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MARIE DAVIDSON, the artist based in Montréal (Canada), has announced her new, forthcoming album, which will be released on 14th April by Holodeck Records. This album follows the widely acclaimed ‘Perte d'Identité’ (one of the best albums of 2014, in my humble opinion) and marks a further evolution of this electronic artist in the field of experimental minimal synth music.

MARIE DAVIDSON 's intimate solo work is embodied through a host of vintage analog synthesizers and drum machines that coalesce in synchronized harmony, punctuated by Marie's hypnotic vocal delivery, sung and spoken in both French and English. Davidson's third album ‘Un Autre Voyage’ demonstrates her heightened compositional skill behind a sequencer as well as her singular ability to anesthetize the senses through the documentation of her own serial pattern of experiential growth.

‘Un Autre Voyage’ (translated as "Another Journey") is a collection of songs based solely on true events, providing the listener with an unfiltered primary account of Marie's intrapersonal experiences. This act of self-journalism serves as a psychological cleansing that evokes an authentic sense of warmth and empathy, rendering ‘Un Autre Voyage’ as Davidson's most transparently honest artistic document yet. Through this concerted disclosure, Marie's unique practice of surreal atmospheric composition now shows irrepressible traces of exuberance, displaying a fresh luminosity in her emotive palette.

‘Un Autre Voyage’ bares the immense weight of Davidson's psyche by turning direct experience into song, utilizing her candid self-examination to convey a new found serenity that playfully underlines her otherwise brooding and pensive soundscapes. Marie embraces slower experimental composition on pieces like ‘Kidnap You in the Desert’, ‘Insomnie’, and ‘Perséphone’, while songs like ‘Excès de Vitesse’ and ‘Balade aux USA’ are decidedly upbeat and indicate a broadening complexity in Marie's aesthetic domain. Vocal, guitar, and production contributions from husband and ESSAIE PAS band mate Pierre Guerineau establish a communicative interface that allows for the full articulation and realization of Davidson's inner-dialogues.

As her exposure steadily increases, Marie continues to advance her musical skill in the studio as well as on stage, taking her captivating live show on several extensive international tours as copies of her records and tapes quickly disappear. ‘Un Autre Voyage’ is undoubtedly a snap shot of Davidson's current state of expansion but marks an intensified effort to progressively unfold a more complete and absolute manifest of herself. Davidson has constructed an intransigently potent assembly of real life expositions that are coarse and organic, yet undeniably nuanced and refined.

Release: 14 April 2015
Pre-order ‘Un Autre Voyage’: https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/un-autre-voyage-hd033
Order ‘Perte d'Identité’: https://weyrdsonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/perte-didentit
To watch the video of ‘Balade Aux USA’: http://vimeo.com/112065630

Tracklist
01. Boulevard Taschereau
02. Excès de vitesse
03. Kidnap You in the Desert
04. Insomnie
05. Balade aux USA 06:16
06. Perséphone



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