Thisquietarmy x Away is the collaborative sci-fi drone metal duo project comprised of guitarist Eric Quach (thisquietarmy) and drummer Michel “Away” Langevin of Canadian metal legends Voïvod. The unlikely duo crossed paths in their hometown of Montreal, when they both performed respective solo sets at the Drone Activity In Progress event curated by Red Bull Music Academy in 2016 and at Suoni Per Il Popolo festival in 2018.

This unexpected 3rd instalment of the duo’s output is still made up from material recorded during that same 2019 session, which needed a little more work than its almost-straight-out-of-the-box double album predecessor. With additional bass and brass tracks provided by Charles Bussières and Reüel Ordoñez, members of TQA’s live full-band (along with sound engineer, drummer and synth player Marc-Olivier Germain) for the “The Body and the Earth” 2018 EUtour, Quach could f inally piece the remnants of the tracks together as a bold and unexpectedcollection of psychedelia fusion and freakout music, with elements of kosmische Musik, prog and experimental free jazz mixed into the duo’s enthralling brand of space-rock improvisation.