Soufferance – Memories of a City

was heavily influenced by Swans and Eleventh He Reaches London When I was looking for a record label for the second Soufferance full-length album, “Adieu Tristesse”, I spent the entire night of July 30th/31st 2011 emailing over 75 record labels. One of those labels was Pale Noir Records from Wisconsin, US. Nicole Wilson Renhart got …

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Compilation – insomniSerpents Vol. 1

After I released “Bonjour Tristesse” and “Adieu Tristesse” on Abridged Pause in November of 2013, I started looking for labels to submit songs for compilations. One of the labels that got back to me was Roach Clip Records from Salt Lake City, Utah on November 17th 2013, after I saw a post on his website …

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Soufferance – Bonjour Tristesse (Digital)

There isn’t much detail to go into about this third version of Souffearnce’s “Bonjour Tristesse” EP. Like I mentioned in the CD and tape posts, this release was plagued with problems and I figured that I should do a proper, official, digital re-issue through Abridged Pause Recordings to coincide with the digital release of “Adieu …

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Soufferance – Adieu Tristesse

To add: -Adieu Tristesse Recorded: November 30th 2009 – November 14th 2010 First mixing: November 16th 2010 – November 21st 2010 Second Mixing: February 2nd 2011 – May 16th 2011 Third Mixing September 9th 2011 (Marc Hoyland) Fourth Mixing (8th song) Summer 2012? Samples Mixed: August 26th 2013 Produced: November 30th 2009 – August 26th …

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Unfinished: Near Death

It was a hell of a countdown. I had been isolating myself in my room for two days. Nourishment was reduced to the bare minimum and I was starting to reek of the need to bathe. I didn’t want that day to come. And I would have to face it alone because I had no …

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A Memory of a City

I had forgotten how lonely this apartment was. Or maybe I had just gotten used to it after so many weeks of staying in. It took months to get used to the last place after she left. But somehow, everything came back fresh in the solitude of this environment. The filth on the walls brought …

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Lucid Dreaming in New Jersey

“Lucid Dreaming in New Jersey” (original title “Lucid Dreaming”) was a film made by my friend Howard Change. He had begun filming it in the summer of 2010 and asked me to come down to New Jersey and act a small part in the film. During the weekend of July 30th 2010, I had planned …

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For a Past Beauty

I wrote this about Laura Dolgy. I had fallen into the old routine already. I knew that it wouldn’t be long before I got like this again. I was detesting myself, and with reason. I was relentlessly single, and hating every moment of it. I could not bear the idea of being alone. Not after my codependence had …

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Murder on Redpath

Get FB conversations with Simon Talbot, Tony, Guy Gaffney, Janie De Jeu, Victor Berger, will help with dates My interest in playing metalcore goes back to 2004 and took a small peek in 2008 with Human Infect. But it wasn’t until I made some real contacts that I could start to focus on something serious. …

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Togetherness

I wrote this for Laura Dolgy   I had just been fired, for the first time in my life, and it had been quite distressing. How could I have seen it coming. It was sneaky, distasteful and degrading. I was fired because my sense of humor was not approved by the fellow employees. Because I …

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Those Lips

So I wrote this little poem in a half hour for Laura. It could have been better, and its pretty corny, but I want to remember it. I think but of your lips This tenderness I tonight kissed Tonight my dreams are blissed And all because of this A girl I will much miss Until …

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Soufferance – Dementia Præcox

During the post-production phases of “Bonjour Tristesse” I had been thinking of making a music video for the promotion of this release. I initially wanted two version; one full length version and a short version. The full length version would be the full seventeen minutes song, and would only be shared with close friends, and …

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The Electro Songs

I really can’t find much to say about these two songs. Actually they’re not even songs, they’re ideas. And I think they are just as bad right now as I thought they were when I recorded them sometime in early 2011 (some date crawled up to April 4th 2011, but I have a feeling it …

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The Emo Band Stuff

I have always been a fan of 90’s emo and post-hardcore music. So when I met Simon Talbot in 2009 when he was playing in The Zyphoid Process (which later changed name to Great White North) we started talking about doing an emo side project together. It was mostly talk for a couple years but …

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Soufferance – Bonjour Tristesse (CD)

Last.fm Scrobbles 2010 September 22nd Soufferance, Vision — Soufferance Split Song 2010 October 1st Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Praecox 2010 October 4th Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Praecox 2010 October 5th Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Praecox 2010 October 10th Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Præcox 2010 October 21st Soufferance, Vision — Dementia Præcox 2010 October 23rd Soufferance, …

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Collaboration with Immundus

needs re-write. here’s the transcipt Citadel Swamp started October 2010 Jan 26 immundus first parts jan 28 bass stuff feb 23 immundus second parts and first mix feb 26 immundus second mix feb 28 immundus third mix march 3rd immundus fourth mix https://www.facebook.com/messages/search/558622698?query=im Conversation started July 19, 2010 Alexandre Julien 7/19, 6:23pm Alexandre Julien hey …

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Oh! Those Hosers Are From Canada, Eh?

“Oh! Those Hosers Are From Canada, Eh?” was a blog that I created in December of 2010 in order to publish non hardcore music articles of Canadian bands that I wanted to write about. “How Can They Intend to Heal?” was solely dedicated to Canadian hardcore music and its genres, but I wanted to cover …

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