thisquietarmy

Ambient / Experimental / Indie

Dark Dreamlands

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About

Eric Quach is a guitarist and sound engineer who performs under the name thisquietarmy. He is also the guitarist and founding member of the Montreal-based instrumental rock band Destroyalldreamers (Where Are My Records, Claire’s Echo).

As thisquietarmy, a one-man solo drone/ambient project, Quach composes visual guitar-based soundscapes and experimental music that goes beyond the typical song structure. By exploring his guitar as a tone generator, he furthers the boundaries of his instrument with the use of multiple effect processors & real-time loop-samplers, alternating the guitar signal’s shape and tone, blending textures over textures, merging a wide combination of sounds together and developing the melodies hidden in these walls of sound. Concrete musical ideas are often generated by the re-interpretation, the decomposition and the reconstruction of its own improvisations.

thisquietarmy has released two albums « Unconquered » and « Blackhaunter » in 2008, respectively on Poland’s Foreshadow Productions and USA’s Elevation Recordings. He has also released several EPs including: « Wintersleeper » (2005) and « Orange » (2006), both on his own imprint TQA Records, « Echotone » (2007) on Canada’s Chat Blanc Records.

In 2009, thisquietarmy brought his music across the ocean with an extensive European tour in Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Czech Republic and Poland, with Nadja. A collaborative album « A Picture of a Picture » with Aidan Baker (Nadja) was released on USA’s Killer Pimp Records and a soundtrack « Transmissions » for Christy Romanick’s photo-book was released on USA’s Space30a & Canada’s Alien8 Recordings. « Luftpost » was also self-released as a limited European tour CD/DVD on TQA Records.

thisquietarmy is currently working on a couple of albums and EPs for several labels including Alien8 Recordings (Canada) and Basses Fréquences (France). With already such a large body of work in which is revealed a large range of guitar-based sonic styles, from drone/ambient to electro-psychedelic shoegaze/post-rock, thisquietarmy is a forward contender as a pioneer of the experimental Canadian music scene.

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2 weeks ago

Live at Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (Paris / France)

Thank you Albanmono.

short break from music: painting

before the whole music thing started, there was painting.
slowly, painting faded away then disappeared. work & music took priority etc.

i took a short break from music for the last week or so, and did a few, after a friend had commissioned me for one. i've never accepted …

thisquietarmy goes time-lapse in Esslingen, Germany

thisquietarmy

Live at Villa Markel
Esslingen, Germany
June 2nd, 2009

Shot & edited by thisquietarmy.

I left the camera on the soundboard, which wasn't the best angle, but it makes it for a fun "45 min. set condensed to 5 min." video. It's the only show I filmed during my …

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static itch, Nov 18, 2008:

Hey man, hope you are in excellent spirits! Just wanted to let you know that I've got 3 new tracks along with 4 reworked ones up on the player. Would definitely appreciate your thoughts if you have the time. Also, I'll be more than happy to pass you the mp3s if you like. Keep the music coming and the spirit soaring man! Peace!