For those not in the know, the singular musical vision of Érick d’Orion is apparent in Mes fantômes, recorded live in concert following an artist’s residency at Chicoutimi’s Centre d’expérimentation musicale (CEM).

“The ghost is a metaphor for the influences — conscious or unconscious, chosen, or imposed — that haunt all creativity,” Érick says. “Recognizing my influences is far less a form of plunder or appropriation, and more a way of honoring them and acknowledging that no creativity arises independently. My ghosts are my companions, my adversaries, my guides.”

From bludgeoning, leaden slabs of sound to droning, distorted textures to free jazz spontaneity, d’Orion’s unhinged musical fusion highlights the virtuosity of his collaborators.

A physical album purchase includes a digital version of the album, and the bonus track Traces.

1. Spectres [20:22]
2. Ectoplasme [10:55]
3. Traces (Bonus Track) [16:58]

With a career shaped by major influences - such as Sun Ra, free jazz, the avant-garde, cinema, and literature - Érick opens his new trilogy on Spectres, the, at first, heavily laden, mechanically layered, latterly playful, veritably impish, mysteriously mischievous, before culminating on an industrial tip that strains its harmonic nature to the point of being melodious, and then we are brought forth the hard-edged, Eastern (perhaps, at times, even Latin) imbibed notes and fervently driven musical rhythms that make up the propellent, and come its culmination, head first into a viciously gnarly spiral, Ectoplasme, the threesome ending on the bonus track Traces; a track that encapsulates all the sounds and noises that Érick d’Orion has grown to love and wish to blend into his music through life. It is a work of musical art that forges forward, takes no prisoners, and envelops everything from experimental and free jazz, metal tension to sonically charged, and even spatial and avant-garde strokes within its brilliant construction.

Official Purchase Link

www.erickdorion.com