Remain Silent
T/I/D
CD album / Brume 10
What differs from other industrial rhythmic projects is that moods are not bathed in sound, everything is juxtaposed and superposed in order to create very rich songs.
This LP is a triptych that allows to retranscribe a strong concept: The author's worldview is summed up in three long songs of more than 20 minutes each.
It is a cycle of life. Tension can be felt everywhere and in everything. It leads the human being to shut himself away in his own world using introversion in order to find rest only through destruction.
This artistic portrait evokes in a very individual way the results of isolation, anger and their consequences over our mind through unpredictable cycles. Fluctuating between futuristic atmospheres and unstoppable rhythmic. This album is a journey through numerous horizons and abysses. It allows the audience to experience something very intense and dive into the heart of existential mechanism.
So as to plunge the auditor completely and without any concession, the three songs are not subdivided into different parts. That way, it remains homogeneous and coherent.
This first ambitious LP marks the promising beginning of Remain Silent into the international electronic industrial scene.
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Wow! This debut-release of RS is an amazing industrial concept, once again confirming the French taste for industrial music. This album is all about a cycle of life, in which tension can be felt everywhere. Tension brings the human being to hide in a very own world of introversion. Feelings of isolation, anger and their possible consequences can emerge out of it! So far so good, but i definitely prefer analyzing the musical content resulting out of this concept. The album contains 3 long enduring pieces that have been each divided into several parts. From start on, i became directly fascinated through the hard and oppressive locomotive cadence. The rhythmic is an essential element in the work of RS and seems to have been inspired of different styles like trance, tribal and of course industrial! The ambient background is worked-out and definitely more than filling the empty spaces hiding behind the furious rhythm. This is the kind of stuff you’ve to play at maximum volume! This was “Tension”! the 2nd cut entitled “Introversion” goes on the same line, but is definitely more diversified. It remains powerful, but than evolves into a pure ambient composition that progressively moves back to pure dark terror. “Destruction” holds on the same receipt. I definitely prefer their harsh and merciless terror side, illustrating that good industrial music is still alive and kicking! It all ends in a kind of creepy Halloween atmosphere that once again reveals the great ambient approach! This is a compact industrial pieces of music, belonging to the cream of the style!
La scène française se porte bien, merci pour elle ! Dans le registre electro-indus, il existe heureusement des structures come Brume Records pour qui la qualité est une condition sine qua non de la réussite, quelle que soit la relativité de celle-ci. Le parisien Remain Silent nous propose ici son premier travail, et il n'est pas exagéré d'admettre que pour un début, voilà un début des plus prometteur ! Scindé en 3 longues plages Tension>Introversion>Destruction passe sans difficulté d'un registre electro-indus rythmé et survitaminé à des ambiances plus froides et lourdes sans jamais ennuyer. Les transitions sont très bien maîtrisées, et il s'avère impossible de zapper tant chaque thème et chaque articulation sonore sont traitées à parts égales, provoquant une dynamique qui maintient l'attention de l'auditeur tout le long. Mélodique, cinématographique (on pense parfois aux terres les plus froides de l'univers de David Lynch), hypnotique (tel un This Morn' Omina plus industriel) à la limite de la transe, T>I>D est une réussite à tous les niveaux. A peine le temps de se perdre dans les méandres des nappes atmosphériques que le martèlement de la rythmique (syncopée, destructurée ou métronimique à l'envi) vous saisit au détour d'une boucle traitresse. Puis de nouveau l'accalmie, étrange, inquiétante, rarement sereine. Les influences de Skinny Puppy, FLA ou encore Nine Inch Nails transparaissent par endroits, sans que la personnalité propre du projet en soit entravée un seul instant. N'attendez plus pour jeter une oreille sur cet excellent opus qui, on ose espérer, engendrera une longue lignée !
Gutsofdarkness.com
Après avoir travaillé au sein de quelques groupes entre 1996 et 2001 lui permettant d'évoluer régulièrement, Yann Souetre, architecte de formation, crée le projet solo Remain Silent et ce premier concept album. Le concept a peut-être été travaillé sérieusement, mais on le trouvera pour notre par un peu prétentieux. Pour résumer, l'album qui dure environ 1h10 est un triptyque illustrant trois phases : Tension, Introversion, et Destruction, celles-ci s'articulant autour d'une grande phrase-slogan : "La tension est partout et en toute chose, forçant l'homme à l'introversion. Mais au final, la destruction est la seule façon de trouver le répit".
Avec cette petite présentation, et sachant que cet album sort chez Brume Records, on a déjà une petite idée de ce qui nous attend. Mais en fait la réalité est un peu plus complexe.
Pas de grosses surprise avec Tension : électro-indus bien fichue avec rythmique efficace, profonde, bien prenante, et des breaks de nappes inquiétantes. Comme pour chaque partie, les 20 minutes passent par plusieurs mouvements, plusieurs ambiances. Celle-ci est logiquement très tendue, et mis à part quelques transitions ambient ou une mélodie de clavier sur des nappes sombres et tournoyantes, les rythmiques sont à l'honneur, linéaires, entêtantes, et encore plus dures quand le tempo se fait plus calme.
Bien que techniquement de très bonne facture, cette première partie se révèle assez classique dans le genre, et la suite s'avère plus intéressante. On est d'abord un peu surpris par le début de Introversion puisque les rythmiques sont encore très présentes, saturées, mais un peu plus posées. Elles font leur apparition à plusieurs reprises, succédant à quelques séquences plus aériennes avec nappes et arpèges. Et puis on vire vers une musique dark-ambient rappelant des musiques de films d'angoisse, de la musique concrète tellement les sons évoquent des éléments précis, avec les passages obligés : choeurs éthérés, cloches qui résonnent et autres sombres nappes.
Quant à la dernière partie, Destruction, il lui a été réservé un traitement bien particulier. Le tiers du morceau est une avalanche de rythmes linéaires, de martèlements qui écrasent tout sur leur passage. Quand elle s'arrête, tout semble mort, il ne reste qu'une nappe cristalline avant le deuxième assaut là aussi parfaitement maîtrisé et imagé : une rythmique plus complexe, une sorte de basse saturée, des glissandos de synthés qui imitent le sifflement des bombes, une batterie qui rappelle des coups de feu, des explosions, des mitrailleuses au loin, et des nappes de synthé qui font penser au ronronnement d'avions. Quand tout est fini il reste un souffle et le cri des oiseaux, une mélodie de piano qui amène la lente montée d'une texture saturée, des roulements de tambour jusqu'à l'explosion finale.
C'est clair, on a beaucoup aimé, l'album se tient, on ne s'ennuie pas, même si le premier tiers de Destruction est peut-être un peu longuet. Mais surtout l'album est varié, riche et maîtrisé. En sortant de là on a un peu l'impression de sortir du cinéma, d'avoir vu une grande fresque épique. Mais on peut aussi la trouve un peu trop "grande". Grandiloquente ?
akunin's idea that "the passion for destruction is also a creative passion" has long been an inspirational concept to me, one whose sentiments are taken up by Remain Silent in their epic T/I/D release, whose liner notes explain "Tension is everywhere and in all things, forcing man into introversion. But in the end destruction is the only way to find respite." Remain Silent's passion has created an impressive creative work.
Comprised of three tracks, each of over twenty minutes in duration, Remain Silent blends together a masterpiece of music that ranges from highly emotional orchestration to pounding rhythms. It contains the best electronic atmospheres of a band like Mlada Fronta with the sensibilities of Tarmvred's Subfusc. I'm not usually one to use comparisons, but have decided to go with it, in part due to the high regard I have for the aforementioned bands, so that Remain Silent compares to them is an intense compliment.
The tracks are subdivided into seven, five and four sections respectively, with each subdivision essentially being a separate piece within the overall whole. In theory, it would have been easier for the listener if the tracks had been separated, but Remain Silent obviously didn't wish this and because this CD is absolutely brilliant, I'm willing to accept their decision.
Brume records are fast becoming an exceptional label, this release is testament to this fact. T/I/D is a behmoth if nothing else, only 3 tracks long, which i feel works well as a mini- concept of the album, each track 20+ minutes in length, increasing in severity as the album progresses, each of the 3 track is sub categorised further into to several parts amounting to acts I, II, & III. the quality of this release is class, standard jewel case packaging distinct artwork and a sound that builds and builds from ambient into percussive industrial into rythmical/power noise waters. Remain silent has some nice elements and the style is not overemphasised making this release proffesional and with a mature sound. Well worth the money.
The packaging and artwork of this new release on the French Brume Records look promising, as usual. Remain Silent is a new electronic act, which has devoted the last two years to create this debut album. It contains almost 70 min. of music, divided over three long tracks. The titles are: 'Tension', 'Introversion' and 'Destruction'. They are not chosen randomly, because they represent the artists worldview:
It is a cycle of life. Tension can be felt everywhere and in everything. It leads the human being to shut himself away in his own world, using introversion in order to find rest only through destruction.
The album directly starts dense and powerful, with overwhelming beats and a rich structure of sounds. It makes me think a little of Mlada Fronta. The sound is kinda futuristic and spacey. Luckily rhythmic parts are alternated with more spheric passages, to give you some breathe. There's also a midtempo, quite ritual percussive part in 'Tension' which I really enjoy. Soon more elaborate and uptempo rhythmic frameworks follow, followed by cool urban moody soundscapes. But no mood or style seems to last longer than 1 or 2 minutes, before you are treated to new sounds and ideas. Actually it seems like a dozen different tracks are all incorporated in one superstructure. From rhythmic industrial to heavy breakcore, from high-tech ambient to atmospheric rituals, this is a breath-taking and exhausting trip.
Funprox
Après Iszoloscope, c’est au tour de Remain Silent d’évoquer à sa manière (un triptyque musical fort bien mené) les effets de l’isolement, mais aussi de la colère, et leur influence sur l’esprit, en cycles d’humeurs destructrices, étrangement calmes ou froidement paranoïaques. Traduit en musique électronique industrielle, cela donne un pilonnage auditif en règle, entrecoupé de nappes d’ambiances obscures ou atones, d’agressions bruitistes et de sporadiques mélodies lumineuses ou éthérées, bref de l’electro-indus cyclothymique. Les climats musicaux changeants se font l’expression musicale d’un tempérament glissant, instable comme l’est l’esprit soumis à des tensions omniprésentes et perpétuelles, tiraillé, sollicité et agressé sans cesse. Le calme apparent de certains passages dont la surface n’est troublée d’aucune pulsation n’en est que plus angoissant, surtout qu’il précède toujours un nouveau déchaînement rythmique, construction qui va crescendo tout au long de l’album à l’aide de trames qui se multiplient jusqu’à devenir une glue sonore épaisse où s’empêtre l’auditeur, reflet d’obsessions solipsistes destructrices. Or, c’est ce dernier aspect, destructeur, qui finit par envahir les compositions, car le seul répit, pour Remain Silent, est dans la destruction, d’où la catharsis finale de "Destruction", exutoire rythmique et bruyant aux sonorités agressives, déchaînées et aliénantes.
Pour un premier album voilà un disque sacrément mature, très empathique, bien produit, que je vous recommande chaudement. Vous reprendrez bien un peu d’agression ?
Célia Schneebeli / lefantastique.net
Pari ambitieux que de mettre en musique les trois "actes" qui jalonnent un "cycle de vie" selon Remain Silent (aka Yann Souetre), à savoir la Tension, l'Introversion et enfin la Destruction. Ces trois longs morceaux (environ vingt minutes chacun), eux-mêmes subdivisés mais sans interruption, sont une invitation à s'immerger dans un univers singulier. Univers d'une complexité jouissive pour tout amateur d'indus et d'électro ambient qui choisira d'en être plus qu'un simple témoin. Difficile de ne pas se laisser happer en effet par cette palette de sons, tant les couleurs sont parlantes et les ambiances variées à l'intérieur de chaque phase. Tension est avant tout un déferlement entraînant d'électro tourbillonnante, aux beats rapides même si les sept parties qui le composent offrent quelques respirations bienvenues. Loin d'être un crescendo tout du long, format facile au vu du thème, Remain Silent a préféré jouer la carte de l'alternance intelligente. L'exemple le plus flagrant de cette paradoxale cohérence étant Introversion qui introduit des nappes de dark ambient à cet électro indus souvent dur, sans trop en rajouter dans le pathos. On songera néanmoins à Gridlock ou à Raison d'Etre sur certaines parties (la deuxième et plus particulièrement la cinquième, apnée déchirante de toute beauté), alors que la quatrième, composée avec Bernard Filipetti (de Prime Time Victim Show), renoue avec une rythmique plus dansante voire dub. Sur Destruction, son introduction limite hardcore ne préfigure pas pour autant de la suite, très proche de "L'Eau Rouge" des Young Gods, qui se meut peu à peu en un instrumental Skinny Puppy-esque. À vous de découvrir la fin de cette odyssée humaine fascinante. Car c'est là que se situe le tour de force de ce concept album : rien n'est vraiment prévisible, mais les éléments enfouis, latents, sont amenés avec finesse et l'ensemble est stupéfiant de justesse.
Premonition
Déjà chroniqué au printemps dans sa version démo, le premier album de Remain Silent revient aujourd'hui en deuxième semaine, mais cette fois-ci signé sur le label parisien Brume Records. "Remain Silent parvient à passer de l' ombre à la lumière, des ambiances chtoniennes de l' indus minimal et répétitif aux éclaircies de l' éléctro, souvent au sein d' un même titre" écrivions nous alors, et cet aspect essentiel de Remain Silent demeure au fil des trois longs titres de plus de vingt minutes chacun qui composent T>I>D (pour "Tension, "Introversion" et "Destruction"), et évoluent effectivement lentement vers un massacre annoncé. Ajoutez-y une production en béton qui claque comme jamais, un usage raisonné du silence et de la fureur, une pochette réalisée par Philippe Astolfi de Wired Brain et vous obtiendrez un album d' électro indus expérimentale oublieux des genres et des modes comme on n' en a plus écouté par chez nous depuis bien longtemps. Excellent !
JF Micard / D-Side
Remain Silent, c' est Yann Souetre (ex-Evangeline), nouveau projet français industriel électronique et expérimental. Album segmenté en 3 chapitres de plus de 20 minutes chacun, on y découvre une alchimie parfaite entre violence et ambiance, bloc de rythmes complexes liés à des nappes et des mélodies à couper le souffle. Originellement composé avec l' aide de Bernard Filipetti (Prime Time Victim Show), le format triptyque Tension-Introversion-Destruction peu habituel casse toute norme d' écoute et nous plonge directement dans le monde de son auteur. Brume records découvre une fois de plus un artiste de talent sur la scène française et la chose est qui plus est enregistrée au Millenium Studio (Mlada Fronta) et le superbe design signé Philippe Astolfi (Wired Brain). Un univers auditif à visiter de toute urgence !
Elegy
"Nice surprise for the Parisian Brume Records that prints an innovative and rich of interesting sounds, Remain Silent creates solid avant-garde melodies and intoxicating rhythmic labyrinths. Synthetic explorations subdivided in 3 long tracks: Tension, Introversion and Destruction, for an imaginary and magnetic technological journey with complex dreams and concrete effects. Tribal-technoid rhythms into panoramic breakcore spaces, unexpected and tempting changes of direction, interludes of rumbling sequences, incandescent vibrations and harsh lashes. Kinetic dynamics layered on different ancestral worlds, pass and future in one only virtual tunnel, metamorphosis forged from the metal, sequential mechanical explosions. And then nomadic intuitions between the mirrors of time, in order to generate more reassuring answers and invulnerable symbols. Industrial sound's oracle.
Highly recommended! "
Twilight-zone
«T >I>D». Initiales de «tension», «introversion» et «destruction». Trois mots pour trois pistes, pour une œuvre sortie de manière plus informelle il y a quelques bons mois, avant de trouver un label au nez fin, soit Brume, label français spécialisé dans l’indus. Quoi ? Ce magistral assemblage aurait pu rester dans l’ombre ? Quelle amère injustice pour son auteur, quelle stupide carence pour l’auditeur…Pour un premier CD, Yann Souetre a frappé fort. Être à maturité dès le début, relativement à une scène donnée, n’est l’apanage que d’une élite, et l’intéressé peut se targuer d’en être. Composé des trois pistes mentionnées, elles-mêmes construites de sous-parties, cet album est avant tout destiné à une écoute attentive, pour ne pas dire à l’écoute d’un trait d’un seul. Ce qui ne doit pas empêcher les plus audacieux des DJs de s’emparer de ces sous-parties étant donné leur intérêt intrinsèque !Si l’on s’en tient à la musique strictement, Remain Silent est une entité qui évolue entre indus rythmique et dark ambient, tout en nuances, le tout restant très homogène, imbriqué, cohérent.Je n’ai par contre pour ma part pas trouvé de cassure notable entre les trois pistes, percevant donc plus l’ensemble comme un seul bloc. Une seule unité architecturale pourtant très variée, du dépouillé au complexe. Autre chose, cette musique est très riche en atmosphères ; en émotion aussi… mais le développement des ambiances prime, martiales ou désertiques.Bref, c’est du très bon indus atmosphérique, pas trop ascétique donc susceptible de séduire des tympans assez divers. Ajoutez à cela de beaux graphismes signés Wired Brain (autre entité industrielle hexagonale de haut niveau) pour l’emballage, et vous obtenez un skeud qui NE DOIT PAS passer inaperçu ! Et même s’il est avéré que le successeur de «T > I > D» n’est pas pour tout de suite, la richesse de cette première pierre («opéra-indus» ???) nous ravira pour un sacré bout de temps…
Remain Silent is a fairly new band and this is their official debut on the French label Brume Records. Remain Silent's musical vision is pretty much summed up in the albums three acts:
Act I - Tension
Act II - Introversion
Act III - Destruction
The artist states "It is a cycle of life. Tension is everywhere and in all things, forcing man into introversion. But in the end, destruction is the only way to find respite." Quite a bleak vision but I am sure many of us can relate. Remain Silent invites the listener to venture through these three aspects of our shared humanity.
Act I - Tension, begins the album. Act I plays as one long song though it is divided into parts 1-7. This allows the songs to develop a consistency not disrupted by the silence we are accustomed to between songs. With no interruptions the music has more opportunity to be absorbed and the listener is really asked to commit tot the listening experience. Tension begins and ends with intense almost brutal industrial force. The music is a mechanical animal unleashed through the speakers. If I had to identify it whith a particular animal I would be inclined towards a badger or Tasmanian devil. Throughout Act I the songs excel with fast driving beats that shake the windows in my house with very little volume. Nice! The musical environment is one of complex rhythms and layered harsh electronics driven by throbbing industrial power. The songs are slightly impregnated with symphonic elements. The addition of a symphonic element adds a sense of grandeur to the mechanical beast. The competing elements leave "room" between one another that adds incredible clarity and dimension to the music. Act I is a torrent of true and original agro industrial.
Act II - Introversion, sees Remain silent cool their engine and approach the music at something less than the break neck speed you are treated to in Act I. Introversion is subdivided as well in parts 1-5. The listener is now transported into the realm of introversion. These tracks flirt between dark aggressiveness and a brooding orchestral quality.
Introversion drops the listener drop into the abyss. The roar of the industrial engine feels further away as dark ambience and less aggressive elements dominate the act. Occasionally the industrial beast bares its teeth again but for the most part Act II is more about tumbling down the abyss inside us. But don't despair! Just when the music has led you to the bottom it grants you wings of fire and brings you back into flight. Act II is truly a haunting expedition of introversion.
Act III - Destruction plunges the listener back into the inferno of industrial fury. This time with the boxing gloves off! The music explodes with hostility and fiery rhythms. A joyful punishment of steel and fire is delivered to the listener in the form of hyperactive and destructive industrial soundscapes. The music is brutal and beautifully crafted. The rhythms are again constructed with care and attention. The music is clean and clear even though it incorporates mild noise elements amidst the industrial agony. Act III also delivers it own unique character in the form of a more sinister industrial sound. The sound evolves into a communication of fear and domination, hunter and prey. True elements of destruction. Be ready for it when you decide to listen your way through Act III - Destruction, its consuming.
For a debut release Remain Silent has definitely secured themselves a well deserved spot at the top of modern agro industrial. I highly recommend the release to any Faerie with an interest in dark electronic music. Faeries who may have abandoned the industrial music scene during its commercialization might want to come back for this album. Remain Silent has succeeded in breathing life into rhythmic industrial. Staying true to the genres roots yet evolving its sound into an original offering. Faeries that are intrigued by the darkness and like to flirt with it in music take note as well. And lastly, anyone with an interest in extreme dance music will also want this release. Its driving force will knock you down.
As far as magickal applications go this music would be great accompaniment for intense S&M scenes or other scenes with power exchange themes. Faeries practicing the dark arts might find the release useful for invocation or elaborate curse work. And lastly anyone who loves a good fast and pounding album of intelligent industrial dance! Please enjoy this offering!
Interview conducted by Labella.h1
1)Is your album dedicated to modern time and behaviour, defense reactions of man to outer world?
Where is the place for constructive, positive aspects in cycle of life or chain "Tension-Introversion-Destruction"? You know, life seems quit dark and depressing in such representation.
RS : This representation seems very dark, of course. But this point of view is only an interpretation of life and there' is an infinite number of perceptions. I didn' t want to make another dogma, and I don' t have this pretension. However , in this case, i think that our existence is an accumulation of frustrations and suffering, and joy is only a way to forget all of this. So there is only two choices : accept this and fall into introversion, or refuse (perhaps after a period of introversion) and want to change all of that. But a man can' t change the world, he just can to destruct it: in little proportions in his environment (revolt -individual or collective) or by his own destruction (that means by suicide). I don' t want to make a praise of auto-destruction, but, and it is a fact, there is no other option. A person which stops to dream, will become mad (another form of introversion) or will want to die. Thus, most of us are introverted with imaginary worlds or phantasms. And like that, we can be happy, but this happiness is only an illusion and if we stop to dream, if there is only reality, so there is only suffering. I think it is important to be conscious of this, accept that our joy is an illusion, and do the most of possible to protect it. Personally i' m not a sad person..
2)You chosed for _expression of your emotions and visions powerful and emotional industrial rhythmic sounds. Is it perfect choice for you? What does attract you in instrumental industrial music and what possibilities does it open for musician like you?
RS : I think that industrial music is one of the most interesting style. You can experiment a lot of things and , in the meantime, create very attractive compositions. Moreover it is possible to ad an emotional dimension, but of course this possibility is rarely used, perhaps because for the most of compositors industrial music must be cold and brutal. I think it' s one of the weakness of this style today. Industrial can evolve with the ad of melodies, in combining fury and sensitivity, the noise and the emotion. I think this is my way to compose and make music. Industrial music is especially a superposition of sequences and sound, but at the beginning my first compositions were done with MIDI material, that means with a keyboard at the center of the process and so consequently it was very melodic. Now my music is influenced by that, and I can' t do something without melodies. Of course Industrial music is one of the most
powerfull sound of today, and I think it is one of the most efficient way to do something intense.
3)Should we consider "T/I/D" a concept album? How long did you work on it and what was the most difficult for you during its recording? Did you easily find the sound of REMAIN SILENT?
RS : Yes T/I/D is a concept album. Not only because there is a representation of life, but also because its structure is very particular. There is only three tracks, and each of them is a combination of songs. This structure was very difficult to arrange, and this was the hardest in this work (transitions between the different parts, coherence etc.). I ' ve worked about three months on the whole composition (full-time), and the sound came very easily with the use of a lot of material in a specific way.
4)I can't say that your music is simply danceable or for listening at home place only. From this point it's problematical to classify your sound. It combines elements from power rhythmic noise, electro-industrial and ambient and can work good in different situations (especially on concerts i think). Can you tell us about your musical influences and how did you try to interpret existing trends and sounds of industrial scene?
RS : My musical influences are innumerable (electronic, rock, classical etc..), but the ones that influenced the most the composition of this album were the industrial sound of power noise with groups as imminent starvation, mlada fronta, orphx, and in another side by the elaborate electronic Canadian sound with groups as Front line assembly, numb or Skinny puppy. T/I/D regroups a lot of elements of the sound of those bands. I don' t think that I am an innovator but only someone who want to make music with the sound of the band I like. But usually, the real innovation is very
rare in music or other forms of _expression. There is only an inspiration influenced by a lot of sources, and more there is influences, more the result will be interesting and creative. To summarize, I think there is no true creation, whatever you do.
5)Your album is triptych: "Tension", "Introversion" and "Destruction". Every song has definite number of parts inside. Why didn't you use standard order of separate tracks (the final number would be 17)? Did you want that people would listen to your music without pressing the button "Skip" or there is other reason?
RS : Yes, this is it. I wanted to force people to immerse themselves into the music, and change this appalling habit to do short compositions as songs or popular music. The music is not only a good of consummation, but it can also be a place for travels through others horizons and atmospheres. This point of view is very influenced by old albums like the ones of Tangerine
dream and Mike Oldfield in the 70's where the tracks had a duration of more than 15 minutes. In this case those works were an invitation for travelling into other places.
6)Will you agree that music is reflection of its author? How do you think what the music of REMAIN
SILENT can tell us about your person?
RS :I' am not agree with that. You can be a looser in life and make a great music. You will learn nothing on me trough my music, but only my sensitivity and my emotions, and all of that can be interpreted in a lot of different ways.
7)Is cinema one of the sources of inspiration for you?
By listening to REMAIN SILENT music we make a kind of trip through numerous futuristic places, horizons and dark abysses. Some of such places already exist in sci-fi movies, don't you think so?
RS : Yes, I am a big fan of Sci-fi ! I' ve always loved futuristic atmospheres and sounds. But above all, my childhood was traumatised by the visual aspect of Sci-fi, by movies like star-wars or alien (the ship in this movie -the Nostromo- is a master work !), but also of course by the classical blade runner (the towers of the Tyrell corporation). Like many other artists, i like the dark Sci-fi, perhaps because this is one of the most dramatic and impressive design ever made by man.
8)As I understand "T/I/D" is your debut album? Did you easily convince Gwenn of Brume Records by your music? How do you plan to develope REMAIN SILENT style on future releases?
RS :Yes this my debut album, but I' have done a lot of composition the years before (I started to make music since 1994). I've worked with a lot of singers but there was always a constraint to finish the work. I was very frustrated, since the day I meet Bernard filipetti (Prime time victim show). We done together a lot of instrumental compositions, and choose the name of Remain silent for our group. But Bernard couldn' t continue because of a new professional work. One year after that I decide to work again on the project but in an personally way, and with new compositions (I' ve
kept only one song of the work with Benrard). After the composition T/I/D, I send demos to all of the
labels I knew. Gwenn found this work interesting and decided to publish it. I am very grateful.
9)Are there any things (sounds, cliches, image links) which you try to avoide writing REMAIN SILENT music? Do you prefer to be a part of electro-industrial scene or independent from styles/scenes artist?
RS : Yes I avoid to be a dancefloor project with 458641,5 time the same rythm and sound along the album lol !. I think that some bands really don' t have any imagination (especially in the future pop .). But i like the most of the artists in the instrumental industrial scene, i respect them and their works, even if i don' t like it, because i know how it is difficult to do entire albums and have inspiration in this style, and how it is hard to survive in this too little scene. I am glad to be one of the actor of this scene.
10)Thanks a lot for interview. My final question is: are there any artist or band which track you would like to remix?
RS : Yes ! : Front line assembly (mortal, fatalist), Numb (effigy) or Skinny puppy (worlock) !!!! I' am praying every day for that ! lol !

