The end is the beginning is the end

Hi Folks,

I am sorry to announce that due to a lot of different circumstances, Samuel Volan and I, have decided that our collaboration could not bring us positive things for the near future. In these kind of cases, people try to put the fault on each other. I do not want to enter in that type of things and just wish things might have been different.

Thanks to those who were there for our last date as a quatuor (Hasselt Play Festival and the Zebra Café show), we had a lot of artistic fun.

So what's next ? Well if you think that aMute could stop because of that you're wrong ! We have decided to assume the situation with a lot of positive energy and try to handle things in a more experimental way.

Lots of people have come to me these past few months telling me that aMute was better before the band type format... A lot of people also told me the oposite. I think we've reached a point where aMute might be a mix of both for the coming shows, the coming year and a coming new album. I personaly feel that new doors are now open for experimentalism, noise and sentiments.

Note that we are open for a new musician in the band, if possible a multi-instrumentist. We are still thinking :-)

The whole band would like to thank Samuel Volan sincerely for his presence in the band during these past 3 years, we've had a lot of joy and stress, happiness and doubts, smiles and questions but most of all we have shared a passion and we deeply wish him a promising future with his other projects.

See you at the Vooruit in Gent on the 24 of november.

Jérôme.

aMute @ Play Festival in Hasselt

aMute will be playing at the notorious Play Festival in Hasselt on september 26 !
Be there friends !


De eerste namen!
Een internationale affiche!
De eerste namen zijn een feit! Van electro en d'n'b tot pop, rock en jazz via dubstep om uiteindelijk te crashen bij het hardere gitaarwerk. Aanschouw de eerste lading heilige namen.

Op vrijdag 25 september (4 podia - electro, d'n'b):
Fagget Fairys, Sound Of Stereo, Friction, Partyharders, Krause, Icicle!!!

Op zaterdag 26 september (6 podia - electronica, gitaren, dubstep, pop, electro):
De Staat, Creature with the Atom Brain, Hitch, aMute, Dat Politics, Banjo or Freakout, Rave Our Souls, Das Glow, Joker, Vermin Twins, Drums of Death, Krakow, HRNS, Poly Quartet, Tomàn, Stad van licht, Dewolff, Lost Department!!! More T.B.A.

Free For You

Back in 2001, my first band in Brussels, A4, splitted. It was due mainly to a stupid drummer who was more into kung fu and cheap philosophy than in music. Hopefully it helped me to start a new project called aMute. With my old AN1X synthetizer, a guitar and a very cheap PC equipped with Samplitude I recorded "Le Temps Passe, J'ai Peur".
Meaning "Times goes by, I am Scared". Yes, I was young and beautiful, yet I was already scared of getting old. It uses a base of text from Albert Camus 's "L'Etranger" (the only book I read).

Anyway today I just moved in another place for the third time in 18 months (yeah my life is a kind of adventure) and ran over this CD and listened to it. I can't deny it made me feel weird but not old ! So things are just fine and I wanted to share that feeling with you. So it is free, it is for you, the people I love, the people I don't know, the people who don't know me. Cheers. HERE Jérôme Deuson.

Some summer news

Hi everyone,

Just some quick thoughts about what's going on with aMute right now...
Well we just restarted rehearsals with the whole band for our gig at Dour Festival.
We also plan to go in the studio in september to work on our new tunes.

By the way, as some of you may have seen I've restarted the solo shows as well and I am currently working on a new album. One of its track will be featured on a compilation by the Japanese label Nothing66 run by Atari Akihito.

We have some new dates coming (Vooruit in November, Liege in January) and are busy trying to set up a European tour for next autumn.

We hope to see you at Dour Festival where we'll be selling our last record for a price that is not even decent in Gambia. Check it out.

Cheers.
Jérôme for aMute.

aMute @ Botanique

aMute plays Dour Festival !

aMute will be playing at Dour Festival this year !

The names are :

PROGRAMMATION
JEUDI
Ghislain Poirier feat. Mc Zulu // Deadmau5 // Joker // Tryo // MSTRKRFT // Santigold // Noisia // Andy C and Mc GQ // Chase & Status and Mc Rage // N-Type // Pascale Picard Band // Dr. Lektroluv // Cocoon // Papa Dada // TC // Qemists live // Spor // Amenra // Steve Aoki // Meshuggah // Audion // The Jim Jones Revue // Isis // Les Fatals Picards // Monotonix // Matthew Herbert dj set // Murdock vs Urban Forms (System-D & Baz) // Daniel Haaksman feat. Deize Tigrona live // Selah Sue solo // The Aggrolites // The Asteroids Galaxy Tour // The Glimmers present Disko Drunkards live // Le Prince Harry // MVSC // Freddy Loco // Saule
VENDREDI
// Sepultura // Rusko live // Boy 8 Bit // The Proxy // Bogdan Raczynski // Diplo // Caravan Palace // Walls Of Jericho // Digitalism dj set // Drop The Lime // Surfing Leons // Animal Collective // Dub Inc // Vive La Fête // Fuck Buttons // Killing Joke // Maluca // Richard Devine // Deerhoof // The Dillinger Escape Plan // Does It Offend You, Yeah? // Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra // Babylon Circus // St. Vincent // Mercury Rev // Mad Professor Electronic Dub Show feat. Aisha, Joe Ariwa, Chukki Starr // L-Vis 1990 // African Head Charge // Murphy's Law // Feadz // The Red Chord // Au Revoir Simone // The Rascals // Rinôçérôse // At Least We Try // ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead // Shameboy // Bush Chemists meets The Dubateers // Zone Libre vs. Casey & Hamé - L'Angle Mort feat. Cyril Bilbeaud, Serge Teyssot-Gay [Noir Désir], Marc Sens, Casey, Hamé [La Rumeur] // De Staat // WhoMadeWho // Studio One Rub A Dub Party feat. Lone Ranger, Carlton Livingston & Reggie Stepper // Camping Sauvach' // Earl 16 & No More Babylon // Karkwa // The Sedan Vault // Cafénéon // Amazigh Kateb // Starving // Sky Larkin
SAMEDI
// The Death Set // IAM // Gong // Dropkick Murphys // Pet Shop Boys // Popof live // Kap Bambino // Black Milk // Alborosie & Sheng Yeng Clan // Dusty Kid // Dj Mitsu The Beats // I'm From Barcelona // Mixhell live // Don Rimini // Dope Skwad // Thunderheist // U-Roy & Pablo Moses // Air Guitar Belgium // Winston McAnuff and the Homegrown band (featuring Matthew McAnuff) // Craze and Klever on 4 turntables // All Shall Perish // Malibu Stacy // Danakil // Sebastien Tellier // Roots Manuva // Djedjotronic // Comeback Kid // Fakkelbrigade feat. Rico & Sticks (ex-Opgezwolle), Typhoon, James en producer A.R.T. // 65daysofstatic // Gojira // Late Of The Pier // Luke Slater's Planetary Assault Systems live // Surge Of Fury // O'Death // Lionheart // Arbouretum // Chinese Man live // Cro-Mags // Stijn // Jazzanova live feat. Paul Randolph // The Gaslight Anthem // I Like Trains // Exile & Dj day // The Dodos // Bitty McLean with Sly & Robbie (Taxi Gang) // Arsenal // Dr Voy
DIMANCHE
// Aphex Twin + Hecker // 5 elements of Hip Hop feat. MixMaster Mike [Beastie Boys], Muggs [Cypress Hill], DJ JS-1 [Rock Steady Crew], Mr Wiggles [Rock Steady Crew] & Rahzel [The Roots] // Venetian Snares // Crystal Castles // Assassin // Kery James // Scylla // Israel Vibration // Psy4 de la Rime // Missill dj set // Caribou // Buju Banton // De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig // Jamie Lidell // Soldout // The Horrors // Bob Log III // Petula Clarck // Anthony B // Rolo Tomassi // Huoratron // Medine // An Albatross // Boss Hog // Heideroosjes // Mr. Vegas & The Thugz Band // The Experimental Tropic Blues Band // Naïve New Beaters // DAT politics // Stuck in the Sound // Alpha 2.1 // Tim Exile // La Swija // Les Wampas // The Hickey Underworld // Wash Out Test // Madensuyu // Rod Taylor + Bob Wasa + Positive Roots Band live // Sleepy Sun // Volt Selector // The Night Marchers // Amazing Baby

aMute just signed at Quiet Concerts

Hi fellows,

It's been a while but everything is fine.
We just played a lot of shows in Belgium (solo and band) and we had a nice news this morning as we'll be working with Quiet Concerts booking (Daniel Johnston, LalaLover, John Parish, Milow...) in the future.
We hope it will open some doors to us.

Info here

Thank you.
Merci à tous ceux présents à la Rotonde du Botanique.
Thanks to all of those we were there at Botanique.

aMute 21 Mars 2009 - Botanique Rotonde

The very first review of the album

AMUTE – infernal heights for a drama

(CD – still)



Since the last time I have heard about Amute – which was in 2006 when the wonderful “sea horse limbo” had been released on intr_version – a lot has changed in the world of Jerome Deuson. Most of all, his hence solo-project Amute has turned into a full fledged band, able to fill the ever evolving and introspective visions fo Deuson with ferve and live. This has resulted most effectively in a broader, fuller and bigger sound. There are tight riffs and arrangements that are dense and encompassing. It is way closer to rock than to their roots of indietronica, or whatever that kind of introspective songwriting on a computer was called back then. Actually, in some parts it is quite close to the kind of emotional folksinging that Connor Oberst so perfectly perfected.

Which already hints to the diversity of the songs on this wonderful collection of popmusic, a range of emotions that goes from wild passion to lonesome melancholy. There is even a lonely trombone here and there and some twang guitar. Don’t worry, the computer still provides his tweeps and bleeps from time to time or fills niches with little hums, buzzes and noises, but the main core of the arrangement is way more basic and down to earth than ever before. The slowly winding and ever so lonely “Begone” is a perfect example. It trots along in a rhythm that carries the heartache in its steps, until finally a guitar schooled on various solos by Canada’s biggest guitar playing son steps in to blow out the melancholy and despair with a few kilowatts of amplification. An analogue thing is true for “No other man”.

All in all “infernal heights for a drama” is a very modern record that traces its roots back to centuries of music. It is all paying tribute to Deuson’s evolution as a songwrite and musicfan. For instance when they contradict various parts structurally, like grabbing deeply into the electronica soundscape repertoire of some years ago and then introducing a rolling bass-line over which they do some chorus singing, as somewhere towards the end of “enclosed movements / inner you”, then you can either count the sources on your fingers of lean back wherever you are start listening closely to each nuance and each little bitpart of the mix. The band will soon be back into pop music mode. And then add a mutated surf guitar to play the next solo.

It is also nice to see some half-forgotten names (my fault!) on the list of contributers, especially Mitchell Akiyama, who plays some reworked piano on “when things are not going right” and whose “if night is a weed…” album still makes for some nice late night listening after all these years. With Bryce Kushnier from Vitaminsforyou there is another contributor from the old intr_version connection on here, but who is probably better known for his work with Do Make Say Think (on constellation records.) It is some kind of the old Canada connection at work here.
Desolate hymns about broken hearts and lost opportunites, played by a broken instrument electronica band in full instrumental outfit, that is the core of “infernal heights for a drama”. What kind of drama? I still have no idea, but it is in your head mostly anyway.

www.stilll.org
02/2009

FROM WWW.MONOCHROM.AT

Some real news

Hi everyone,

So the band is really busy right now trying to contact the whole world about "Infernal Heights For A Drama". Things are going fine and dates are coming.

So we'd like to remind you that we play at La Rotonde in Brussels (Botanique), the price is 5€ and there's only one band : aMute ! To book your place.

We'll be playing at another big place in april but we cannot tell you about it before the date in Botanique.

We'll be at the Pac Rock Festival in May and in Paris on April 7th.

I also just did a cover version of Thot's Ortie single


Cheers my friends.
Jérôme.