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Everything is the picture...

2012-01-26T02:17:00.000-08:00

As 2011 ends...

2011-12-06T01:50:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

Just a few lines to tell you that I'll be playing the Botanique again on the 4th of February 2012. I wanted to rejoin a sort of band but neither the budget nor the time were allowing me to do so. Anyway I'll play solo.

I composed a new track which is part of a future album, it is available here and published on Thot's front man new label. It is called Orchidacea as an hommage to a certain person.

I'll be off the music world for more than a month too and I'll be living/working in Guadeloupe. 2011 was just like every other years for me : messy, fun and sometimes really boring and sad. I wish you all the best.

Cheers. Jay.

Amute will be live at the Botanique ! Celebrating the 5th birthday of Humpty Dumpty Records and the release of Black Diamond Blues !

2011-10-17T04:25:00.001-07:00

amute live @ Le Frigo In Mons

2011-08-15T04:36:00.000-07:00

Hands on the master. Black Diamond Blues

2011-08-03T09:38:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,

So that's it folks, the end of a long process ! The new amute album, titled "Black Diamond Blues" is ready to leave my sweet home and maybe find yours soon as it goes in production tomorrow. The mastering is done, the cover is done, the website is done, the blog has a new design, I am working too and I am actually rehearsing like hell for the future shows (if they come). And as life is full of ups and downs let me tell you that I am already writting the follow up (well it's the early early stage, I just rearranged the studio).

I'm looking for shows through out Europe from now on, if you feel like having me play let me just tell you that I don't charge flights (so it's said). I think the future live shows will be a little different than what you used to see from me in the past. Most of them will be unique and a mix of improvisation and written stuff. Heavy is the word. Quiet is the noise.

Cheers, you'll updated soon.

Thanks to all who helped in the process by the way !

aMute's new album out on Humpty Dumpty Records in next september 2011 !

2011-05-19T03:21:00.000-07:00

Hi folks, it seems like I'm surfing on some good vibes lately as my new album is confirmed to be out on the Belgian label Humpty Dumpty Records

What can you wait from it ? Well it's a solo record, it's a deep dark dive into a quite different world than before. It's noisy, strange and was made mostly with guitar amps/noisy keyboards/destroyed voices and no marijuana at all.

As said in the past postings all I can say is that I really wanted to reboot aMute, not only because I wanted to preserve myself from self destruction with the band but also because I feel like in some ways I may have lost the essence of the project while trying to have a recognition as a band. aMute is Jérôme Deuson will always be despite all the love, talent, friendship and creativity my past fellow partners had.

So now comes the mastering/cover art/duplication process.

September here I come ! Cheers folks !

aMute second time nomination at "Les Octaves de la Musique"

2011-05-19T03:08:00.000-07:00

It's with a great pleasure that aMute is nominated in the "electro" category at the next "Octaves de La Musique" which acclaims artists from the french community of Belgium.

Change

2010-11-12T03:07:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone,

During these past few years I've been trying my best in putting everything all together with band mates and relations. Today I feel that there's a kind of change all around me, music isn't quite my cup of tea from time to time, and sometimes, on a day like I feel like playing for hours.

But I am happy to announce that my new record is now 97,8% done. I don't know if it's going to be an aMute album or a Jérôme Deuson one but it's the first solo album since 2006, the name doesn't really matter. So I'll soon be in the always pleasant process of finding a label in these magnificent times where music sells millions of CD's every second ;-)

You'll be updated. All I can tell you is that it is the darkest album I could make for one of the darkest year of my life.

As for the band... well things have changed again. After two guitar players, three drummers, three bass players I thought it could be the right time to stay put for once. So we're thinking of mabe changing the name of the band, no aMute for the band, aMute for the solo, or Jérôme Deuson for the solo... : Who gives a shit ? People prefer to listen to original music of Belgian bands with names starting a "The" than taking the time to read those lines. And I don't blame that.

There's a compilation available here for free with a track I did for Tsukuboshi label where I was asked to use sound banks of Tunisian field recordings.

Check it out.

Unlucky with the weather makes us happy with you anyway.

2010-08-23T06:55:00.000-07:00

So here it is, the Brussels Summer Festival is now over and we had fun though the weather looked like a Tsunami campaign from the sky. Here are a few photoshoots by our friend Bartolomeo La Punzina as a souvenir.

We are currently working on a new album as a band and I can also see that the timing of my new solo album (which will be released under my name actually) is now overpassing 25 minutes ! Work in progress as always but I keep the good vibe.

We'll be performing on next 22nd of January at the Centre Culturel de Jette in Brussels.

Cheers !

See you next time Japan

2010-04-16T04:17:00.001-07:00

Hello to all,

My venue in Japan had to be cancelled two weeks ago for personnal reasons. But anyway, no regrets. The strike of Lufthansa on monday and tuesday wouldn't have allowed me to take off from Brussels and now there's this Icelandic ash cloud coming and all flights are cancelled.
So no regrets and see you next time.

Cheers.

Thee Silver Mont Zion Orchestra + aMute on April 2nd

2010-03-29T04:58:00.000-07:00

We are proud and glad to confirm our show with Thee Silver Mont Zion Orchestra on this coming friday.
Check out this link to book your tickets.

We'll also be playing in Mons on the 7 of April at Le Bateau Ivre.

Oh and yes : why is he always writting in english for french speaking venues ? Well who knows who might be coming :-)

aMute : Nostalgia Tour 2010

2010-03-09T07:07:00.000-08:00

aMute, this saturday. Come back in Brussels.

2010-02-22T03:53:00.000-08:00

magasin 4

hexagen

aMute solo

2010-02-16T07:06:00.000-08:00

I am happy to officialy announce that aMute solo will be playing a serie of shows in the next few months. I am still looking for a show in Nagoya and Kyoto as well as in Vancouver or Chicago. Any help highly welcomed.

April 18th : Japan - Tokyo - "Soup Venue"

May 12th : Canada or USA : available.
May 14th : Canada - Toronto - The Drake Hotel
May 15th : USA - Denver - date confirmed - venue tbc soon (with Off The Sky)
May 19th : USA - New York - Issue Project Room
May 21th : USA - Available - prefered city : Chicago/Philadelphia/Washington

Cheers.

Play for a smile - New band members - New solo tour - New track

2010-02-16T00:17:00.000-08:00

Everything right now reminds me of how mental life becomes fragile after a while... I remember working for Le Bonheur, the best record shop of the world, in the 2000's, listening to Forest Time on a limited 1 track LP edition. The good old days. Days when people used to be fair, at least more than now.

Yes this is my winter time complaint about assholes, loosers, opportunists and fake bullshiters. I dedicate this post to our friend from L'Internationale where we played last saturday in Paris. I dedicate this post to people who think they help musicians by making them play but never give you a smile.

We were invited by the Belgian In Paris (who are, them, really nice people) to play at L'Internationale. They refused to feed one of the crew member (I personnaly asked for a bowl to throw him some food on the ground, sarcastically of course), they almost threw us out of the club because of the Sarkozy Stasi that could have come for the noise, asked to put volume down during soundchecks and so on and so on. Almost no "Hello" and for sure no smiles. Well people of L'Internationale : You're a bunch of pathetic young lads who should burn in hell. I personally take the responsabilty to tell you : FUCK YOU. At least the club was full so we guess that you sold plenty of 4€ plate beers and made money on us (while paying musicians less than 30€ each). Thanks for those being there and sorry for the complaint. But people who think they defend culture by slow paying musicians and treating them like shit are not art promoters but stereotypical loosers. I've played for free, I don't give a fuck about dollars and understood a while ago that I never will, but at least I play for a smile.

So a few nicer news.
There are new band members : Geoffroid Heyne (Drums) and PEb (Bass). Everything is fine and we are having fun.

There will soon be a solo tour. I'll keep you posted with that very soon but I can tell you it's not in Paris and not in New Zealand :). I'll be glad to present a few rushes from my new future solo album due to december.

And as a rush for that solo album you may find one piece of it on the new compilation from a new Japanese label called Nothings66. You can go here

Cheers people and we hope to see you on the 27th of February at Magasin 4.

The end is the beginning is the end

2009-11-07T01:50:00.000-08:00

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

2009-08-11T02:38:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-23T03:46:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-06T03:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-07T05:12:00.002-07:00

aMute plays Dour Festival !

2009-06-03T10:40:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-06T05:39:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-24T02:44:00.001-07:00

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

2009-03-17T08:15:00.000-07:00

The very first review of the album

2009-02-24T02:19:00.001-08:00

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

2009-02-20T06:46:00.000-08:00

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.

Just a 15 days delay

2008-12-23T01:07:00.000-08:00

The album is schedulded for the end of February.
Yes we know, it's not Chinese Democracy but still we try to do things well.

aMute solo act (Jérôme Deuson) at Orangerie du Botanique

2008-11-12T04:20:00.001-08:00

Check this page for information.

Infernal Heights For A Drama

2008-11-12T04:10:00.001-08:00

That's it folks, the aMute album will be called Infernal Heights For A Drama and will be released on Stilll in next February 2009.

During these past few months aMute has really changed in a lot of ways.
We've done pretty shitty tracks at the beginning of the band, we needed to find what we were there for. Now I can easily say that I am proud of the walk we did from there.

Infernal Heights For A Drama is more or less a big story, the story of everyone around us, the story of our pleasures and of our anger. It is a mix between dark folk tronics and rock. Every tracks features vocals and we have the pleasure to welcome a few guests on the Infernal adventure : Robert Toher from APSE, Joseph Costa from L'Altra, Mitchell Akiyama from Désormais, Bryce Kushnier from Do Make Say Think and Vitaminsforyou and Jean Paul Dessy from Musiques Nouvelles.

We hope that we'll be able to overpass the Belgian musical morosity of our time. We hope the album will be welcomed in Belgium and elsewhere. We hope to tour and are already planning a special release party at Le Botanique in early march.

Cheers.

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2008-11-09T03:31:00.000-08:00

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