Âmes Sanglantes is an underground noise project started by Pierre-Marc Tremblay in September 1996. This was a valley for noise and many of the underground bands went even further into obscurity. Yet the doors of the international noise network were about to break open with the arrival of the internet calamity. Ames was highly active on the MSBR guestbook days of noise where punters would "sign" the guestbook and leave adverts and make contact with other loners. An electronic version of a bulletin board with classified ads for "piano lessons", "English tutors", and bands "seeking lead singers". A melting pot of grindcore, absurdist mail art, and industrial punk, this "pay-to-play" scene consisted of open-minded strangers who would send one another one half of a c60 on principle to other strangers to make a split tape. 99-track compilation CDs where the artist would submit a piece under one minute, pay a small fee, and receive one or two copies of the disc in exchange were the only hope of promotion. Many times, open call compilation submissions would fail to materialize and masters that hadn't been duplicated would be lost. As the '90s came to a close, the last dying gasp of the pre-internet world finally collapsed. Mr. Tremblay immersed himself in the black metal band Akitsa, which rose to cult status as being one of the "real" bands from North America in the third wave of black metal from the late '90s. But make no mistake, this was a black metal full of punk, noise, and industrial influences that Mr. Tremblay carried along from his insane past in the DIY tape culture meltdown world of harsh noise and freak-out grind bands. A change took place and Âmes Sanglantes shed its nonsensical skin to adopt a darker, more focused industrial and ambient noise. This new transformation was equally informed by Cold Meat Industry alongside RRRecords and the early days of Alien8 recordings, an imprint close to Tremblay during his first experiments with youthful electronics. Now having secured himself cult status in the black metal world, Âmes Sanglantes has returned as Bloody Souls. Âmes Sanglantes is also a live project that has shared the stage with artists such as Kevin Drumm, Alberich, MSBR, Tim Hecker, Godflesh, and more.
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HOS 706LP
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Born in 1996, Ames Sanglantes is known from numerous splits and massive amounts of cassette releases including work on Xerxes, Labyrinth Recordings, MSBR, The Rita, Hermit, Autoerotichrist, Alberich, Flutter, Bob Marinelli, and Guilty Connector, despite never having a proper vinyl release until now. In commemoration for the project's 25-year anniversary, Hospital Productions present an assaulting LP of madness clearly following a trajectory from Masonna "beauty beast" voice noise agony and damning it through the lens of the lesser-known deformed cassette world of the late '90s and early 2000 tape scene. Unreasonable filters, abusive wine bottle rattles, creepy spacey backgrounds interrupted by knife stabbing metal sheets twisted and gouging in tandem to broken tea cup vocals. Minimalist in palette but a dynamic self-destructive energy cut across a series of "crucifix noise" tracks. Includes download code; edition of 666.
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HOS 589CD
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Triple-CD reissue. Originally released as a triple cassette of only 66 copies. Âmes Sanglantes means "bloody souls". Nowhere else in Âmes Sanglantes' sprawling and massive wild/punk/junk discography has this idea been more focused than on the epic and original Chindia Tower Impalements, as well as on cult tapes like Anti-Anti (1999), Mega Star Barbies, Violation, and the immense and impossible 12-hour-long Crackdown cassette box from Hospital Productions last year. This newly remastered version is the definitive document revealing the cruelty of the Wallachian landscape myths and realities. Dracula vs. Vlad Tepes... Caustic, brittle, and eerie, the six long-duration tracks secure Âmes Sanglantes as one of the most original and overlooked extreme electronic monikers of the '90s North American cassette underground. Distorted but textural where the voices of young androgynous screams mingle together with chirping birds and wolf breath. It's the subtle layering and tape splicing structure beneath the crust that elevates this above the average "noise" recording. You will have to dig and claw past the walls built out of clay bricks, but beyond that is a rich and subtle world of loops equal parts Georges Braque and William Basinski, like collapsing scaffolding melting and crumbling on top of each other. This is rotting electro-acoustic studies where one can see a portrait float to the surface in the rippling and muddy puddles. Shockingly, after nearly 100+ cassette-only release since 1996, this comes forward as the first Âmes Sanglantes compact disc. A true student of the '90s, you'll find a stunning presentation that is equal parts in reference to Cold Meat Industry as well as Japan's Alchemy Records. So open up the old CD changer, light a few candles, and a pour the red wine for an epic that revives the imagination of times lost and losses yet to come. RIYL: William Basinski, Incapacitants, Brighter Death Now, and the early works of Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement. Remastered by Paul Corley (Oneohtrix Point Never, Ben Frost, Prurient). Eight-panel, foil block digipack.
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