LIVE
THE ARCHIVES
Marc Soucy: electric grand piano, organ, analog synthesizers
Jeff Carano: bass guitar
Ray Lavigne: drums, percussion, and furnace parts
Audio restoration and videos** created by Marc
These are LIVE performances directly to stereo tape using room microphones only.
no studio, no tracking
THEY ARE PRESENTED AS THEY WERE PLAYED, WARTS AND ALL.
**Please excuse the sometimes inside—but always nonsensical—humor attempted in these videos. They often reference each other so watching them in order could be helpful. Thanks for your indulgence.
THUS BEGINS “THE ANTARTICA MYTHOLOGY”
“Marc Soucy deserves praise for his efforts to save this historic moment and the track stands as proof of live music’s enduring impact. This release marks the start of a series of tracks from Antarctica which will ensure that this period of Marc’s musical journey remains in memory.” — Swiispa.net — April 2 2025
Mayhem in Antartica
“Soucy delivers a crystallized moment of his musical youth,… a fascinating hybrid of improvisation and calculated composition, where layers of keyboards reverberate like polar wind gusts, percussion pulses like the frozen heart of the Antarctic landscape, and the bass holds the ground like ice about to crack underfoot.” — Radio Amarzen April 4 2025
"The 8-minute instrumental is hectic, inventive, endlessly engaging and dynamic, as well as just amazingly delivered. The bass of Jeff Carano sings throughout the recording, the drums of Ray Lavigne carry the whole band forward with such immense talent and effortlessness, and Soucy’s shapeshifting, dissonant, rhythmically twisted, and hella fun synths lead the way with an outstanding presence and sense of creativity.
‘Mayhem in Antarctica’ is gorgeously restored. I went through a full listen before finding out the music was played live, and just then the enjoyment factor immediately quadrupled. You can feel the energy that was in the room all those decades ago just by stepping into this consuming time capsule of a release." -- Rockerama Magazine April 11 2025
Charlie Backwards
When I Take the Five
No This Isn’t Jazz Either
The Out Cats
Too Cool For You
Marc’s Little Ditty, Tying the “Antartica Mythology” all together.
