QUINTRON - SUCRE DU SAUVAGE (2LP)

Quintron Sucre Du Sauvage on 2LP

From January 29th through May 2nd of 2010, Quintron punched a time clock and reported to work at NOMA to write and record this album in a public gallery space. During the final seven days of the session, the artist imprisoned himself within the museum and its surrounding grounds. He roamed the park by night making field recordings and then weaved them into the final mixes of the album by day. The week concluded with a blindfolded listening party in the NOMA auditorium.

Part one of this severely schizophrenic dual album is Quintron with far wider instrumentation than usual. Tympani, vibraphone, whistling and tape loops join the ranks of drum machine and electric organ. There is also a noticeable increase in the number of chords used per song compared to previous Quintron albums. There are also two dreamy Miss Pussycat tunes entitled “Banana Beat” and “Spirit Hair.” Noise and field recordings creep into this first half of Sucre Du Sauvage. In part two, these elements win the battle as music and structure completely surrender to disparate sounds running wild. Electronic and acoustic instruments blur together with ducks, insects, birds, water and even museum elevators until they all become brutal hypnotic madness.

The NOMA sessions yielded literally thousands of hours of tape. This album is the cream of that crop, the Sucre Du Sauvage. No post-production or overdubs were done. When the exhibit closed, the work was finished. It is what it is, and it probably ain’t happening again any time soon.

Quintron Sucre Du Sauvage Track Listing:

1.  Ring the Alarm
2.  Face Down in the Gutter
3.  New Years Night
4.  Kicked Out of Zolar X
5.  Banana Beat
6.  Sucre Du Sauvage
7.  All Night Right of Way
8.  Spirit Hair
9.  Elevator
10. Deer in the Clouds
11. Bells
12. Train Ride
13. Jazz bar
14. Morning