(…) Just a few weeks before the Victo Fest, a young trio from Quebec called
La Part maudite came down and played a short set at our store
(5/1/11) on an odd triple bill with the sound poetry of
Jacques
Demierre and a mostly Korean quartet.
La Part maudite
features
Philippe Battikha on electric trumpet,
Mivil Deschênes on electric bass and
Patrick Dion
on drums. Their set at Victo was much louder and more intense. Their bassist was often
at the center of most of their pieces playing heavy fuzz bass riffs that were hypnotic
and occasionally overwhelming. This trio really do not sound like any other band I’ve
heard and are between categories with understated jazz, rock & prog influences. The
trumpeter used a great deal of effects and distortion on his instrument, which worked
most of the time yet gave him a bit of kazoo-like tone on occasion. There were few
solos in their set so the music was more about mood and texture. There were some
triumphant Crimson-like sections and they found a way to avoid the usual jazz/rock
cliches that plague certain fusion bands. I look forward to seeing what they develop
into next. (…)
Dansant au bord du gouffre,
La Part maudite conçoit la beauté à travers le chaos et le dépouillement des formes, brodant les fibres d’une modernité convulsive à l’immobilité des anciens. Depuis sa formation à l’automne 2008,
La Part Maudite s’affaire à combattre la malédiction de la complexité. Intéressé à la fois par la texture et la mélodie, ce trio alliant noise, jazz corrompu et violence gratuite plonge dans l’abysse du bruit et en extirpe les tripes du rock.
Lurking on the brink of disaster, La Part maudite (The Accursed Share) finds beauty in chaos and simplicity in form, weaving the fibers of a distracted modernity into the calm of the ancients. Coming together with the falling of the leaves in Autumn 2008, La Part Maudite has been working towards mending the spell of complexity. Interested in texture and melody, this hard hitting noise-rock trio delves into the darkness of ambient noise and resurges out of the rhythms & soul of rock.
Philipe Battikha - Trompette et pédales
Mivil Deschênes - Bass
Patrick Dion - Drums