QUINTON BARNES & THE BLACK NOISE ENSEMBLE

Quinton Barnes - Black Noise

Watch That Ends The Night Records

RIYL: Billy Woods, Armand Hammer, clipping., Prince, Klein

Quinton Barnes is a relentlessly ambitious Montreal-based artist exploring the edges of Canada's music scene. Since 2018, he's built a unique sound, writing, rapping, singing, producing, mixing, and mastering his own work across a prolific discography. For his new album, Black Noise, produced by Michael Cloud Duguay (Scions), releasing June 6 on Watch That Ends The Night Records, Barnes took an assuredly different approach than with his past work, resulting in a release that, while in staunch keeping with his radically innovate methods of expression, presents a bold sonic evolution and showcases the talents and efforts of a diverse collective of Montreal-based artists and musicians in collaboration.

In late 2022, on the heels of the release of his For the Love of Drugs album, Quinton Barnes casually tweeted ‘I want to work with noise/improv musicians in some capacity … not sure how yet but the idea is there’.

Inspired by Afropessimist thought and the work of French Economist Jacques Attali, Barnes became interested in noise and the function that it can serve, particularly within the context of Black music, and hoped to situate noise within a context of black cultural expression, fusing soul and gospel-inspired vocals with noise, rapping with noise, and pushing the limits of black genres to an aesthetic and sonic brink


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