EPK – Milanku – À l’aube (2023) (Folivora)

EPK – Milanku – À l’aube (2023) (Folivora)

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For fans of Cult of Luna, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Isis, Neurosis, Yoo Doo Right

“After a long hiatus, we are excited to perform this new album live. We have maintained our core sound but we have grown immensely musically, I mean we had lots of time on our hands…and this album basically represents an offering to our fans who have been waiting for new music from us.” – Milanku

Album Title: À l’aube
Release Date: March 31, 2023
Label: FOLIVORA (Canada), D7i (Canada/USA), Moment of Collapse (EU)
Distribution: Believe Digital

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“The slowness of the post-hardcore of Milanku or the erasure of the world.” – Weirdsound.net

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Album Title: À l’aube
Release Date: March 31, 2023
Label: FOLIVORA (Canada), D7i (Canada/USA), Moment of Collapse (EU)
Distribution: Believe Digital

Track Listing:
1. À l’aube; de leurs silences – 10:54
2. À l’aube; il sera déjà trop tard – 8:04
3. À l’aube; prêchant la mauvaise nouvelle – 5:43
4. À l’aube; de la grande tristesse – 4:55
5. À l’aube; nous serons disparu – 8:41
Album Length: 38:16

Album Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: MILANKU
• All songs written by: MILANKU
• Produced by: GUILLAUME CHIASSON ET MILANKU
• Mixed by: GUILLAUME CHIASSON
• Mastered by:
• Album Artwork by: FRANÇOIS LEMIEUX
• Member of SOCAN
• Music is Canadian Content (MAPL)

Album Recording and Live Lineup:
François Lemieux (Guitare, Synthétiseur)
Carl Ruest (Guitare, Voix)
Guillaume Chamberland (Basse, Voix)
Guillaume Boudreau-Monty (Drum)
Jean-François Bourbonnais (Guitare)

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The album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

One whole, poignant, intense. Heavily influenced by the emotions of despair and loneliness brought on by the pandemic.

The lyrics of Milanku are written in the form of text per album. Once the music is composed, the lyrics are composed. The lyrics and the flow are inspired by the music and the feeling it gives us inside. We are inspired by Milan Kundera and more precisely on his works of ”La lenteur” and ”La plaisanterie”. Once the text of the album is composed, the sentences are divided from one song to the other of the album. The music, the lyrics as well as the live performances of the group are very much influenced by the daily life of each one where we are plunged in a reality where everything goes very fast.

Most of the skeleton of the album was built before the pandemic. After a few months of downtime, we refined and modified the songs and recorded the songs in two studio sessions. The pandemic had an impact on the sound of all the songs on the album. Without the pandemic, the result of the album would not be the same at all. The album sounds like a whole, a maturity of the band and a story that is told from the first note to the last.

Track by track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

If you take the songs titles, they form a poem that describes the process of the story:
 -Track 1 – first single as well
À l’aube; de leurs silences  = In the dawn; of their silences
A slow post rock piece full of angst.

-Track 2
À l’aube; il sera déjà trop tard = At dawn, it will already be too late
A heavier track that tries to convey the feeling of loss of control.

-Track 3
À l’aube; prêchant la mauvaise nouvelle = At dawn; preaching the bad news
The idea behind this track was about the bombardment of information during the pandemic.

-Track 4

À l’aube; de la grande tristesse = At the dawn; of great sadness
This songs portrays the loneliness, the suicides, the violence against women that our isolation created.

-Track 5 – second single- featuring Erika Angell from Thus Owls
À l’aube; nous serons disparus = At dawn, we will be gone
The most musically emotional track of the album, this song starts of as a sweet guitar melody and slowly turns into a storm featuring Erika’s voice as the grand priestess of this storm that everyone is trying to escape. The lyrics in Swedish and French make it even more mystical.

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BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:

1. The band is very influenced by writer Milan Kundera

2. All the visuals and graphics concepts are created by the band, that includes videos, posters, album graphics, etc.

3. Although their music is a little on the sad side, the band is actually very funny and charming.

Photo Credit – Nick Shaw

If Milanku draws its origins from the work of Milan Kundera, the soundtrack is definitely more on the side of the thundering density of the being than of its “unbearable lightness”, galvanized by the Czech author.

From the start, Milanku hammers out its brutal character, infused with melancholy, even dystopia, and standing straight upright on the wire: defiant, shouting, and inspired.

Mesmerized by the warrior’s rage, flayed by its own doldrums, the quartet relies on pared-down arrangements and an oft-staged vocal presence, harmonizing like an instrument, and howling at the big time, but plastered with a disquieting sense of dilettante.

At the heart of the enterprise, tearing off the peels of flapping skins, we explore the state of affairs of the contemporary genre, tragic, desolate, where any notion of common sense seems diffuse in the amalgam of trompe-l’oeil. The texts are meditative, inquisitive and the observations that emanate from them, weep and persist in trying to make sense of it, through its ever-growing losses of illusion.

With four full-length releases behind them, both in Canada (D7I Records, Désordre Ordonné, L’oeil du Tigre), and abroad (Tokyo Jupiter Records (Japan), Moments of Collapse (Germany), Replenish Records (USA), GS production records (Russia), We are Grain of Sand (Russia) Alerta-Antifascista, Milanku presents today À l’aube (Folivora, 2023), a five-track burn that breathes new life into a caste of disenfranchised people, imbued with a disarming lucidity, and gives itself a framework and a voice to pull its head out of the swamp.

International recognition

The band has been affiliated with several; indie labels and distributors over the years, namely: in Canada (D7I Records, Désordre Ordonné, L’oeil du Tigre), Jupiter Records (Japan), Moments of Collapse (Germany), Replenish Records (USA), GS production records (Russia), We are Grain of Sand (Russia) as well as Alerta-Antifascista (Germany).

In 2016, the band will continue to tour Europe, visiting the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria.

The band’s albums have been consistently recognized at the GAMIQ since 2013 in addition to jumping on a plethora of specialized year-end lists around the globe.

Milanku is:
François Lemieux (Guitare, Synthétiseur)
Carl Ruest (Guitare, Voix)
Guillaume Chamberland (Basse, Voix)
Guillaume Boudreau-Monty (Drum)
Jean-François Bourbonnais (Guitare)