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Topic: Michel's solo album???
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VoivodFan
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posted December 23, 2002 00:21
I don't know if it's old. I know that Stefan Doroschuk's label website says "Other projects include the first solo album by Michel Langevin, from the cybergoth heros, VOIVOD. This album is scheduled to be released in the summer/fall of 2003." Who knows if that's happening or not, you could email and ask - http://www.cloud9records.com/about.html Unfortunately the site also says that "for 2003 will be a re-release of the Men Without Hats smash hit, Safety Dance, but this time with added hip-hop, drum & bass... mixes, as well as a new version by Men Without Hats." I know MWoH think they originated synth-pop (I'm certain Joy Division were influenced by them *sarcasm*) but do they have to keep punishing the Canadian public with videos of medieval dwarves dancing around maypoles to their horrible music??? Since we're on the topic of Away's other projects, here's a link to something that Michel "Mick Mustang" Langevin participated in http://www.cloud9records.com/mpg.html with a couple of audio links. And here's a pic of Away playing with Ivan (MWoH) & Mitsou ('member 'bye bye mon cowboy' Mitsou? I briefly worked at a record store where she came to do an in-store during the *cough* height of her musical career and the manager was supposed to take her out for lunch. But he didn't want to. And neither did anyone else. lol. She also, unfortunately, re-released dance mixes of her hits this year. Why she thought remixes of pop from the late 80's were marketable is beyond me...) Luckily Away is hard to make out in the pic so he can always claim it's not really him.
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VoivodFan
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posted December 23, 2002 13:22
Here's a not so lame side project that features Away on drums too! Anybody heard of Jim Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus? Got this from Trouser Press quote: Pursuing Thaw's cinematic byway, Steroid Maximus is Thirlwell's instrumental project of would-be film scores. The brassy, garishly atmospheric music on Quilombo and Gondwanaland (which have a couple of tracks in common) is stunning in its mischievous diversion of traditional concepts, from the ominously brilliant titles ("Phantom Miscarriage," "Ogro," "The Trojan Hearse," "The Smother Brother") to the nervy instrumental invention. Employing a slightly more restrained dynamic range than usual, Thirlwell delves into Wagnerian orchestration, exotic ethnic elements, blaring big-band swing, continental drift and found-sound constructions to deliver extraordinarily convincing and resonant accompaniments to whatever he's seeing in his grotesque imagination. First rate. Both records feature Lucy Hamilton, Raymond Watts and Voivod drummer Michael "Away" Langevin. Quilombo also employs Spoiler's Lin Culbertson and Hahn Rowe, while Gondwanaland finds equally unspecified uses for Roli Mosimann and Don Fleming.
Now this I need to have! Both albums were released around 1991-92 and seem to be now out of print.
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