Fuudge is a high-energy fuzz concentrate by David Bujold. However, in recent years, the multi-instrumentalist has put a lot of effort into his acoustic project recorded with a string quartet. So he needed a rock dump more than ever; his new album, …that a nightmare becomes so truewas the right remedy.
“For this album, I wanted something really aggressive,” the singer-songwriter tells us. We spent two years with the project Performed at the Grand Théâtre de Québec, longer than we thought, in fact. We got carried away by adding a string quartet, for example. I wanted to go back to the original plan, with a more stoner, more psych sound. »
More psychedelic, really? David Bujold takes the cover of his disc and reads the titles before changing his mind: “If you listen to my first two EPs, it’s super psychic and there’s a touch of stoner, he says. Now I’ve rocked, it’s definitely stoner, grunge, noise, with a touch of psych. I don’t even know if there’s still any psych left…” We are indeed resolutely in stoner territory, it’s heavy to wish for, there’s not much more soaring about Fuudge, apart from perhaps be a few passages from the title track.
In fact, it’s as if the Syd Barrett-era Floydian scents had naturally evolved into proto-prog territory. “I was trippy solid on the psych, but I also listened to a lot of prog when I was young: Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant. It’s the kind of terrain that I try to forget, but it lives in me, despite myself, recognizes the musician. In fact, I fight with my two identities. But wanting to put forward the stoner side, all that remains as a secondary accent is prog. »
PHOTO MARTIN TREMBLAY, THE PRESS
David Bujold
On tape
David Bujold, who composes all the songs and plays all the instruments on Fuudge’s albums, wanted something organic and natural for his third studio LP. He even took his four-track recorder out of the mothballs! “When I started playing at the age of 16, I used this kind of recorder,” he recalls. Today, everything comes back to the laptop, my life is the computer! That’s why I came back to four-track. »
He therefore put the ideas he had kept on tape, a somewhat chaotic process, recognizes the musician. “There are people who create every day, they go to volume and keep 10% of what they compose, explains David Bujold. I don’t have the discipline to do that. So I try to write down what goes through my head when I walk, when I ride my bike. »
I hum something, I record it on my phone, and when I have time, I go through my iPhone, I find the good riffs that I recorded, I copy my own voice on my guitar and I try to do something with it.
David Bujold
As David Bujold wanted a more abrasive sound, he also went back to his old metal records, classics of the Slayer genre, Metallica, “but Nirvana too, I’m a big fan”, tells us the one who happened to showed up for the interview at a café in Rosemont with a Metallica t-shirt under his jeans jacket.
The guitars are therefore deliciously fat, sometimes out of tune down to B flat — you have to listen Shut up, everything is fine to hear how the strings are relaxed, we would even dare to say lousses!
I did this by accident. I hummed a melody and the last note was lower than E, so I took my guitar out of tune.
David Bujold
The flame of rock
A profession of rock faith that bears witness to the spirit of the times, David Bujold also predicts the return to favor of the sound of the 1970s and 1990s. show in Chicoutimi at the Bar à pitons, and it was filled with young people in their twenties. I really caught what that night seeing them trashing and crowdsurfing, the 42-year-old musician tells us. There are really young people coming back to rock. I think it’s a question of accessibility and diffusion, it creates a mass effect. Young people today listen to just about anything basically, there are no more categories. »
“For our part, we try to keep the flame of rock burning, but we also see that people are really happy that we do it,” he told us. I am grateful to see that what I build is well received. The pleasure is all ours, David.
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…that a nightmare becomes so true
Fuudge
Folivora Records