Montreal multi-wind instrumentalist Pierre Labbe (Les Projectionnistes, L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus, Papa Boa) leads an insanely talented and quirky quartet with guitarist Bernard Falaise, drummer Pierre Tanguay, and narrator/storyteller Michel Faubert, creating a captivating album that transcends language in it's superb pacing, development, and artistry.
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Pierre Labbe-voice, flute, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, electronics
Bernard Falaise-electric guitar, electric bass, voice, keyboards
Michel Faubert-voice
Pierre Tanguay-voice, drums, podorrythmie, rattletrap
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UPC: 619061472826
Label: Malasartes
Catalog ID: mam_025
Squidco Product Code: 23560
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2016
Country: Canada
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Studio 270 in Montreal, Canada, in December 2015, by Robert Langlois.
"It's been three years since saxophonist Pierre Labbe brought to the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) the creation of his project mixing traditional and current music, with the assistance of Michel Faubert in the role of the "electric storyteller." His poetry is magnified by the melodies sought by the musicians around them (guitarist Bernard Falaise and the drummer Pierre Tanguay) As in a concert, we let ourselves be immediately taken by the energy of the ensemble, similar to that of the group Papa Boa, which Falaise, Faubert and Labbe have participated [...] "-Rejean Beaucage, Voir (via Google Translate)
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Pierre Labbe "Sax/flute player and composer Pierre Labbé is gifted with a tirelessly inquisitive mind. He has made various forays into jazz and musique actuelle with Les Projectionnistes, L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus, Papa Boa, and Pierre Labbé Quartet. He has performed many times in several jazz and creative music festivals in Canada, the US, Mexico, and Morocco. He has released close to ten CDs. Always on the move, Labbé plays, improvises, blows, sings, composes, creates, and makes sounds for dance and theatre. He has produced incidental music for over 20 productions (Pacamambo by Wajdi Mouawad, best youth production, 2002; Les âmes sœurs by Serge Marois; Âme, a choreography by Benjamin Hatcher). The Quasar saxophone quartet commissioned him for a piece (Bocal, culasse et pavillon) premiered in 2008. For its 10th edition, the OFF Montréal Jazz Festival commissioned him for a large-scale work, Tremblement de fer, for 50 musicians, premiered in June 2009. Labbé is the artistic director of the youth arts company Sacré Tympan. He has written and produced Pierre et le pou, a performance that blends music with storytelling and theatre of objects. The company will be touring Montréal's Maisons de la Culture in 2009-2010. Since 1996, he has been traveling across Québec with his Contes du vent, a performance concert for young audiences. In concert, on record or while performing, Labbé is a singular artist that navigates from project to project, like a momentum catcher. His boldness and versatility as a composer and improviser are what sets him apart." ^ Hide Bio for Pierre Labbe • Show Bio for Bernard Falaise "Bernard Falaise. Born Montréal, Québec, 1965. Residence: Montréal, Québec. Composer, Performer (guitar). Bernard Falaise was born in Montréal, where he currently lives. He plays electric guitar, composes and improvises - all with evident joy - for Miriodor, Klaxon Gueule, les Projectionnistes, Diesel and other groups. He has written for the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM), Quartango and the Isis Quartet, and has created music for exhibitions, television, the theatre and dance. Allergic to labels, Falaise explores acid rock, twelve-tone waltzes and industrial tangos with equal enthusiasm." ^ Hide Bio for Bernard Falaise • Show Bio for Michel Faubert "Michel Faubert is a storyteller, singer and ethnographer from Quebec, born in 1959 in Rigaud. In 1978, inspired by the movement back to Quebec roots, he began collecting songs and stories with seniors in his region, then throughout Quebec and Acadia . This material, tinged with popular fantasy, he used to record a first record in 1992, Maudite Memory, in which include medieval laments but also tavern songs. At the same time, Faubert began collaborating with many artists, such as the cellist Claude Lamothe or the traditionalist group La Bottine Souriante, and founded the a capella group Les Charbonniers de l'Ener with four other singers. In 1995, he put on the show of tales Le Passeur, which he presented in Quebec, in Canada and in Europe, and which earned him the gold medal of the Jeux de la Francophonie held in Madagascar in 1997, in the category "Storyteller ". The same year, he launched a new album of songs, Echo des bois . A Felix award is awarded during the twentieth gala of the ADISQ in the category "Folk Album of the Year". A new storytelling show, The Soul Coming Through the Sleeper's Mouth, was presented in 1999, followed the next year by a new disc devoted to the a capella complains, The Reward. In 2006, he collaborated with Jérôme Minière to create a new musical genre, fed by their respective worlds, which gave rise to a show and a disc, La fin du monde." ^ Hide Bio for Michel Faubert • Show Bio for Pierre Tanguay "Quebec City, Québec, 1956: Composer, Performer (drum set, percussion, voice) A percussionist, composer and inveterate inventor, Pierre Tanguay is one of the most sought-after Montréal musicians on the Quebec scene. Since the beginning of the 80s, he has participated in an impressive number of ensembles, including Jean Derome and the dangereux zhoms, Évidence, Castor et compagnie, the Jean-François Groulx Trio, the ODD (a danse orchestra), Villemure Ô Carré, the Pierre Cartier Ensemble and Projet Riel. Among his collaborators are Jean Derome, Normand Guilbeault, Pierre Langevin, René Lussier, Karen Young, Fred Frith, Michel Donato, Daniel Mille, André Duchesne and Antoine Berthiaume. He is very active in the fileds of medieval and traditional music, jazz and musique actuelle. He is the co-founder of Strada, Midi Tapant, Derome/Tanguay. He has composed works for dance (Lucie Grégoire, Andrew Harwood, Irène Stamou and Francine Gagné), as well as works for the theatre and film (Allan Booth, Imago and Roberto Ariganello). He regularly tours throughout Canada and Europe." ^ Hide Bio for Pierre Tanguay
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Track Listing:
1. Il est malchanceux 5:47
2. Brule-pourpoint 6:08
3. Violon 4:17
4. Jean Baribeau 5:29
5. Le miroir 4:33
6. Jean Menard 2:39
7. Chaman 11:20
8. Le roi Renaud 4:00
Ambiances Magnetiques
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Electro-Acoustic
Electro-Acoustic Improv
Musique Actuelle
Quartet Recordings
Spoken Word
Canadian Composition & Improvisation
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