biographical info
A Montreal-based quartet, Miriodor create instrumental music that is complex, playful, visually evocative, and exquisitely performed. The band describes its sound as “like a soundtrack for a movie, a movie with weird and strange stories,” and indeed, each CD is like a book of short video stories, each differing in subject and mood. Their compositions, each as intricate as an Escher drawing and entertaining as fun-house mirrors, have been praised “ominous, ferocious, and zany…complex musical mayhem” [Sea of Tranquility], exuding “a darkly comic dysfunction Tim Burton would give his eyeteeth for.” [Michigan Independent]. Miriodor’s highly-distinct compositions, influenced by European folk music, and its rigorous musicianship have identified it as the main Canadian exponent of the European-based RIO (Rock In Opposition) sound. Audion have stated that Miriodor present a “complexly classical French twist on the RIO sound, notably with a side step from Art Zoyd and Univers Zero, with many a unique twist of their own.” It is Miriodor’s specifically French-Canadian twist on RIO that has won them acclaim as the RIO band for those intimidated by RIO; while complex, Miriodor’s music is light-hearted, unpresumptuous, and sincerely entertaining.