Eric Quach: guitar & pedals, processing, mixing, arrangements & programming.
Contributors: Aidan Baker (guitar on 'Immobilization'), Meryem Yildiz (vocals on 'The Great Escapist'), Shaun Doré (drums on 'Spaceman').
Influences
current event news; the weather; state of mind; 9-to-5er; exhaustion; depression; philosophy; interpersonal relationships; natural selection; elitism; sadness; lack of endorphine; aloneliness; tragedies; war; epidemies; natural catastrophies; tired sounds; entrapment; anger; hopelessness; collisions; mind warps; honesty; depth; emotions; space travel; atmosphere; stars; darkness; etc.
Sounds Like
agony, drowning in your bathtub, inhaling smoke, being at war, tears dropping like bombs, splicing veins, floating on methane, feeling the ultraviolet rays through ozone...
thisquietarmy is eric quach (destroyalldreamers) is 100% guitar is improvisation is composition is re-interpretation of self-improv is ambient loops is noise is sounds from afar is multi-tracking is etc. recent addition of programmed spliced of snares & bass drums. & vox. live solo experience is currently a lot of gear on the floor, mixers, two separate amps for wide stereo effect & equalizers, with abstract ghostly contrasted monochrome projections whenever available.
++UPCOMING/CURRENT RELEASES++
* Transmissions (April 2009, Alien8 Recordings)
Exclusive soundtrack to Christy Romanick's Very Large Array Photo-book, more info.
lovely ambient improvisations, also, i've checked your blogspot and i do have to say, your paintings are quite lovely, and "burial" is really impressive, i'd definately like to see more of your works, and of course, hear plenty more of thisquietarmy as well
something else but still me has taken control it is the end of me that wants a part of it it is the taste of life arouse the self inside
never know the way all discomfort takes or if it is real without conciuousness no need for some reflection inside of their eyes so unable to know that someone is alive that wants to forget that they all have a mind
i have no thing to say i does not know a thing i gets unknown
because it is so easy to listen to noone no matter that I am able to lie noone will see noone will know if they get sick of all the others around death is calling what is contact noone will tell you where to find the exit
it has some thing to say it always knows the thing it wants to eat but does not want to get known where is noone
Hi There thisquietarmy Your music is great. So you are. Thats why I am big fan of yours thisquietarmy. Keep up the good work. I am proud being your fan. D