- Ambient
- Epic
- Soundscape
- Post-classical
- Ambient drone
- Field
recording
- Electronic music
- Musique concrète
Comment:
Mathieu Lamontage is an artist of French-Canadian ancestry from
the province of Quebec, Canada
who is also being known as
Arbee. In fact, he is
obviously being better known due to the nom de plume due to having it
preceded
to writing music under his own personal name. What may be the main
difference between Mathieu Lamontage and Arbee? His oeuvre being
written under his own name is evidently
more concentrated on ambient
and drone sounds with
intention to create more monumental works
– by listening to this 3-track outing one can hear either
fragmented or segmented fractals related to a
majestically sweeping whole
which could be considered a
representative of those immense snow fields at northern part of
Quebec, a good plateau for riding on snowmobile while being
surrounded by the overcoming
void and wind. Indeed, it is
a beatific perspective being
separated off the suffocating civilisation. Of
course, such picturesque sort of descriptions cannot be eradicated
from my personal memory due to experiencing another Quebecer Tim
Hecker`s early albums, especially
Radio Amor
which is some kind of quintessence of the Northern Hemisphere being
described through audible artificial frequencies. The
blissful glimpse is
a part of the discography of Audio Gourmet.
