..In 1994, four musicians felt
like liberating themselves from a formal kind of music. Therefore, that same
desire gathered them together in order to create Mils... this desire of research
and inventions in music is always amusing. This element remains permanent
in their composition from which they reject any kind of formal stability (instrumentation
most of all). That's why, according to their compositions, they use the guitares
as well as the wind instruments or the electronic instruments and they even
mixe them together without complex and with an entire freedom of aesthetic.
They have made three albums for the parisian label Gooom Disques and they
have colaborated with many other french or international structures (cross,
Japan or district six, GB) for their singles or remixes. At the end of 2001,
still for Gooom Disques, they have made echotones which is a compilation of
many different titles that had been realised between 1998-2001 for different
labels.They have created their own world of music where organic sounds are
mixted with elaborated electronic music, pop melody and improvisation.
Since their first album, their creations were followed by many musical papers,
by mainstream magazines (les inrockuptibles, magic, vibration...) as well
as specialized ones (coda, octopus, revues et corrigées...).
Here
there is an extract that speaks about Echotones :
"An electronic jungle of sonorous insects in
full swing : that is the surprising impresion given by this new album made
in Rennes. Springs of sound meet and penetrate each other, finding a new energy
during each coupling. The organic, mechanical, physical and mental music of
this quartet uses many genres : free jazz, electronica, modern music, arty
rock. The easy listenning of the language strikes the most in Mils'music.
An easy listenning that may remind of african or house music."
(vibrations
n°40, janu.2002)