Amute won "best electronic" at the 9th Octaves de la Musique of Belgium

Thanks.
Hope you're well.

Everything is the picture...

As 2011 ends...

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 !

amute live @ Le Frigo In Mons

Hands on the master. Black Diamond Blues

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 !

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"

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

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.

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

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

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

aMute, this saturday. Come back in Brussels.

 

magasin 4

hexagen

aMute solo

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

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

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.