09/10/2026
Today we release Nouveaux Contes, the debut full-length album by Montréal-based artist Dumb Chamber, on Éditions Appærent.
As a longtime member of numerous projects, including the group Salon Privé and the collective label Bete, Montréal based musician Dumb Chamber now presents his debut solo-album, Nouveaux Contes. Working in a neoclassical tradition with a sample and sequence-based approach, Nouveaux Contes is temporally and mechanically opaque. At once orchestral, soupy, accelerated, fevered, meandering from background to squarely foregrounded, lush, and nocturnal, this album is infused with a sense of melodrama and a narrative impulse. Characters populate Dumb Chamber’s work and despite pervasive abstraction, the cumulative effect is one of following familiar personnages, at times accompanied and other times solitary, through unfamiliar spaces.
Tracklist
01. Tropical Solution [03:33]
02. Fromagism [04:48]
03. Le jardin [05:14]
04. Le coffre [01:20]
05. Faux-fond [05:48]
06. Come See Why [04:45]
07. Nightsnack [04:39]
08. Le plumeau [00:23]
09. Perfume People [01:50]
10. Very Small Ensemble [03:00]
11. Distracted For a Minute [00:41]
12. Ancestral Manoeuvre [02:01]
Composed, performed and produced by Élie B. Faubert
Additional production and arrangements by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Artwork and design by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Photos by Madison Dinelle and Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Nouveaux Contes is out now digitally and on limited edition CD through Éditions Appærent.
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