Real name: Eric Quach

Effective period / Period of releases: 2005 - 2024

Thisquietarmy is a one-man solo drone/ambient project by Eric Quach (also of Destroyalldreamers, Mains de Givre & Ghidrah (2)) from Montreal, Quebec, Canada - active since 2005. Please do not add other members to the project. Quach works with collaborators but TQA stays his solo project.

Quach composes visual guitar-based soundscapes and experimental music that goes beyond the typical song structure. By exploring his guitar as a tone generator, he furthers the boundaries of his instrument with the use of multiple effect processors & real-time loop-samplers, alternating the guitar signal’s shape and tone, blending textures over textures, merging a wide combination of sounds together and developing the melodies hidden in these walls of sound. Concrete musical ideas are often generated by the re-interpretation, the decomposition and the reconstruction of its own improvisations.