Premiere: Organ Mood's 'Comme si nous étions déjà libres' Will Soundtrack Your Existence

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Organ Mood know a thing or two about matching sounds to situations. The duo of Christophe Lamarche and Mathieu Jacques created Organ Mood in 2008 in their hometown of Sherbrooke, Quebec, with the intention of creating experiences with their music. Their live shows involve them displaying art on overhead projectors while playing on homemade instruments and analog synths, creating an immersive environment for the audience. Their new album, Comme si nous étions déjà libres (English translation: As if we were already free) proves to be another extension of this ambient wave, and the book containing the images that the duo plans on projecting will be made available along with the album on June 9, when it will surely become the soundtrack to the lives of many.

At this point, Organ Mood are pros when it comes to creating soundtracks, as the band recently won a Jutra Award (think Quebec's version of the Oscars) for the best original soundtrack to the film You're Sleeping, Nicole. When asked by Noisey how the process differs for making music for an album as opposed to a movie soundtrack, Christophe Lamarche had this to say:

"Although composing for a movie and for live acetate projections seems similar, they are somehow pretty different. A movie has limited duration, it has some 'needs' to be fulfilled, certain scenes need to be followed strictly or loosely. When composing for the overhead projections that Mathieu does, the progression and the duration of a song will be intended to sound open, loose and never rushed. The duration of each song could oscillate between 5 and 11 minutes depending on the version. But the fact that both (movie or projection) are made to be listened while your attention is focused on visuals allows the use of similar techniques: to support attention more than to try to grab it, the use of non-intrusive progressions, single chords patterns, long melodic lines etc. But the most obvious difference is the beat; on this new record there is a lot of motorik, while on the soundtrack none where used."