Joker brings together 12 vocalists, many core members of the Ambiances Magnetiques/Musique Actuelle collective including Joane Hetu, Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Michel F Cote, Lori Freedman, &c, performing unusual works of voice and narration composed by Joane Hetu.
Format: CD Condition: Sale (New) Released: 2016 Country: Canada Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Studio 270 in Montreal, Canada, on December 12th, 2014, by Robert Langlois.
"Joker's first release Joane Hetu: Où est-il donc ce rêve available now on Ambiances Magnetiques indie label. It began one bewildering night. A chorus of voices, riding a time machine, chimed together mysteriously, and the night was jolted by apparitions. Thus appeared the oneiric, irrational world inhabited by these twelve singers and, under their conductor's unusual signals, their siren songs, their tales of sleeping upright, and their magic-in-sound. That night's exorbitant playfulness and meteoric dreaming produced vertiginous visions and silences: angels eluding the inferno, exalted in the starry night, forgotten or hidden in the darkness, and tangled in this tide of dreams. They had left the quotidian, one bereft of imagination. In this way, Où est-il donc ce rêve? is an amorphous night animated by a series of short dreams, by turns disjointed and crazed, that stave off the horrifying thought of a dreamless world.
JOKER
Founded in 2012 and directed by Joane Hetu, JOKER is an a cappella choir comprising a dozen vocalists. This unconventional vocal ensemble explores vocal texture and timbre; rhythmic motifs; sound poetry; and extra-musical sounds like breath, babbling, and mouth noise. JOKER is invested in marginal sounds, peripheral territories, and the spaces between the tones of conventional choir singing, and does so not through established repertoire, but by inventing its own language to suit.