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In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni

by Sun Stabbed

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LP limited to 300 copies
Includes two postcards.

This LP shows the band doing their improv feedback guitar drone in a more precise way than before. Of course it’s still related to NZ music : Surface of the Earth, The Dead C and all guitars projects from there, but also to guitar noise minimalism from the US or Eliane Radigue.

You can find other tracks from the same session and released as a cassette by Ikuisuus here : ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/riverrun

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Some Reviews :

"The palindrome seems increasingly to be the only literary trope that can convey the insanity of modern life. As we circle ever closer to the global plug hole, the title of this album - taken from Guy Debord’s final film - is a Latin joke that likens us to moths attracted to a flame, circling in darkness and consumed by fire. This is a detournement whose time has well and truly come, and the opening salvo of this record is a siren-like wail of feedback that immediately conveys the feeling of global emergency. That this record also tips its hat to the glacial noise guitar of those antipodean cosmonauts Surface Of The Earth merely adds to the underlying frisson of ecological catastrophe.
At this juncture I should make a statement of interest. This French duo, here presenting their second self-released album, took their name from a Dead C record, but their reference points are firmly in the 1990’s second wave of New Zealand guitar explorers - RST, Thela and K Group. Their stock in trade is the slow unwinding of feedback, transitioning imperceptibly through harmonic steps, beating against itself in slow swells and recessions of howling stasis. But always gauzy, not gutsy ; elegiac rather than agressive. This is a lament for a truly human project that is being crushed beneath the juggernaut wheels of spectacle.
Thierry Monnier and Pierre Faure, the duo that comprise Sun Stabbed, can play this long slow game to perfection. Like tantric intercourse, it’s all about holding back, not letting out. Walls of solid guitar move in stately hieratic dances across paved courtyards laid down when philosophy was still young. The vibe is Popol Vuh for the era of climate emergency, it celebrates the eternity of cosmos but also lays out the incident tape around the scenes of crime : climate change, inequality, fascism. This music is simultaneously geological and provisional, reflective and tocsin-sounding. As the final track "Voilà Donc Une Civilisation Qui Brûle, Chavire Et S’Enfonce Toute Entière" says it, our "Civilisation Is Burning, Capsizing And Sinking Outright". As the band still play on the poop deck, we must ignore these inconvenient facts any longer."
Bruce Russell / The Wire Magazine Issue 446. April 2021

"It has been roughly a decade since this French duo of gnarled guitar enthusiasts last surfaced as Sun Stabbed and I have certainly missed them, though Thierry Monnier and Pierre Faure's similarly excellent La Morte Young project helped fill the void nicely. Aside from the different line-ups, the main difference between the two projects is that this one is kind of a direct homage to some of New Zealand's most iconic purveyors of blacked drones and noisy guitars. While no discussion of that subject would be complete without Campbell Kneale, it is The Dead C and the woefully underheard Surface of the Earth that explicitly provide the most inspiration here. Characteristically, Monnier and Faure are admirably up to the task of continuing that fine tradition, as In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni is a feast of manipulated feedback, burned-out wreckage, and simmering drones. Occasionally it can be eerily beautiful and haunting, but I also like the parts that resemble an onstage brawl between Skullflower and Sunn O))). This is an instant noise/drone guitar classic."
Anthony D'Amico / Brainwashed
www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12636:sun-stabbed-qin-girum-imus-nocte-et-consumimur-igniq&catid=50:sound-bytes&Itemid=140

"Over the years I reviewed quite a few releases by this French label and many of these are in the realm of noise, improvisation and guitar, usually in combination with each other. From Sun Stabbed I reviewed some previous releases (Vital Weekly 637, 773 and 1095) and now the duo of Pierre Faure and Thierry Monnier return with a massive new album. They are armed with "guitars, effects, amps" and deliver three long pieces, with long titles. 'Le Soleil Couchant De Cette Cite Laissait Quelques Lueurs' takes up all the first side, while 'La sensation de l'écoulement du temps' and 'Voilà Donc Une Civilisation Qui Brûle, Chavire Et S'enfonce Toute Entière' on the second side. Sun Stabbed plays drone music. That is what it is, and they have their particular take on the genre. I am not a guitarist myself, so what do I know in this particular case of producing drone music? I do, however, think that this is not a case of using a variety of loop pedals and loops sounds, but rather picking up frequencies with guitars and amplifiers in the recording area, maybe using an E-bow, and picking up the sound with a bunch of microphones, using the recording area as a separate element of the music. As said, Doubtful Sounds, deal mostly with noise, and Sun Stabbed is no stranger, but their music is not exclusively about noise. Only 'Voilà Donc Une Civilisation Qui Brûle, Chavire Et S'enfonce Toute Entière' is all about noise; the other two are about atmospheres and these are moody and dark but don't play the harsh card that much. The intensity here is on a different level, one that doesn't slap you in the face but crawls under your skin. Loud music, but it is also to be played loud and fully immerse the listener. It is loud, but not to annoy the listener, but it acts like massive waves washing up on the shores. Cascading drone music! This is simply great stuff. (FdW)"
Vital Weekly issue 1268
www.vitalweekly.net/1268.html

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released November 25, 2020

Pierre Faure : Electric Guitar / Effect / Tape Delay / Amp
Thierry Monnier : Electric Guitar / Effect / Amp

Recorded by Manuel Scalora at Studio A (Grenoble), 3rd and 4th July 2019
Edited and mixed by Manuel Scalora and Sun Stabbed, August - September 2019
Mastered and cut by Fred Aldstadt / Angstrom mastering
Cover photo by Alexis Bérar

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