Minimal Wave Records

From the pro­lific cul­tur­al epi­cent­er of Montre­al, Marie David­son has em­er­ged as one of the foremost electronic art­ists work­ing in con­tem­pora­ry pop today. As a long-time mem­b­er of Es­saie pas (DFA Re­cords, Teenage Menopause) and DKMD (Gial­lo Disco Re­cords, Fur Trade Re­cord­ings), David­son has had the op­por­tun­ity to hone her many talents. She has been par­ticipat­ing in the city’s vib­rant ex­periment­al com­mun­ity for much of her adult life. Howev­er, in 2012 she began to un­veil com­posi­tions under her own name, re­veal­ing a solo art­ist who pos­sessed the com­bined con­fid­ence and vul­nerabil­ity re­quired to write, pro­duce and per­form un­ac­companied. David­son’s in­timate solo work is em­bodied through a host of syn­thesiz­ers, sequenc­ers and drum mac­hines which co­ales­ce in syn­chronized har­mony, punctuated by voc­als, half sung, half spok­en in both French and En­glish. She mas­terful­ly shapes the over­all mood, themes, em­o­tion, ex­press­ion and in­tens­ity of her work, which gives the final re­sult a dis­tinctive, cinematic qual­ity. Her live sets are en­er­getic, built for danc­ing, as audi­ences be­come im­mer­sed in hy­pnotic rhy­thms, ab­sor­bed by the tight­ly sequen­ced bass lines and en­gaged by her vocal de­live­ry. Not only will she will spin you a tale, her music will im­mer­se your soul in haunt­ing im­ages of sweet an­xiety and glamour­ous sen­sual­ity.
In the last two years Marie David­son has caught the at­ten­tion of the press by re­leas­ing “Perte d’iden­tité” (Weyrd Son Re­cords 2014) fol­lowed by “Un autre voyage” (Holodeck Re­cords 2015). Both al­bums have been acknow­ledged for their uni­que blend of up­beat and am­bient materi­al. She is now about to re­lease her first fully dance floor orien­ted piece of work on the dis­tin­guis­hed label Citit­rax (the di­vis­ion of Minim­al Wave re­cords which focuses on new con­tem­pora­ry music). As a solo per­form­er David­son has played in­ter­national­ly re­now­ned fes­tiv­als such as SXSW (Aus­tin), MUTEK (Montre­al), OUT­LINE (Mos­cow), OBEY Con­ven­tion (Halifax), City Of A Thousand Suns (Fort Gor­gast, Ger­many), Phénomena (Montre­al) and Pop Montre­al. She has also toured Europe four times and twice in the U.S. De­main est une autre nuit, the latest re­lease of her duo Es­saie pas was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize of 2016. Marie’s forthcom­ing solo album, “Adieux Au Dan­cefloor” is com­ing out on Citit­rax in Oc­tob­er 2016.