BIG|BRAVE, a trio made up of guitarist and singer Robin Wattie, guitarist Mathieu Ball and drummer Tasy Hudson, signed one of the most powerful bills to come from Montreal this year. Nature Morte is an album of extreme ambiances: deep incantations flown over by drones prone to the most violent guitaristic saturations and the heaviest hammerings, but also melodies calmed at the end of an eruption. The approach is based on robust and minimalist frameworks, very simple rhythmically and harmonically. All the complexity is found in the textures, the lava flows, and the halos of fire. Robin Wattie’s voice is certainly inhabited by wild spirits but also by subtle spirits that flesh out its perception. The connections with Chelsea Wolfe and Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) are very tempting, but no, we will not go any further because there are so many spaces of freedom to conquer in this territory conducive to a heavy trance.
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