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Huis biography
Founded in Québec, Canada in 2009
Huis ("home doors" in french,
and "house" in dutch) is a five member musical project from Québec
officially formed by Pascal LAPIERRE (keyboards) and Michel JONCAS
(bass) at the end of 2009, after an oustanding and inspiring trip in the
Netherlands.
At that time, they decided to put on tape (read
hard drive!) some ideas they had in mind since a long time. Over time,
three other talented musicians, William REGNIER (drums), Sylvain
DESCOTEAUX (vocals) and Michel ST-PERE, this last musician from the band
MYSTERY (guitars) joined the band, each one bringing a special touch to
Huis' sound.
The music is a well crafted progressive rock with a
symphonic touch and the use of Hammond, Moog and Mellotron takes us
back to the old prog rock sound of the 70's. The guitar playing of
St-Pere brings a big influence of the Neo-Prog band MYSTERY and many
others Neo-Prog bands that put the melody and vocals upfront with strong
compositions skills. The band has released is first studio album in
January 2014, " Despite Guardian Angels".
First album from this Canadian Neo Prog band. Huis is made up of french speaking Canadians, but listening to Sylvain Descôteaux on lead vocals, this band could easily pass for a Manchester or Liverpool based group.
The most well known (at least to me) member of Huis is Michel St-Père, leader of Mystery, a band that has a gained an international reputation, partly because of ex-Yes Benoit David on lead vocals. Because of that, there are some excellent guitars to be heard on Despite Guardian Angels, but this is certainly not the only positive point of this excellent CD. Pascal Lapierre
on keyboards also takes on a prominent role, having a constant presence
in the music and offering a number of interesting solos. The rythm
section (i.e. Michel Joncas and William Régner)
is impeccable and Descôteaux's vocals are just great, his powerfull yet
very melodic voice being better than the great majority of lead singers
of today's most well known Neo Prog bands.
The compositions on Despite Guardian Angels are all very good,
very symphonic in nature, alternating powerfull pieces with more
melodic and emotional ones. If I were to pick a band as an acceptable
reference, it would be late 90's or early 00's Arena, and Despite Guardian Angels compares easily with their best CDs.
Those wanting to hear some great Neo Prog should certainly seek out this new album by Huis. In my humble opinion, Despite Guardian Angels is one of the best Neo Prog album to come out in quite a while. Don't miss it.
My highest recommendation indeed.
Night Falls is a literary anthology inspired by the universe of Twin
Peaks, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The book brings together
eight original short stories that explore the emotional, symbolic, and
metaphysical territory it has carved into the collective imagination. At
the heart of Twin Peaks lies a fragile balance between familiarity and
unease, between everyday rituals and the presence of something deeply
unsettling beneath the surface. Night Falls embraces this tension,
moving through small towns, isolated landscapes, domestic interiors,
dreams, and thresholds where reality begins to fracture. The writers
approach Twin Peaks as a condition of perception. Their stories resonate
with themes that have long defined the work of Lynch and Frost:
duality, hidden violence, trauma, the instability of time, and
the uneasy coexistence of innocence and corruption. Some narratives
lean toward psychological introspection, others toward the uncanny or
the metaphysical, yet all share a sensitivity to atmosphere, rhythm, and
suggestion rather than explanation. Night Falls extend the resonance of
Twin Peaks into new and independent fictional forms. It invites the
reader to remain within ambiguity, to accept disorientation, and to
listen carefully to what emerges when the lights fade and the night
begins to speak.
Stories
by: J. Edwin Buja, Michael F. Housel, Chris McAuley, Nora B. Peevy, RDJ
Armstrong, Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, Erica Ruppert, Can Wiggins.
Curated by Raffaele Pezzella
Edited by Chris McAuley
This
compilation continues a path that Unexplained Sounds Group has been
developing over time, following the earlier CD project inspired by
Eraserhead. While that release focused on the cinematic origins of David
Lynch’s language, this new work turns its attention to Twin Peaks, the
television series created by Lynch and Mark Frost that profoundly
reshaped the relationship between narrative, sound and perception on the
small screen. First broadcast in 1990, Twin Peaks initially aired for
two seasons between 1990 and 1991, before returning in 2017 with a third
season that radically redefined the boundaries of television
storytelling. From the outset, the series introduced an unprecedented
fusion of crime drama, soap opera, surrealism and metaphysical horror,
filtered through Lynch’s authorial vision as director and Frost’s
narrative architecture. What began as an apparently familiar small-town
mystery gradually evolved into an increasingly unstable universe,
dissolving linear narration and pushing television into territories that
were previously unthinkable. Across its three seasons, Twin Peaks
expanded into a complex exploration of dreams, alternate realities,
fragmented identities and temporal dislocation, transforming the medium
of television into a space for long-form experimentation and
subconscious
... morecredits
released June 18, 2026
REVIEWS
Bad Alchemy
Unexplained Sounds Group – Eighth Tower Records (Naples)
With Night Falls. Music Inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks (USG117),
Raffaele Pezzella deepens the reverence for the thrill of David Lynch's
fantastical cinema already demonstrated with The Eraserhead (USG110).
Five of the fellow devotees were already involved the first time around:
Craig Varian, with 400 Lonely Things as "Dark New Age for the New Dark
Age" and his hauntological fondness for the Green Man and for Thoreau,
lets 'Butterfly' drift through melancholic guitar loops. Kabra darkens
the Red Room with 'Black Soil' and lets a Haunted Ballroom and Skull
Island echo through the walls. Mark Hjorthoy in Vancouver, together with
David Strother in Olympia, WA, sets 'A Rabbit In The Moon' spinning
with trembling guitar strings. Oubys, the USG-seasoned Wannes Wolf in
Hasselt, lays mournfully plucked flowers on the grave of Julee Cruise
(1956–2022) with 'For Julee'. And Richard Bégin — the professor of Media
& Film Studies in Montreal, fascinated by H.R. Giger, William
Gibson, Philip K. Dick, ESP and Gysin's Dreamachine, and a perennial USG
guest — offers 'Dale Cooper's Doppelgänger', humming, distorted and
sorrowful. Joel Gilardini, the drone-loving, doomsterish guitarist in
Zurich, already a fellow reader of J.G. Ballard and Neuromancer and a
contributor to tributes to Dario Argento and Dreamachine, is now also
Lynched with 'Traces to Nowhere'. David Kovacs, a Hungarian between fog
and facts, between night and dawn, unsettles and seduces on 'Dreaming in
a Grey Lodge' with knocking sounds, bass strokes, and dreamlike guitar
tones. Mario Lino Stancati, the éminence grise of USG and Eighth Tower,
ranging from Burroughs, Cronenberg, Dante, Dracula, Fulci, Hellraiser to
Lovecraft, Poe and Tarkovsky, is naturally here too, with 'Fire Walks
Through Wires' — demonic yet with thundersheet irony. Paolo L. Bandera
(of Sshe Retina Stimulants), another node in Pezzella's network, has
infernally orchestrated 'Agente Atomico Episodico' as a ghost-train
revue with gurgling voices. Yousef Kawar, oscillating in New York
between guitar rock and dark ambient, tilts once more toward the dark
side with 'Whispers in the Black Lodge'. Rapoon takes us with
'Snoqualmie Falls' to the original locations in Washington, elegiacally
stirring strings and keys. Zuleika AvTes, who came from Brazil to
London, shows as Glass Isle — with her whispers and stippling on 'Haze' —
that Lynch fascinates women too, as of course he does. Pierre Laplace
in Lille, once singer-guitarist in Vera Clouzot (with Peter Orins on
drums), then the male half of The Sandman's Orchestra and finally alone
as Beyond the Ghost, draws 'The Velvet Curtain' closed with billowing
strings, reverberant piano tones, glockenspiel, and a frail JazzNoir
trumpet.
badalchemy.de
Weird Bones
The real triumph of ‘Night Falls’ is that it doesn’t pretend to offer
clarity. Each artist approaches the material like someone walking into a
room where the lights keep changing colour – you adjust, you squint,
you shrug, you keep going. The compilation honours the series by
refusing to sand down its edges or explain its logic. It just lets the
unease breathe.
weirdbones.co.uk/a-bit-peaky-twin-peaks-reimagined/
Bizzarrechats
bizarrechats.blogspot.com/2026/06/eighth-towers-night-falls-music.html
bizarrechats.blogspot.com/2026/06/eighth-towers-night-falls-stories.html
Our thanks to Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst) for a complimentary copy of this release.
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella.
Layout by Matteo Mariano.
Published by Unexplained Sounds Group
Cat. Num. USG117
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