Chants et danses du monde inanimé, René Lussier in Octopus
Même accompagné, ce dernier excelle. En compagnie de Robert Marcel Lepage, il forme un duo — clarinette, saxophone et guitare — d’une
Même accompagné, ce dernier excelle. En compagnie de Robert Marcel Lepage, il forme un duo — clarinette, saxophone et guitare — d’une
Vous rêvez de découvrir un compositeur mélant dérision, inventivité et sens de l’orchestration. Vous êtes prêt a passer une petite annonce utopique pour trouver quelqu’un répondant à ce profil rare
Les Poules (The Chicks) are Joane Hétu (alto sax, synth, voice), Diane Labrosse (synth, voice) and Danielle Roger (drums, drum machine, synth and voice), and together they have one of the strongest grasps of how to manipulate sound that I’ve heard in a long time. There are some vague traces of early Henry Cow, even earlier Gong, and Matching Mole, but past that the album moves quickly off to define itself on its own terms. “Human Pinball” sets up a skittery and sometimes silly sonic edge, while Solliloque pour Simone uses a slow, open drum pulse to pin together watery washes of synths and a lonely, poetic sax line, all to great effect. Faust et son pain is a muscular and tense,bit of music quite apart from the two pieces I first described. In fact, if there’s a weakness to this album, it might be that it’s a little disjointed. All the cuts stand up just fine on their own, but strung together as an album, the overall effect is an unpredictable mood, shifting emotions and some bits that shine more than others. But these women have really got a handle on their sound structures, and l’d like to hear them focus their musical efforts around a central theme with more Iyrics. An engaging album, and heavy potential.
Non, ce n’est pas à proprement parler une réédition. D’ailleurs, le thème principal -en durée- de l’édition vinyl, Beyrouth, à défaut d’être mort n’y figure pas
Première approche, non auditive:moins de préoccupations d’ordre politique (Beyrouth justement mais la collection 1984 comprenait aussi -et maintient- Chiens de garde culturels, États asservis… ) alors que l’intitulé des pièces récentes à un côté satiesque ou pataphysique Berceuse pour un petit bidon, L’art de remplir des boîtes, et autre L’ablation des sinusoïdales.
Deuxième approche
All the works on Navré, the second record from this Montréal sextet, were composed by saxophonist Derome during tours with a variety of groups. The influence of the road might show in his predilection for extended structures in which long, slow passages are interrupted by sudden bursts, like the bebop-ish head of Navré or the staccato drumming of “Toronto. “ Or maybe that’s the influence of John Lurie. Like the
This reissue of the 1984 album, one of the first on Ambiances magnétiques, adds another album’s worth of music recorded in 1996 that is true to the original and every bit as fun. Lepage and Lussier are standouts in the noise-and-sound avant-garde that has grown over the years with the success of the annual Victoriaville music fest. The pairing of Lepage’s sax and clarinet wails with Lussier’s dry, percussive guitar is at once playful and skilled. The pieces are presented as exercises in style prompted by les influences mécanistes, the juncture of the mechanical age with the age of technology. And while the album notes take on a nearly academic tone (albeit with tongue in cheek), the music ranges from accessible (playing with canned rock riffs or referencing wellknown themes) to intensely freeform. While at first I found this nearly headacheinducing, with a little time and more focused attention I began to enjoy the conversational style of these duets. They require attention—typically, what sounds at first like random noise becomes a theme that is built up and then destroyed. I can imagine the smiles on their faces as they recorded this.