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From Amazon.co.uk:
lt's hard to imagine this disc coming out of Montreal or, really, any urban habitat. The post-rock instrumentals on f#a#(infinity symbol), distantly related to the sounds made by the Australian band Dirty Three, serve as walking music for a loner hoping to hitch a ride in the middle of the Arizona desert and dealing with the inevitability of another night in coyote territory. Godspeed's swelling array of guitars, bagpipes, cellos, violins, trumpets, and drums is riveted together with an understated hope that is emotionally clutching, often devastating. This core of heavy Midwestern stoicism, saturated with waves of strings, hardcore interludes, and ripples of Morricone guitar, leaves listeners with the understanding that there is no escape from the badlands that surround and permeate us. --Michael Woodring

From :
0n first listen, Montreal collective Godspeed You Black Emperor sounds familiar, like sonic-landscape architects the Dirty Three. But pay closer attention to this debut full-length and you'll find something much more compelling: G.Y.B.E. mix found sounds, voices, lilting string sections, and musique concrète into structures that tell a story. With each listen, a new plot twist is unraveled, a new movie sample identified--you start to listen closely with headphones to pick up new subtleties you couldn't hear previously. Three tracks, a bit over an hour, of great music that defies categorization. --Jason Verlinde

Amazon.ca:
Septième album solo de Michel Rivard, Le Goût de l'eau… et Autres Chansons naïves, paru en 1992, séduit rapidement avec ses ritournelles enjôleuses. L'enfant chéri de la chanson québécoise délaisse les synthétiseurs d'Un trou dans les nuages pour revenir à ses premières amours : les guitares acoustiques. Dans les mains agiles de Rick Hayworth, complice de toujours, elles côtoient l'autoharpe, la mandoline et la guitare hawaïenne.

Le résultat n'est pas pour autant exotique : on a affaire à 11 chansons bien ficelées, à des musiques à la fois simples et denses qui savent soutenir les textes intelligents de Rivard. Le ton se fait grave dans 'L'0ubli', brillant et émouvant hommage au cinéaste québécois Claude Jutra : 'll notait tout dans un carnet/Le nom des gens l'odeur des choses/Et quand le vent virait morose/Pour se souvenir il relisait/Mais il voyait entre les lignes grandir le trou blanc de l'oubli'.

Qu'il parle de l'enfance ('La Lune d'automne', 'Tu peux dormir', 'Bille de verre') ou des réflexions d'un chien sur la plage ('Sourire de chien'), Michel Rivard nous sert un album rempli de charme et d'humour qui fait la part belle à la nostalgie. À écouter la fenêtre ouverte, la tête dans les souvenirs d'enfance. --Yannick Duguay









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Disc 1:

1. Dead Flag Blues (Intro)
2. East Hastings
3. Providence

Note: - Nearly impossible to describe
GYBE!'s debut is almost entirely in a league of its own. The group's later releases such as Lift Your Skinny Fists would see the group become more musical, but this album is just as classic as that, if not more so, its post-apocalyptic soundscapes as beautiful as they are terrifying.

Believe me, this album is not for the faint of heart or for those who prefer their songs to come with lyrics or tidily end after only a few minutes. Godspeed have instead painted portraits of abandoned cities and desolate wastelands using nothing more than their own instruments.

Indeed, the effect of the album is not unlike listening to the soundtrack to a film that's had its vocal tracks removed or lost, leaving the plot to be determined by the listener's imagination, and the few found-sound vocal clips utilized by the group for atmospheric purposes. (The most noteworthy of these being the street preacher that opens the album's second track.)

Perhaps Godspeed's greatest accomplishment with this album is just how emotional it is. Godspeed know very well that lyrics aren't needed to provide emotional depth to music and prove it ably in the album's tracks. Beautiful strings gradually build up to cathartic wails before dropping out. Faded-out pianos suggesting a long-lost Old West tavern rise from nowhere. Unhuman voices overpower the listener before transforming into the powerless buzz of a fly.

Those with open minds or a like of experimentation owe it to themselves to get this straightaway. Otherwise, Lift Your Skinny Fists provides a much better (and much less harrowing) introduction to the group's work.

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Note: - Godspeed Indeed
Wow. Such a great piece of work, especially for a debut. GYBE take their thoughts and skills into their first album to give off an apocalyptic theme, creating lush soundscapes and eerie noise effects generated by beauty of art. Although this album is only 3 songs long, it's still timely huge. Over an hour in total length, f#a# (infinity) is insanely worth the money for just 3 songs (since the shortest song on this is almost 17 minutes long anyway) HIGHLY recommended for people who are fans of Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Mogwai, you get the picture.

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Note: - * Beautiful..... ...
With GY!BE, your either one of two different types of people. You will either become bored with their music from the start, write it off as artsy garbage, walk away and never pick them up again. OR you will be patient, look at the complete picture and enjoy their work. You should know that GY!BE doesn't play by the traditional rules of music. Your likely never going to see a standard album with 12 songs, each being 3-4 minutes long form GY!BE. Instead you will get 2 or 3 songs spanding 12 or so minutes. GY!BE take to their work like composers. Each track on their albums seems to have chapters with brief interludes that trek across varying sound scapes and emotions. The best song on this album is "East Hastings". It may seem that it's just celtic music with a mad man in the background, but once the song gets going, buckle up. To fully appreciate GY!BE you need to be opened minded. GY!BE won't jump out at you and demand your attention with catchy hooks and simple lyrics ( there are no lyrics...heh) they simply make unique and inovative music and leave the rest up to you.

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Note: - Superb soundscapes
Trying to describe the music of Godspeed You Black Emperor is like trying to describe a dream. You can offer an accurate description of the people and places involved and what took place, but actually capturing the essence of the dream is difficult. One must experience it firsthand.

So, too, is the music here difficult to describe. You can describe the instruments and how they go about their business, but until you hear it, you won't have a clear picture of what this band is all about.

Built upon layers of instrumentation by a band that at times swells to more than a dozen members, Godspeed You Black Emperor, or Gybe for short, mix airy, noisy guitar with strings, sound collages, chimes, and much more. Throwing this array of sounds together, they take fairly simple musical themes and build them up over a long period of time, morphing the musical themes and simple melodies until they metamorphosis into something wholly different than what they began as. This isn't simply droning, lulling music. The effect is a journey.

One could liken Gybe records to soundtracks for films that have never been made. It's a description that works, because their music conjures images in your head.

On this first album, "f#a# (infinity symbol)," the handful of songs are less focused as on later records. They meander from theme to theme, soundscape to soundscape, like a series of musical ideas strung together. It works marvelously. Over the course of more than an hour (despite their being only four "songs," one unlisted) we hear twisted themes out of an American western, sprawling washes of noise, crescendos of ear-splitting guitar and feedback, and gentle, soothing tones. Mixed through are the sound of field recordings, spoken word bits, radio transmissions and more.

If it all sounds very anti-radio, it is. You won't find this stuff on a top 40 station.

And how could you? Songs take 15, 20, 30 minutes to build, rising and falling like a tide, going from loud, louder, loudest to soft, softer, softest all within the same track. Strings swell up and dominate, and then guitar takes over, and then some twisted sound effect.

Fans of Spiritualized's more noisy and/or more orchestral moments will enjoy this - though don't expect vocals. Bardo Pond fans will appreciate the dense walls of sound. Those recently discovering Sigur Ros are likely to delight in Gybe - though again, don't expect vocal. If you like Dirty Three or Azusa Plane, you'll enjoy this. Even fans of My Bloody Valentine will appreciate the rich, lush musical textures.

Godspeed You Black Emperor is a superb band for those who enjoy lengthy songs, sprawling soundscapes and music you can sink into. It's a heady experience listening to this stuff. And it's worth it.

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Note: - * absolutely beautiful. ...
and there is nothing more to say.the way they blend all of the instruments and samples in this cd amaze me.