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French multi-instrumentalis t and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the name Igorrr for twenty years now\, yet each new record still resounds with a startling fre shness and radical vitality. Steadfastly unclassifiable fifth album AM EN maintains this impact\, blindsiding the listener with a new set of exploratory curveballs and continuing to surprise and unnerve even the mo st attuned enthusiast. Since signing to Metal Blade in 2017\, the Igorrr n ame has expanded from one man's pseudonym to become a full group identity\ , but Gautier remains the project's guiding light and mastermind\, so he's the best man to ask to describe the indescribable. "This album is definit ely darker than its predecessors\, it has such a very weighty and solemn v ibe that has never been reached before in Igorrr\," explains Gautier. "The fact that I recorded a real choir in a church helped this a lot\, but abo ve all there has been very long and meticulous work on the sound and the c hoice of instruments\, and deep experimental research to create a unique s ound design. Of course\, because it&rsquo\;s an Igorrr album\, there are s ome more colorful tracks\, like Blastbeat Falafel\, ADHD etc&hellip\; they contrast very much with the ambient heaviness. I need tracks like these on an album\, it helps to really get through it fully focused\, like a shot of limoncello before the next meal."

Wi th an urge to continually take Igorrr's multifaceted and challenging sound further forward with each release\, Gautier has spent a lot of time culti vating multiple new modes and methods of working since 2020's breathtaking \, critically acclaimed opus Spirituality And Distortion - which even reached number twelve on the official German album chart. "T hings were in development in my studio that I haven&rsquo\;t done before\, waiting for the right moment and opportunity to do it\," he says. "With t his album they found the perfect place. As an example I have in mind the t rack Silence\, which is basically some very heavy harsh noise con trasted with beautiful operatic vocals and an orchestra\, on a very heavy irregular drum beat based on a smooth piano. I have also in mind Ancie nt Sun\, which is more like traditional music\, trip hop vibes with a harp and a theremin\, but with very unusual melodies. To give you a hint of how heavy some parts might be\, I played a piano with an excavator to e nd the track Headbutt. I have always been fascinated and passiona te about pushing boundaries in music\, this album is no exception."

Joining the excavator\, theremin and church choir in the arsenal of instr umentation utilised here for the first time on an Igorrr record\, we can a lso experience the deep haunting wail of the dung-chen - a nine-foot brass horn used in Buddhist ceremonies\, described by Gautier as the "authentic sound of Tibet" - and an "old giant rusty saw\, made originally to cut ro cks"\, pressed into service as a makeshift industrial gong. On the theme o f metallic resonances\, Gautier also experimented with the percussive poss ibilities of a blacksmith's anvil: "I smashed every snare on the track Pure Disproportionate Black And White Nihilism with a giant hammer t o use the tail of the sound and make it more brutal\," he reveals. But it' s not all bad news for the eardrums: "Also for the first time in Igorrr th ere is a little baroque piece of music\, not destroyed by drums and distor tions."

Gautier has always made clear that Igorrr is as much about the influence of Bach and Chopin as it is about Cannibal Corpse\, Aphex Tw in and Meshuggah\, but the source of specific stimuli gets harder to ascer tain as the process is refined. "It&rsquo\;s always difficult for me to kn ow from where the inspiration comes\," he muses. "Music is an expression o f life\, and I would say everything\, even what seems the most insignifica nt thing\, can be a source of inspiration. I would say there hasn&rsquo\;t been one event or one experience that has lead me on a creative process\, it&rsquo\;s more like a cumulation of everything. I love making music\, m y brain processes music all the time. You cannot imagine the amount of alb ums and concertos I create during my sleep. The challenge is more how to s ort these ideas to keep the ones with the best potential\, the ones that I won&rsquo\;t get bored of\, the ones that I really Love\, with a big lett er L."

As you'd expect from such a restlessly evolving and fervidly creative talent\, AMEN is an intrinsically different beast from previous Igorrr releases\, in terms of both the end result and the process that made it. A huge leap forward for the future of the project came with the completion of Gautier's DIY custom-built working space: "After three years of hands in the dust building my personal recording studio\, I could finally apply no technical limitation on my obsession for the perfect sou nd\, I could unleash my madness and spend days and nights in the studio wi thout restriction. I actually went way deeper on ideas on this album." Onc e again\, assisting Gautier in bringing his extraordinary\, iconoclastic i deas to life are an exciting cross-section of new musical guests: "The mus icians here on AMEN are incredible\, the musicianship is just cra zy\," Gautier enthuses. "Also some of the guests I&rsquo\;m personally ver y happy and pleased to have welcomed on this record\, like Scott Ian and T rey Spruance for example."

Mr Spruance's main band Mr Bungle has lo ng been a savvy comparison for Igorrr's ethos of tightly controlled musica l anarchy and gleeful boundary-smashing intensity\, the Californian loons another motivating force for the young Gautier. Like Mr Bungle\, Igorrr st ubbornly repels the sort of generic pigeonholing that certain media and fa ns love to indulge in. Asked if he's yet found any musical descriptors tha t he's happy with\, Gautier has a perfect response: "Do you mean a word th at describes my music? I didn&rsquo\;t see one\, even through the years. U sually when people ask me what kind of music I do\, my answer is «\; yes »\;. That&rsquo\;s the closest I got." He has a similarly shrewd\ , and endearingly heartfelt\, reply to the question about any remaining un fulfilled ambitions\, 20 years into a wholly singular music career. "You k now\, just the fact that my very personal vision of the music has such a b ig impact around the world makes me feel very\, very grateful\, so my ambi tions are already fulfilled."

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