Joane Hetu and Jean Derome formed Nous percons les oreilles 20 years ago, merging their expansive musical interests in idiosyncratic improvisation and orchestration using saxophones & wind instruments, objects, voice, melodica, and piano, here in their 4th astonishing album.
Format: CD Condition: Sale (New) Released: 2016 Country: Canada Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Studio 270 in Miontreal, Canada, on September 1st through the 6th, 2016, by Robert Langlois.
Personnel:
Jean Derome-alto saxophone, flute, piano, bass melodica, percussion, objects, voice
After a lengthy 8-year period away from the recording studio (because this world we live in clearly isn't a perfect one), Nous percons les oreilles are back with an ideal: their fourth album entitled Un Ideal. Joane Hetu and Jean Derome formed Nous percons les oreilles 20 years ago. A whole life spent squealing, scratching, roaring, howling, shouting, whispering... On this new set of songs and improvisations, Joane and Jean are pushing their art further, expanding on the pleasure they still experience when playing together. The album features 3 songs by Joane Hetu: Excepte, Le territoire, and the title track Un Ideal. A lot has been said about Nous percons les oreilles. Some spoke of intimacy, violence, textures, daily life, sensuality, magic. Others have described the duo's music as unsettling, disturbing, overwhelming, off-kilter, iconoclastic, highly contrasting, heart-wrenching, vibrant. The performers have been called bold, courageous, curious..., but for NPLO life goes on, and that's all."-Ambiences Magnetiques