Michel Langevin

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Michel Langevin (2013)

Michel Langevin , nickname Away (born May 30, 1963 , Jonquière ) is a Canadian drummer and graphic designer . He became famous as the drummer of the metal band Voivod and as the creator of the fictional character of the same name . Langevin is responsible for all of the band's artwork , designs covers for other music groups such as Probot and illustrates books .

Life

Langevin grew up in Kenogami, a place near Jonquière (now a district of Saguenay ), an industrial city north of Québec . Langevin described himself as a daydreamer who was only interested in metal , progressive rock and science fiction and who spent most of his youth in a vivid fantasy world. As a child and adolescent, he already spent his free time drawing and playing the drums. During this time, characters like Korgüll and Voivod emerged , which later formed the conceptual basis of the band Voivod. Langevin attended his hometown high school , where he met Denis D'Amour, four years his senior . Both were interested in music and began jamming together in the late 1970s, forming the high school band Death Dealer in 1980 and Voivod in November 1982. Since then, Langevin has been the band's drummer and is also responsible for all of Voivod's artwork. After recording the debut album War and Pain in 1984, Langevin dropped out of his nuclear physics studies at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in Saguenay, left his parents' home and moved to Montreal . There he was initially dependent on welfare and was able to live for the first time in 1987 from the royalties that he and his fellow musicians achieved with Voivod. Langevin has been a professional musician ever since. Langevin has been creating his graphics on the computer since the 1989 album Nothingface . From the mid-1990s Langevin began to work on commission and designed record covers for bands such as Probot, Non Phixion and Danko Jones.In 1990 he appeared as a live drummer with Men Without Hats , played the drums on their 1991 album Sideways and collaborated with JG Thirlwell in his project Steroid Maximus . In the mid-2000s he was one of the founders of the experimental rock band Kosmos . In 2007 he founded the band Les Ékorchés with musician friends, with whom he released three studio albums until 2011. Since 2013 he has been the drummer in the band Tau Cross around the Amebix founder Rob Miller, the debut album was released in 2015 on Relapse Records .

Discography

with Voivod
with Men Without Hats
  • 1991: Sideways
with cosmos
  • 2007: cosmos
with Les Ékorchés
  • 2007: Les Ékorchés
  • 2009: IV Demons
  • 2011: Frères de sang
with rope cross
  • 2015: Tau Cross
as a guest drummer with Steroid Maximus
  • 1990: Quilombo
  • 1992: Gondwanaland

Book illustrations

  • 2009: Worlds Away. Voivod and the Art of Michel Langevin.
  • 2010: Mean Deviation. Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal.

literature

  • Michael Barclay, Ian AD Jack, Jason Schneider: Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995 . ECW Press, Toronto 2011, ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9 .
  • Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal . Bazillion Points Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9796163-3-4 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation. P. 104.
  2. ^ Michael Barclay et al .: Have Not Been the Same. P. 155.
  3. ^ Michael Barclay et al .: Have Not Been the Same. P. 156.
  4. ↑ Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation. P. 112.
  5. ↑ Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation. P. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Langevin, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Away
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian drummer and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonquière