Outputs created during the period of December 2010 to around May of 2012. Incredibly influenced by Laura Dolgy.
-2010 band started in October 2010 with Bruno Duarte, though technically my collaboration with Immundus was never part of Citadel Swamp, in 2016 I decided to merge them to prevent confusion. -2011 It was on January 17th of 2011 that I proposed to Valerio Orlandini to collaborate on some music. I had been in touch …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
My idea for “How Can They Intend to Heal” came in the summer of 2009. By this time blogs were sprouting everywhere, especially in the hardcore community. I had previously created, operated and documented the Culture and Bird of Ill Omen Myspaces, in 2007, which at the time I had received a lot of help …
In September 2011 I was looking for new labels to work with after Quartier23 had ruined a couple of other deals. Abandonment Records wanted to use an unreleased song on a compilation to be called “Welcome to Our Decayed Factory”. At the time I had some demos recorded that I didn’t know what to do …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
The fourth Vision Éternel EP had come out on March 14th 2012, and I already had planned a few weeks before to film an introductory video to promote the album. I asked Jeremy Roux but it took a bit to set up a date to do it. At first we were going to film it at CEGEP …
“The Last Great Torch Song” is the fourth extended play by Vision Éternel. I’ve always been equally proud and regretful about the release of this EP because it was a highly bastardized, chopped up and glued back together type of release, yet it featured some of the best material that I have ever composed. It …
In November of 2011, Pale Noir Records, who were going to release the Soufferance album “Memories of a City“, had asked me to submit a music video for a compilation DVD. I was so excited and on January 10th 2012 Jeremy and I went out for our first night of shooting for this music video. …
This was probably the best photo shoot that Jeremy and I ever did together. Unfortunately it was completely lost in the early months of 2012 due to a computer crash and neither I nor Jeremy had a backup of it. The images here are the only ones I had copies of from Facebook. taken on the …
This was always one of my favorite songs from the early days of Soufferance. Prior to the release of “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the Mind”, it was always this song that I used to show to people. So I made a quicky video on October 11th 2011 with footage from a film called …
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 …
On the afternoon of September 23rd, 2011, I told my best friend Jeremy that we needed to hang out that day, and to bring his camera because I was due for a new video and most of all a new interview. The evening started out with going to play pool at Boul Noir, where we …
About half a year after the CD release of “Bonjour Tristesse”, it was late July 2011, and I was desperately looking for new record labels to work with and release either upcoming material by Soufferance or re-issue the older material on new formats. I had been wanting to do this since 2007. My goal was that for …
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. …
This photoshoot was our first at trying out film noir lighting techniques. We placed my jacket over the light source at different angles to attempt to get cool shades. We went to the Sailors’ Memorial Clock because it was a place we wanted to explore, but we didn’t get any closer than where we took …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
-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 …
While reproducing/remaking the whole second full-length album in February of 2011, I realized that two specific pieces I had composed were incredibly important and moving to me. They were the two pieces that showed the most my Swans influence. I knew the album wouldn’t be out for a while, so I decided to make a …
On February 5th 2011 I was struck with an epiphany to write about the hope of life. This was just quick notes in hope to develop it into a short story or lyrics. It was likely brought on by a temporary breakup or fight that I had with Laura Dolgy. The whole point to this …
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 …
On the early morning of my 23rd birthday, January 15th 2011, I received an email from Marco, head of Quartier23, about a compilation he was putting together, based on the seven luminaries. He wanted it out for March 23rd of 2011. He wanted the inclusion of Soufferance on it. My time limit was 5 minutes, …
On January 3rd 2011, Jeremy came over at my apartment on Henri-Bourassa to jam. We had intended on doing a photoshoot later that night for some Soufferance artwork for “Adieu Tristesse“, and so we went to Sault-au-Recollet to Ile-de-la-Visitation. But not before we played some guitar while Laura was on the bed working on school …
“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 …
Mike O’brien from Melankolia was putting together a Tribute to Burzum called “Forsvunnet Filosofem”. I decided that I would attempt to do a song from his later catalog, as they were already ambient pieces, and I could try to keep a similar mood in the Soufferance fashion. I was getting an operation the next morning, …