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Musée Des Espèces
MC $9.75

10/03/2025  

NNF 435 


MP3 $7.99

10/03/2025 657628456292 

NNF 435 


FLAC $8.99

10/03/2025 657628456292 

NNF 435 


The ‘soundscape ecologies’ of Montreal composer Marc-Antoine Barbier first emerged from late-night home studio improvisations triangulating Hassel, Krause, and sleep deprivation. Gradually, granular tapestries took shape, weaving modal electronics with percussion, sax, flute, and DX7. The result is a low-lit patchwork of dream and delirium, fractal ambient and fifth-world freefall: Musée Des Espèces [‘Museum of Species’].

Barbier’s background in new wave world-building and synth-patch sculpting fuses here to full effect. The songs are alternately soothing and serpentine, swaying with smoke, rhythm, color, and ceremony. It’s album-as-environment, a harmony of spheres and vertical terrain, swiftly tilting through a tunnel of sky, sea, and circuitry.

“I wanted to create something between chaos and harmony – a naturalistic dialogue.”

Tracklist

  1. #1 Archipels


  2. #2 Ciel et Mer


  3. #3 La Rosée de la Montagne


  4. #4 La Dépression de Danakil


  5. #5 Chaos


  6. #6 Argile


  7. #7 Une Année Sans Soleil


  8. #8 Tropique


  9. #9 Les Herbes


  10. #10 Le Complexe Horizontal