait que je travail pu pour comptant?
parske messemble que la semaine passe on avait pas mal de potentiel et que la compo avait lair de ton gout autant que le mient… jtrouverais juste ca vriament dommage que se sois a cause de ca…

Luca: Sep 22, 2010, 12:11 PM Email
Non, c’est surtout rapport avec le fait que j’ai un autre groupe avec lequel j’ai suffisemment de difficulté à me coordoner. Que j’ai mes intras qui arrivent dans els prochaines semaines.
Pis en quelque part, si je te dis que j’ai un horaire vraiment bloqué, c’ets qu’il est vraiment bloqué. C’est pas le 8 heures par semaine que je fais au comptant qui fait une différence.

Me: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:04:33 Email
as tu du temps pour jammer cette semaine? jai quelques nouvelles idees!

Luca: Oct 6, 2010, 7:13 PM Email
Cette semaine ça va être trop clutch,, semaine prochaine je vais peut être avoir des trous. Note que je suis en mi-session, alors les examens me pleuvent dessus.

Me: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:01:46 Email
Nouvelle idee de Prog 2.
ok jviens denregistrer une idee que jai eu pour Prog 2. Le debut est le meme, cest a 0:45 que ca va changer. la partie plus smooth je lai essayer sur 4 et 0 a la place de 0 et 5. les égus je les joues un demi ton plus haut aussi, ca donne un effect plus “beau” je trouve. moin black, plus majestueux.
la 2ieme idee est juste apres ce riff changer, avant on allait direct dans le riff principale de loriginal de la 2, le moment speed (qui nest pas dans mon demo juste parske on pourait le replacer plus loin). jai trouver un nouveau riff a la place, quon pourrait facilement allonger et en plus cest baser sur les meme note que le debut de la chanson, et retourner dans le riff plus smooth.
en tk tu me diras se que tu penses de lidee!
alex

Luca: Fri, Oct 8, 2010, 2:32 PM Email
Très cool, j’aime le feel.
En passant, Kylesa c’est pas mal chouette, mais ce que tu composes ça a plus de thrash dedans.
Moi j’ai eu une idée d’ailleurs: 2 tracks de basse. Une qui fait des mini leads, l’autre qui fait la job de basse. Les leads peuvent e^tre de la guit aussi, mais j,ai fait des leads sur les tracks et ça rentre.

Me: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:34:18 Email
peux tu menvoilelr des demos de ton idee? pas de refference a se quon fait, mais un groupe Shrum, side project de Acide Bath qui navais pas de guitar et juste 2 bass. ils ont juste fait un demo, mais yer tres tres bon!

Luca: Oct 8, 2010, 2:46 PM Email
J’ai aps de quoi m’enregistrer. Faudrait sérieusement que je m’achète une interface audio.

Me: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:47:54 Email
fait juset ammener ton laptop next time we jam, les 2 programmes que jutilises sont cracker. jpeux te metre Sonar si tu veux.
demain ca se peux que je jammer avec un guitariste. jte laisse savoir comment ca cest passer. sinon esque phil progresse tjrs?

Luca: Oct 8, 2010, 2:51 PM Email
je pense que Phil a juste abandonné. Ce qui ets très dommage d’ailleurs. La batterie ctait aps son instrument.
J’ai cubase, donc pas besoin de sonar. J’ai superior drummer, et un osti de paquets de patchs pour keyboards. On est grayés

Me: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:45:52 Email
malheureusement on a pas la chance de jammer se soir, car jai plein didee, et come tu le sais, si tu les aimes pas, on les garde pas… mais bon, jai realiser qu une des partie dans le nouveau riff de la 2, etait tres proche dun riff que javais composer pour la 3…. et vue que la 3 va finir comme la 2 original, bah pk pas reutiliser le morceau tout de suite. alors cest se que jai essayer, je trouve que ca sonne encore plus prog quavant.. laisse moi savoir ske tu pense. jaimerais trouver un moyen dallonger la partie sans la faire trop repetitive… car je trouve quon retombe trop vite dans le meme riff smooth.
et aussi, jai trouver un vieux riff a incorporer dans la premiere, mais jte jammerais ca en personne, parske cest le build up qui compte haha.

Luca: Oct 9, 2010, 12:26 AM Email
Demain tu vois le guitariste à quelle heure?
Parce que je serais ptete capable de venir après la job, dépendemment de si j,arrive a`finir ems travaux en travaillant ;p

Me: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:27:43 Email
il est supposer mappeler a pres ca job (4h), mais il ma dit que sa se pourrais quon jam juste apres quil ai souper.. il habite a environ 10min de marche chez nous.. juste a coter du metro henri bourassa…
tu serait dipot de quelle heure a quelle heure, environ? tu veux venir avec moi chez lui ou jammer enssemble separement?

Luca: 09/10/2010 12:37 AM Email
K. Ben écoute, à ce moment là jvais plutôt souper ave cma blonde si jamais j’arrive à me libérer, ça va t’éliminer une source d’incertitude. Pis aussi, ça fera moins broche à foin que si ya moi en plus comme variable aléatoire avec le gutiariste.
par contre, dimanche en début de journée on pourrait se gosser de quoi. jte reviens là-dessus,

Me: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:39:56 Email
alright cool. passe du temps avec ta ducliné demain soir, pis on check ca pour dimanche 😛 au pire si ca se passe bien demain avec lautre, on peut essayer a 3 pour dimanche, si vous etes tout les 2 libres.

Luca: Oct 9, 2010, 12:41 AM Email
Avec tes idées d’essayage à 3, ma finir par te trouver ben déviant ;p

Me: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:41:50 Email
haha, bah jai pas la cahnce avec ma blonde, faut ben que je sorte sa ailleur 😉

Luca: Oct 9, 2010, 11:30 PM Email
Pis, ça a été comment avec ce guitariste?

Me: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 23:42:46 Email
cetait ok. il est interesser pas se que je fais. mais le premier jam a ete pas mal juste lui montrer des parties des tounnes. il vient du style plus post-hardcore, donc je sais pas se que ca va donner… ca serait le genre a metre des lead plus commercial par dessu les coter sludge.. mais il a un studio chez lui, et ca pourrait etre tres pratique..
on a enregistrer les tounes chez lui pour quil puisse pratiquer cette semaine, pi on va jammer jeudi ou vendredi.. jvais voir dans se temps la avec le proces quil a fait et comment on connecte.
esquon jam tjrs possiblement (a 2) demain?

Luca: Oct 9, 2010, 11:46 PM Email
Fuck ouais. On peut se faire un petit jam de 3-4 heures, j’aimerais ça. Par contre, faudrait que ça se donne de genre 10-13, 10-14 comme heures. Si tu te sens ben willing je peux arriver vers 9h30 même. Est-ce que tu te sens d’attaque? ^^

Me: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 23:49:08 Email
moi jsuis down dude. appel moi demain matin avant de partir de chez vous pour me reveiller! appel plus qune fois si y faut, mais reveil moi haha. moi jsuis down pour un jam creatif!

Luca: Oct 9, 2010, 11:57 PM Email
Parfait parfait.
À demain!

Luca: Thu, Oct 14, 2010, 1:24 AM Email
Good News
Je me suis pogné une interface audio, une Lexicon u22.. On pourra maintenant enregistrer nos riffs avec plus de clarté!

Me: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:24:46 Email
haha ok cool! when? to be honest, i feel like our material is less supperior now that i listen to djent 🙁 please reasure me haha.

Luca: Thu, Oct 14, 2010, 1:27 AM Email
The secret is in the 7 strings ;p
je niaise, Cloudkicker enregistre sur une guitare en Drop B. Une 6 cordes. Mais si tu veux commencer à penser Djent, tu m’ouvres un porte que tu devrais pas ;p
Parce que le Djent, c’est pas techniquement compliqué, mais c,est très intello comme mouvement. Si tu veux commencer à en intégrer, je suis absolu-fucking down.

Me: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:28:38 Email
dude je suis fucking down too. quesquon fait avec les 2 progs? on les record et garde ca comme first demo? ou bien on les evolue a quelque chose dautre?

Luca: Thu, Oct 14, 2010, 1:35 AM Email
On le sgarde. Veux veux pas, t’as un côté black-sludge qui av rester cohérent. Mais le Djent, c’est carrément groovy, avec une mentalité très orientée sur le drum. Ça nécessite de la planification, faudrait se mettre au guitar pro. Mais si tu veux intégrer du Djent, qui ets selon moi la meilleure chose depuis el pain tranché, on peut regarder les riffs des 2 prog, puis ajouter des bouts Djent. Oublie aps que le Djent, c,est du gossage rythmique avec une track de leads subtils en arrière. Exemple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk01HJmysPo à 1:18.
Si tu veux faire ça, on va s’asseoir pendant nos jams, regarder les rythmes, pis mettre sur pied des parties comme ça. Avec mon interface audio, ce sera du gâteau ;p

Me: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:41:54 Email
bah je pense que ya des bout ou on pourrais ajouter du coter djent. ca serait vraiment cool, et ca donnerais quelque chose de different de tout se quil a en se moment… mais penses tu vriament que ca va fitter avec le coter plus sludge/black? genre jai jouer du hardcore gendant qulques annees, mais le djent cest tres compresser… et va pt falloir changer le tunning… mais cest vrais que cest de la preplanification sur le drum…
faudrais vraiment checker ca en jam… mais jadore vraiment le style. par contre les coter post-rock, ca changerais laspect complet de lidee que jai la.. sauf si on fait des chansons de 16 mins haha

Luca: Oct 14, 2010, 1:45 AM Email
Je pense qu’on ets partis pour faire de quoi de prog de toute façon, alors pourquoi ne pas incorporer du Djent rendu là. Pis avec les logiciels d’émulation d’amplis que je me pogne tu pourras pogner le tone que tu veyx, pa sjuste ta crappy metal zone.
Juste te dire, jvais avoir, en plsu de Cubase pour recorder: Amplitube, Guitar Rig et Revalver MkIII. On va pouvoir faire ce qu’on veut.
Scuse pour les fautes de français, la soirée a été longue et pas mal pleine d’excès. Jpense que je vais aller me coucher.

Me: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:51:27 Email
yo! jvien de trouver comment finir la 1!!!! jai hate de te montrer ca! en passant, lautre guitarist etais vraiment a chier.. apres avoir “practiquer les 2 chansons toute la semaine” yetais pas capable de suivre le tempo, et de faire les riff que javais… mais bon, on continue a composer!!!!
laisse moi savoir quand ta une ouverture! et jte ferais a dinner cette fois si 😛

Luca: Oct 19, 2010, 12:02 AM Email
cool, ben écoute, moi cette semaine je sais pas trop quand, mais la semaine prochaine je vais être pas mal plus dispo. Sinon cette semaine on pourrait se prendre une soirée, je sais aps si demain soir tu te sentirais frais et dispo.
ALSO
je vais em commander des cordes. Si tu veux t’acheter un paquet de cordes pour ta jackson, c’ets le temps ou jamais. Tu veux embarquer?

Me: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:19:49 Email
demain soir? oui!
la semaine prochaine? oui!
haha

Luca: Oct 19, 2010, 6:24 PM Email
Salut!
Je sais qu,on avais prévu jammer, mais ça marchera pas ce soir. J’ai aucune drive pour le moment, alors ça serait inutile.
-Alex

Me: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:25:15 Email
bah si je te motive avec un spaghetti maison 😛
mais sinon cest pas grave, fais moi signe quand tas un spot! jpense que le prochain jam on va pouvoir conclure la 1 et 2 et possiblement se metre a la 3 🙂

Luca: Oct 19, 2010, 6:29 PM Email
God damn! Spag maison tu dis?
J’ai ptete faim dans le fond ;p
Donne-moi 20 minutes-30 minutes pis je suis là.
Non j’avais définitivement faim, juste penser à bouffer ça me revigore.

Me: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:30:35 Email
haha bah passe souper, au pire si tu feel pas motiver pour composer tu peux au moin me dire sque tu penses de mes nouvelles idees pour la 1.

Luca: Oct 19, 2010, 6:32 PM Email
Good. On verra comment ça feel après souper ;p
T’as écouté le EP de tesseract? C’est intense!

Me: 10/29/10, 12:16 PM Facebook
yo, jai trouver un groupe montrealais djent qui se cherche un bassist…. dans mes amis check pour Amr Elsaid. je lui est deja parler de toi. bonne chance dude!

Luca: 10/29/10, 1:22 PM Facebook
Yep, message reçu.
On verra ben ce que ça donne ^^

Me: 11/4/10, 8:26 PM Facebook
et puis, avez vous jammer?

Luca: 11/5/10, 1:45 AM Facebook
Non, jusqu’à date les doods répondent fuckall.
J’ai demandé au guitariste “Ok, t’es dispo quand”, puis sans succès. J’ai l’impression de tenter de fourre rune fille frigide.
In other news, ton interview était super!

Me: 11/5/10, 2:10 AM Facebook
je conanis le dude dun bref encounter dans un bar au party de mon ami il y a quelque annees donc je ne peux pas parler pour lui mais je sais que les 2 fois quon a parler, ca lui a pris quelques jours a me repondre. mais quand je lui est parler de toi, je lui est dit que tu est devouer au djent, donc je ne pense pas que le probleme est de ton coter
pour lentrevu, je lai trouver assez ordinaire… ils not pas vraiment poser de questions original ou interessante, amis bon, jai tellement fait dinterview que cest pt juste rendu plate pour moi haha.

Luca: 11/5/10, 2:13 AM Facebook
Tsk, t’es tellement une star “Bah, les entrevues, c’ets rendu plate”

Me: 11/5/10, 2:14 AM Facebook
loool. cest vrai! je supplis que quelqun me demande cest quoi ton groupe prefere, que je prale de quelque chose dautre!

Me: 11/5/10, 2:31 PM Facebook
hey dude.. jai decider de recommencer a jouer des chansons, grace a faith no more. mais cette fois si a la bass. jaimerais que tu me donne quelques trucs de commencement quand tauras le temps. plus sur la position du jouer, parske je suis sur que je fait pas ca comme il faut. jaimerais etre plus comfortable quand je fais mon finger picking.

Luca: 11/5/10, 2:37 PM Facebook
Hey, ça va me faire plaisir. En général je charge 15$ du cours, mais je t’en fais cadeau.
Il y a différentes façons de faire du finger picking, un peu comme il y a plein de façons de tenir un pick. Moi je vais te donner les trucs qui sont plus “absolus”. Ne casse pas ton poignet, essaie d’avoir ta main en ligne droite avec ton avant-bras. Regarde Adam Nitti.

Et évite d’avoir une ancre (anchor) fixe. Le vidéo de Adam Nitti est excellent pour te montrer comment développer une technique plus confortable.

Me: 11/5/10, 2:52 PM Facebook
ca fait bcp plus de sens comme ca.. jvais devoir me pratiquer comme ca parske jai de la misere a faire suivre mon pousse. mais je vois que ca aide enormement le comfort de la main.

Luca: 11/5/10, 2:54 PM Facebook
C’est juste plus ergonomique demême, moins de risques de blessure, + de force, de vitesse et de flexibilité. Bref, amazing.

Me: 11/5/10, 3:37 PM Facebook
dude, jme sense en premiere annee haha. cest long et plate. je fais la chose la plus basic 0-1-3, 0-1-3, 0-1-3, avec le metronome le plus lent… jetais coucher pour jouer ca mendor tellement… mais deja je trouve que mes notes sont plus stabble. jespere que je vais avoir de la motivation pour continuer haha…
a quel frequance esque je devrais augmenter le metronome?
et esque il y a certaine scales que je devrais pratiquer plus que dautres?

Luca: 11/5/10, 3:39 PM Facebook
commence à 60
fais des gammes : les différents modes de la gamme majeure
Puis quand tu veux aller plus vite, garde le métronome à 60, mais fais des croches au lieu de noires

Me: 11/5/10, 4:30 PM Facebook
je sais pas si tu vas savoir dekoi je parle mais..
quand je suis sur le 4 (grosse) et que je joue une note jai souvent un bruit de come si la corde touchais a une fret ou au pickup… jassume que cest parske je joue trop fort dessu et que je joue vers le bas au lieu de sideways, mais jme demande comment vous faite pour avoir plus dattaque sinon?

Me: 1/5/11, 12:15 PM Facebook
dude, animals as leaders joue a montreal le 14 fevrier au metropolis! je suis pas sur de pouvoir y allez, cest la fete de laura cette journee la… y vas tu?

Luca: 1/5/11, 12:16 PM Facebook
Oh shit!
Je connais Underoath, je savais qu’ils venaient, jtais pas si sûr d’y aller, mais si AAL y va, je vais abuser de mon statut VIP de la presse étudiante et y aller, tu peux être sûr!!

Me: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:01:12 Email
a little something. unfinished
http://soundcloud.com/abridgedpause/post-blackened-sludge-metal-some-error-at4

Luca: Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 3:18 PM Email
Hey!
Ça fait un bail que j’avais pas entendu ça!
Le chug qui embarque à 3:23 c’est TRÈS cool. Otherwise, t’as sérieusement besoin d’une meilleure qualité d’enregistrement pour tout bien faire sortir le potentiel de la toune!
Aussi, la chanson “s,v – bt -dp” est TRÈS cool. Tu pourrais mettre plus d’effets sur ta voix, genre un plus gros delay/reverb par exemple.
Et, last but not least, j’ai un show le 29 janvier à 20h au café chaos! Je sais que tu aimes pas les show live, donc je te tords pas la main pour venir, sans compter qu’il y a un cover de 10$.
Bref, bonne année, et keep them coming.

Me: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:30:24 Email
avec ce que jai, cest pas mal le mieux que je peux faire cote son…
sinon ton show, tu peux me faire un deal? lol

Luca: Jan 12, 2011, 3:40 PM Email
Hey, je sais que tu fais ce que tu peux avec ce que tu as, tu t’en sors pas mal du tout! Je dis juste que là où t’en es, la toune mérite un traitement power studio.
Pis pour le cover, malheureusement, c’est pas moi qui contrôle ça ;p Sinon tout le monde rentrerait gratuitement, ça me ferait plaisir.

Me: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:53:35 Email
et aussi, les tounes BT cest Soufferance. cetait pas prevue que tu les ecoutes mais bon…

Luca: Jan 12, 2011, 3:56 PM Email
Que veux-tu, je suis curieux ^^
On veut garder les tounes under veil jusqu’à la sortie du site web. Mais si tu promet de garder ça pour toi (^^), je peux t’envoyer ce soir notre instrumentale.
Comme je te dis, ça me fait plaisir si tu veux venir nous voir! Mais je sais que t’es pas vraiment un gars de show, surtout si ça risque de thrasher ;p

Me: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:09:17 Email
haha bah jvais avoir eu mon 23 ans dici ce temps la, je pense pouvoir etre capable 😛
envoi moi ca!

Luca: Jan 13, 2011, 11:30 AM Email
Oupsy, je suis rentré chez nous à genre minuit, ça m’est sorti de la tête.
Donc le site web: mirrormindmusic.com
Dessus il y a notre instrumentale: Pulse, dans la section médias. Les autres chansons, les vocals sont pas encore prêtes malheureusement :/

Me: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:15:12 Email
ah fuck! je travail le 29!!! NOOOO justement a 8h aussi.
tu me diras cest quand ton prochain show, cest sur que jsuis la!

Luca: Jan 13, 2011, 12:23 PM Email
Hah, fair enough man.
Tu travailles où maintenant?

Me: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:22:05 Email
ok bon jai un probleme. je veux enregistrer la chanson sur un tempo, mais je sais pas comment trouver le tempo de la toune… comment je m’y prend?

Luca: Jan 15, 2011, 10:16 AM Email
Pogne toi un métronome online sur lequel tu as une fonction “tap”, où tu peux “tapper” le rythme. Et ça te donne le BPM en question.

Me: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:45:12 Email
si je trouve un drummer pour un jam, tes in?

Luca: Jan 15, 2011, 3:19 PM Email
Maleureusement, MirrorMind me bouffe pas mal tout mon temps musical, surtout ces temps-ci.
Ça empêche pas que je continue à vouloir entendre ce que tu produis.

Me: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:19:39 Email
bon ben… peux tu au moin me suggerrer un autre bassist?

Luca: Jan 15, 2011, 3:22 PM Email
Je verrai autour, si j’ai un chum qui est intéressé ça va me faire plaisir de vous matcher les 2.

Me: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:14:48 Email
yo. je voulais savoir si tu aurais du temps libre bientot. je sais que tu nes plus vraiment interesser dans le project quon avait, mais pt que tu serais interesser a maider une derniere fois, juste pour maider a finir de composer la 2ieme chanson quon avait. jai essayer des trucs tout seul, mais jaimais vraiment composer enssemble. je trouve que tu etais super bon juge des riffs a garder, et a maider a re-arranger les sections. si au moin je peux finir cette 2ieme chanson, je vais pouvoir enregistrer les 2 tounnes professionellement et ajouter du drum dessu et vriament etre capable de montrer les 2 styles du band.
esque tas un journee libre quelque part?
alex

Luca: Mon, Feb 21, 2011, 2:20 AM Email
Hey Alex!
J’allais justement me coucher, mais je vais te répondre avant.
Ça va me faire plaisir de t’aider! Juste avant, par contre, j’ai une semaine de la destruction qui m,attend, et après ça je suis en relâche. Donc semaine prochaine je devrais trouver du temps, mais d’ici là ça va être relativement très violent sur ma santé mentale/mes temps libres/mes heures de sommeil.
Donc ouais, ça roule!
C’est le fun créer de la musique avec toi, même si ça me prendrait des journées de 36 heures tout faire fitter entemble.
Donc jte reviens d’ici peu avec mes dispos.
-Alex

Guillaume Fleurent Communications
[missing some of my sent emails due to Thunderbird]

Me: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:58:35 Email
Salut
salut guillaume. william paulhus ma donner ton email. je me recherche un guitariste avec qui jammer, car jai plusieur projet en tete important que je veux lancer serieusement.. mon plus important est un projet post-blackened sludge metal. will ma dit que ca ressemble a du kylesa…
sserais tu interesser a jammer?
alex

Fleurent: Thu, Oct 7, 2010, 5:55 PM Email
Salut Alex, oui ça m’intéresse j’ai bien aimé Kylesa et je me cherche moi aussi des gars pour former un band. Je sais pas quel instrument tu joue mais j’ai des amplis et un système de son chez moi pour ça.
Je suis dispo les fds après 4h00 et le jeudi, vendredi la plupart du temps. Tu peux me rejoindre au 514-825-9220.

Me: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:37:58 Email
moi je suis guitariste, et je jam avec un bassist. thabites dans quel coin? moi jsuis dans ahuntsic, et jai aussi pas mal dequipement ici. mes dispos sont pas mal nimporte quand haha. esque jpeux tappeler se soir pour jazer un peu et posssiblement plannifier un jam?

Fleurent: Oct 7, 2010, 7:06 PM Email
Je suis en visite chez mes parents jusqu’à vendredi soir je pourrais samedi soir sans problème tu peux m’appeler samedi apres 4h pm ! moi si je suis dans ahuntsic j’habite en face du parc en faite héhé

Me: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:25:10 Email
bon le lien cest pour les 2 demos enregistrer le 16 septembre. la toune attacher dans le email cest la nouvelle idee de la 2ieme chanson.
http://www.mediafire.com/?d1z79yt565fqbgc
et aussi quand tauras le temps, tu checkeras mon label Abridged Pause Recordings

Home

alex

Fleurent: Oct 8, 2010, 8:51 PM Email
salut, dsl j’Ai pas été capable de te réécrire la connection à planter chez mon pèere et je viens d’arriver à mtl. Mais, ça l’air bien ton truc si tu veux jammer demain je t’appel comme je dis je peux apres 4h peut-être apres souper meme comme ça je vais pouvoir me reposer un peu en arrivant de la job pour pas etre zombie durant le jam touca on se reparle demain !

Me: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:56:33 Email
ok jattend ton appel dude!

Fleurent: Oct 9, 2010, 4:21 PM Email
salut je croyais avoir ton tel hallucine asteur … j’ai checké dans les emails que tu m’A envoyé et je toruve pas alors si tu pogne ce mail appel moi quand tu veux au 514-825-9220 parce que la je toruve pas le tien …

Fleurent: Oct 10, 2010, 6:07 AM Email
Salut, tien ça c’est mon horaire
lundi au mercredi ; de 3h à 11h pm
jeudi et vendredi ; congé
samedi et dimanche ; de 7h am à 3h pm
Ça va surement changer un moment donné ou je vais sacrer mon camp quand je vais être bin écœuré. C’est sur que tant que c’est pas solide côté musical (avoir tout les musiciens ) et que l’on a pas fait des gigs, je vais garder ma job et mes trucs, mais si ça vient de plus en plus sérieux et qu’on voit que ça vaut la peine je vais revoir mes options.. à moins que tu es de quoi de mieux pour moi ahahah
Donc les matins, du lundi au mercredi ; entre midi et 2h je peux jamer
les soirs du mercredi après 11h pm… (je finis à 11, mais je suis chez nous vers minuit) au dimanche
Je place pas mal la musique dans ma priorité d’activités en fait je fais rien d’autre bin bin… à part essayer de me motiver à aller au gym
Faque t’as rien qu’a m’envoyer des journées ou toi tu veux, moi j’ai pas vraiment de limites… si c’est 3 fois semaines c’est 3 fois, si c’est 4, c’est si c’est 1 fois c’est une fois touca
C’est juste au début je dois m’habituer à ton style de jeux. C’est pas un style que j’ai joué beaucoup, mais ça va ce placer, jtai plus dans le death metal melodic ou le hardcore ….
Donne mois 1 mois pour m’ajuster à ton style et ta façon de jouer et y devrait pu avoir de trouble. Je vais te laisser composer et la place au début (si aprèes tu veux composer à deux jpeux te shooter mes idées, si non y a pas de trouble) le temps que je comprenne exactement le style précis que tu fais et ça devrait y aller. Mais je trip sur le tunning la je joue plein de cossins j’aime bien…
Je vais pratiquer les 2 tounes pour cette semaine ça devrait rentré d’ici 3 4 jours bin tight
bon yes assez écrit !
ps ; si t’as d’autre idées envoie moi ça en mp3 si non vient les taper icitte…

Me: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:39:03 Email
ok cool dude! jaime tas motivation! moi aussi la musique cest ma priorite. je jam avec le bassist aujourdhui donc je vais probablement avoir dekoi de nouveau a venir te montrer.
jessai de voir si jsuis capable de me reveiller plus tot dans le debut de la semaine, mais sinon jeudi ca devrai etre une guitar date!

Fleurent: Oct 10, 2010, 4:14 PM Email
cool j’attend de tes news !

[Missing conversations re: October 14th jam]

Patrick McDowall Communications
[missing some of my sent emails due to Thunderbird]
[responded to an ad on Craigslist]

McDowall: Sun, Jan 23, 2011, 7:24 PM Email
Hey, I am a guitarist who likes a lot of post-metal, sludge,
progressive. etc. I would be interested in hearing the demos you have.
Thanks.
Patrick
http://montreal.fr.craigslist.ca/muc/2157821419.html

Me: 1/23/2011 11:04 PM Email
here we go pat. let me know what you think! hope we can jam soon!
http://soundcloud.com/abridgedpause/post-blackened-sludge-metal-1
alex

McDowall: Jan 24, 2011, 11:59 AM Email
Hey Alex. I enjoy how you have created something that is both black and
sludgy. Very nice. Hard to find metal song writing like this. My current
guitar is not setup to tune this low, but that could be remedied easily.
What tuning are you using?
Do you know where you want to go with this project? Any other members
already involved? Do you have jam space? I also play keyboard/synth and
I have been a singer/screamer for a metal band a few years ago. So,
there are a few different things I could do, if needed.
I guess just send me any more info you have or anything else you would
like to mention.
Patrick

Me: 11-01-24 3:16 PM Email
hey pat. glad you liked it! the band was me and this bassist for a while. he really helped me put the pieces together, although all the composition was me. but he had a really progressive approach to music and it was amazing working with him. he was a 7 string fretless bassist. he quit just a couple weeks ago, right when i found a few potential drummers, as he was too busy with his other band.
We jammed at my place because i have concrete foundations, so everything but drums is highly tolerated. well have to find a jam space if one of those drummers comes in.
as far as the music itself goes, I always intended it to be mostly instrumental. I feel that between the members of the band, if vocals are needed in specific areas, we can handle them ourselves. and I do think that some keys would be benefited in production stage.
the tunning is a little secret, which i will tell you if we are certain to jam 😉
what area to do you live in and whats your schedule like?
alex

[missing communications here]

McDowall: Jan 29, 2011, 2:52 PM Email
Hey Alex,
I am leaving from Vendome Station to your area now so I will arrive a
bit later than I thought. See you soon.

Me: 11-01-30 3:24 PM Email
hey dude, here are my free days: Feb 2,3,4. then it goes to Feb 9,10,11,12.

McDowall: Jan 31, 2011, 7:50 AM Email
Hey Dude. I should be able to get back to you about very soon
(hopefully, tonight) about when we can meet to record your riffs. I am
excited to layer and arrange some parts for the songs. I am sure that
Feb 2, 3, or 4 will work. I just need to find which day works best with
this weeks schedule.
In the meantime… you had asked if I knew of a program that has a click
you can play along to. I found this web based one that should work for you:
http://www.flutetunes.com/metronome/
For the song that you sent me I think you would want to set the Beats
Per Measure to 3, because the song is in 3/4 timing. You can click the
“Tap Tempo Here” button to the beat of the song to find the right tempo
to work with. Hope that helps!
BTW, I still don’t have a cell phone.
Also, I checked out your dark ambient record. Cool atmosphere and
concept. Like I said, the packaging is really cool.
Talk to you soon man

MdDowall: Feb 1, 2011, 7:28 PM Email
How does this Thursday (Feb 3rd) work for you? Anytime after 6 is cool.
Let me know.

Me: 11-02-02 8:43 PM Email
hey dude. tomorrow is good for me. my question is how late am i allowed to stay though? because my girlfriend would be able to pick me up between 9 and 10 after she finishes school, and if its alright for me to stay that late then i can plan it out with her. if not its ok, i dont want to stay later and make you guys uncomfortable.
so let me know whats cool with you, and well plan the time i get there accordingly.
alex

McDowall: 2/3/2011 12:40 AM Email
Yes, it is cool if you stay until 9 or 10 or whatever, no worries at all. All you need to bring is your guitar. Would you be able to come over around 7? I think 2 hours should be enough time to get those tracks recorded.
I was thinking that I could meet you at the Second Cup coffee place on the corner of Claremont and Sherbrooke. I’ll show you to my place from there because it can be hard to find. It is about thirty seconds away from the coffee shop.
Does that sound cool?

Me: 11-02-03 1:59 AM Email
alright, that sounds good dude. so we meet there at 7. ill call you before i leave. do you have a number where i can reach you?
and should i only bring my guitar or also my pedal and wires? or can i just use yours?
alex

McDowall: Feb 3, 2011, 8:05 AM Email
You can reach me at 514-867-8380
just bringing your guitar and a cable would be cool
If you are taking the metro you get off at Vendome station.
See you around 7.

Me: 11-02-09 12:18 AM Email
hey dude. have you had a chance to work on the song at all? i remember that there are a couple pieces i think would need to be re-recorded, like the second guitar of the “atmoshperic” parts that are in between the really heavy pieces. i had recorded 2 guitar takes playing diff things but they didnt match. are you going to re-record the second guitar of that?
alex

McDowall: Feb 11, 2011, 11:06 PM Email
Hey Alex,
Really sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Lately, my life has
become a little crazy. I have had to find a new apartment and sublease
my current place. A little trouble with my girlfriend. I am also
reaching midterms and final assignments and studying for mid-terms is
becoming intense.
I have given it some thought and I think I would rather play in a
project that is more technical. That and my life is crazy right now. I
need to focus so I can get through this term in school without losing my
mind. It was cool jamming and I wish you luck in finding a guitarist
that is a good fit for your project.
Good luck,
-Patrick

Me: 2/21/2011 1:58 AM Email
Hey Pat. Have you gotten my last email? If not, i was wondering if you could send me the two songs we recorded? I could really benefit from
those better recordings so i could add drums to them and try to find a band again.
thanks
alex

McDowall: Feb 22, 2011, 9:48 AM Email
how do you want me to send the tracks to you? What format? All in one
audio file? Let me know what you would like. I don’t know how you would
be able to make drums for the tracks because the tempo changes often.
(remember when we were changing the BPM after each section?). Also, the
tracks themselves are off rhythm a lot (sorry, just being honest) so the
drum parts I was making would not line up with your rhythm, so I kind of
gave up.
That being said, my suggestion would be that compress the entire Reaper
project and sent it to you through Mediafire.com. Then you can download
reaper and use the files within reaper. That way you have a timeline
that matches all the tempo changes we programmed when recording the riffs.
Let me know
Patrick

Me: 11-02-22 12:24 PM Email
mediafire sounsd fine. thanks dude. can you send both songs?

McDowall: Feb 26, 2011, 7:11 PM Email
Hey man,
here are the two reaper projects.
http://www.mediafire.com/?gr617fq5wrwuo8m

 

 

 

 

 

Early December 2013 attempt.

 

Alex: 12/8/13, 3:08 PM Facebook
Hey dude, back in December 2010 you mixed this post-metal song that I had recorded. https://soundcloud.com/abridgedpause/post-blackened-sludge-metal-1
I had actually recorded a second song but thought I lost it. I just found it and I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do the same thing with it? It’s only 1 clean guitar track. It would be to add distortion and make it match that first song. Is this something you could do?

Alex: 12/26/13, 1:47 PM Facebook
Hey dude, back in December 2010 you mixed this post-metal song that I had recorded. https://soundcloud.com/abridgedpause/post-blackened-sludge-metal-1
I had actually recorded a second song but thought I lost it. I just found it and I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do the same thing with it? It’s only 1 clean guitar track. It would be to add distortion and make it match that first song. Is this something you could do?

Garry: 12/26/13, 1:59 PM Facebook
Hey Alex! Sorry I just got your messages. The sounds I had used on that first song have been lost in my HD failure last year or so, unfortunately. I have new sounds since then but it wouldn’t sound the same.

 

 

 

 

Guillaume Duff Communications

Early December, Guillaume Duff posts on Kijiji “Drummer – Sludge / Stoner / Post / Doom – NEED A BAND”
http://montreal.kijiji.ca/c-community-artists-musicians-Drummer-Sludge-Stoner-Post-Doom-NEED-A-BAND-W0QQAdIdZ548928685

Me: 3 December 2013 13:44, Kijiji
Hey dude. I’ve been working on some post sludge metal stuff for a couple of years. Here’s a demo of the first song
https://soundcloud.com/abridgedpause/post-blackened-sludge-metal-1

Duff: Dec 3, 2013, 2:56 PM Email
Sick dude!
Sounds fucking neat ! Very black-metal on the riffs construction… My concern here is that I’m not a huge huge double bass player and I don’t know what do you expect in terms of drumming on your track…
Still I like the musicality of the tune, plus the overall construction and if you are down to low a little bit these kind of rhythm to something a little bit slower, louder and deeper, that would be exactly my dope.
Do you know Year of no Light ? and Amenra? They have the vibe I’m kinda seeking for.
Check my older stuff I was in (back in Europe)
https://myspace.com/wethefaceless/music/songs

You’d be up to Jam soon, so we can give a try and see how it goes mixing our ideas?
Cheers !
Duff

Me: Dec 3, 2013, 3:28 PM Email
Ya we can try something out. I listen to a lot of 90s metalcore so I think we can connect on a lot of stuff. Do you have a place where we can jam? Unfortunately I don’t have room for drums in my apartment.

Duff: Dec 3, 2013, 3:46 PM Email
Yup I’ve got a space for my drum (behing Bell center … sketchy but cool) and we can do a kick-ass jam nearly all days 😀
Do you have any free evening this week or next week?
On peut aussi parler en langue de Moliere si tu veux…
See ya

Duff: Dec 4, 2013, 10:32 AM Email
Oi dude!
So when r u free ?
Cheers

Me: Dec 4, 2013, 11:23 AM Email
Hey! I’m free a lot of the time lately. I work from home for archiving contracts. Anything afternoon or evenings is good for me.

Me: Dec 4, 2013, 11:32 AM Email
Also, are there any amps there that I could use for the first jam or do I have to bring mine?

Duff: Dec 4, 2013, 11:40 AM Email
Yup there’s a guitar amp available 😀
what about saturday afternoon ?

Me: Dec 4, 2013, 3:07 PM Email
Ya Saturday works! Does 2 or 3 pm work? What’s the address. My cell is 514-318-1621 btw.

Duff: Dec 5, 2013, 3:24 PM Email
2pm would be perfect!
1180 St antoine Ouest.
Call me when u there, so I come to get u at the entry
514 814 4077

Me: Dec 7, 2013, 12:22 PM Email
Hey I called that number you gave me and apparently it’s not you. Is there still a jam at 2? What’s the correct number to reach you?

Duff: Dec 7, 2013, 1:19 PM Email
514 814 4077 …. perhaps I don’t have enough credit on it 😀 but texting is working
Still good for 2pm

Me: Dec 9, 2013, 11:36 AM Email
Hey dude I forgot to put the settings back on the bass amp. I really hope your friend won’t be mad. Here is the picture of his settings before I changed it in case you have a chance to send it to him.
[sent picture]

Duff: Dec 10, 2013, 10:40 AM Email
Haha ! That’s sweet dude 🙂 thx!
Check my FB: https://www.facebook.com/viktor.macbernik … easier to speak !

Duff: 12/12/13, 11:52 AM Facebook
Oi dude !
check this
http://grooveshark.com/russiancircles
http://grooveshark.com/profile/Amenra/22324911
http://grooveshark.com/yearofnolight
those are the bands I was talking to you about on Sunday
….
11:55 when r u free to jam again ?
12:04 can’t wait to play hehe

Me: 12/12/13, 12:20 PAM Facebook
I might be free on Sunday if not Tuesday should be good. Are those okay for you?

Duff: 12/12/13, 12:24 AM Facebook
sunday better
there will be ppl at my jampad on tuesday
chekc the links I sent ot u if u can

Duff: Dec 22, 2013, 6:01 PM Email
Oi dude !
How r u?
You would have some free time to jam soon ?
See ya !
Duff

Me: Dec 22, 2013, 6:45 PM Email
Hey dude! Sorry about taking so long! With Xmas and New Years I’ve been super busy. And I had to finish some renovations in my apartment. What are your availabilities after Xmas? We can plan out an afternoon to jam and then if you have time for a drink at my place after, since we live close by?

Duff: Dec 25, 2013, 8:35 PM Email
Let’s organize something after the new year’s eve… ok?
I hope u had a good xmas 🙂
Speak to you soon
Duff

Duff: Jan 15, 2014, 11:59 AM Email
Oi there !
any free-time soon ?
See ya!

Me: Jan 18, 2014, 10:10 PM Email
Hey Duff! So sorry about the huge delay and all that. I have to admit that after the holidays, I had a bit of a mood crash. I think I’m okay now! Are you free to jam tomorrow (Sunday, January 19th 2014)? If not we can plan a 100% date this week to get this going again!
You can text or call me if you prefer! 514-318-1621.

Duff: Feb 6, 2014, 12:23 PM Email
Hi Dude !
I’ve bene busy all wekends with working duty. It should calm down soon, I keep u in touch!
How r u?

Me: 2/6/14, 12:51 PM Facebook
Hey dude, just got your email. I’m doing fine. Are you directing a music video?
Keep me posted on the jamming. I’m still interested! I have a friend who might be interested in playing second guitar, once we get good with the songs.
[probably Simon]

Duff: 2/26/14, 12:30 PM Facebook
Hi Dude !
Sorry I’ve been pretty busy lately in between my job and my home moving… I’m gonna try to free up some time in March, so we can make noise again.
Hope u ok?
Speak to u soon!
Guillaume

 

 

 

 

On December 21st 2019, I decided on the official naming of the songs. Lanterns Awake Part 1, Lanterns Awake Part 2, Lanterns Awake Part 3. This was mainly based on the fact that all of the demoed songs had numbers on them, and also because the March 26th 2010 recordings were titled “Late March 2010 Version of Lantern’s Awake”.