A tribute to controversial and outrageous Quebec sculptor and installation artist Rose Drummond, through a collection of unusual, diverse, absurdist and absolutely remarkable instrumental & vocal songs drawn from saxophonist and composer Jean Derome's musical career, performed with Musique Actuelle luminaries including Michel F Coté, Joane Hétu, and Éric Normand.
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Jean Derome-voice, alto saxophone, objects, bass trumpet, synthesizer, obsolete telephone answering machine
Joane Hetu-alto saxophone, voice, objects
Alexandre Robichaud-trumpet, voice, objects
Robin Servant-accordion, vocals, effects
Tom Jacques-vibraphone, percussion, voice
Robert Bastien-electric guitar, objects, voice
Eric Normand-electric bass, tenor banjo, vocals
Michel F Cote-drums, vocals, effects
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Incluedes a color 9-section foldout with lyrics and text in French and English.
UPC: 771028126927
Label: Ambiances Magnetiques / Tour de Bras
Catalog ID: AM_269 TDB900057cd
Squidco Product Code: 32569
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: Canada
Packaging: Cardstock Foldover in a clear vinyl sleeve with booklet
Recorded at the Cooperative de solidarite Paradis de Rimouski, in Rimouski, Canada, on from June 23rd to 26th, 2021, by Sebastien Corriveau.
"Jean Derome pays a vibrant tribute to Rose Drummond, certainly our greatest artist, by means of a collection of 15 "ready-made" and absurd songs scattered throughout his musical career."-The Horizon, Quebec
A brief portrait by Jean Derome
"Few artists have left their mark on the Quebec imagination and had as much impact on the Quebec territory as the sculptor and installation artist Rose Drummond. His major pieces, almost all of which are visible from Highway 20, the main highway in Quebec, testify to his creative force and his desire to challenge the whole of Quebec.
His best-known and most popular installation is probably Autobus Girardin, a maniacal alignment of a hundred school buses of different sizes, all facing south-west. The fact that the room remains in constant transformation continues to amaze the thousands of people who pass by it every day. Despite the proximity of a small airport, very few people will have had the chance to see the work from the air in order to be able to decipher the fragments of text created by the ever-changing positioning of the different vehicles.
Nevertheless, I have a soft spot for his Black Rectangle, certainly his most contested work, but which also remains his most powerful. Designed as a vibrant tribute to Paul-Émile Borduas and the impact he had on our society, this painting of Herculean proportions, truly on the scale of the Pays-Québec, has not finished making people talk about it. . Impossible to ignore this colossal work, a masterful rectangle of 100 meters by 30 cut out of Mont St-Hilaire. For once, the possibility of intervening on a large scale on the Quebec landscape was offered to an important artist rather than to a large mining company or to Hydro-Quebec! Of course, many environmentalists protested that the fact that it was a work of art did not justify such disfigurement of the natural landscape. The debate is open. For my part, I am always filled with joy when I approach Mont Saint-Hilaire in the direction of Montreal, especially in the fall.
A visit to the Ateliers Rose Drummond is also a must for anyone visiting this region.
Showing archives, working notes, models and a host of artefacts spanning his entire career, the visit is definitely worth the detour. A dynamic team will be able to answer all your questions about the work of our great artist; probably one of the only artists in North America, and a woman moreover (!), to have seen a city named after her, even if a large number of Drummondville residents are unaware of it."
Rose Drummond: "In 2015-16, thanks to a Career Grant from the Government of Quebec, I was able to present a major creative project spread over a full year. I presented 17 different events in as many different places and with different groups. For my friends from Rimouski, I proposed the presentation of Rose Drummond, a tribute to this great artist and Quebec pioneer, made from a collection of ready-mades and absurd songs drawn from my entire career. We were welcomed by the Regional Museum of Rimouski and our concert took the form of a guided tour of different spaces of the Museum. In the wake of this wonderful concert, Éric Normand wanted to record this music with the aim of making a record. Here it is."
Incluedes a color 9-section foldout with lyrics and text in French and English.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Jean Derome "Jean Derome. Born Montréal, Québec, 1955. esidence: Montréal, Québec. Composer, Performer (saxophones (alto, baritone, soprano), flutes (flute, bass flute, piccolo, alto flute, recorders), keyboards, small wind instruments (ocarinas, jew's harp, game calls, toys...), percussion, invented instruments, voice) One of the most active and eclectic musicians on the Canadian creative music scene, Jean Derome has managed to earn the recognition of a larger public, a rare feat in that field. Thanks to his large-scale musique actuelle projects, his compositions, his work as an improviser, his jazz groups and his music for the screen and the stage, Derome ranks as a major creative force, in Québec and abroad. He is experienced and innovative on both saxophone and flute, and his unique writing style cannot be mistaken for anyone else's. Sensitive and powerful, his music often features a funny strike that makes its complex nature more inviting. Ever since Nébu (one of Québec's first avant-garde jazz groups) in the early '70s, Derome has been consistently renewing and diversifying his approach of composition. He impressed audience and critics first with the flute, then with the saxophone, as a lead character in the musique actuelle underground. He took part to the various artists' collectives looking for new ways to express themselves freely, without esthetic or social constraints, including the Ensemble de musique improvisée de Montréal. Later, in the early '80s, he co-founded Ambiances Magnétiques, a collective and record label that raised his profile at home and introduced his name to the outside world. Among his numerous projects, let us mention the duos Les Granules, Nous perçons les oreilles and Plinc! Plonc!, the dynamic group Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms, and the large-scale projects Confitures de gagaku, Je me souviens - Hommage à Georges Perec and Canot-camping. Most of these projects are based on a unique form of synergy between composition, structured improvisation and genuine creative madness, all this articulated with unmatched playfulness. In 1992, Derome became the second artist to be presented with the Freddie Stone Award (bassist Lisle Ellis was the first). Besides improvising on a regular basis with Ambiances Magnétiques' members and appearing in their projects, Derome has also shared the stage with several musicians of international stature, among others Fred Frith, Lars Hollmer, Louis Sclavis and Han Bennink. He performs regularly all over Canada, in the US and in Europe. He received a Prix Opus in 2001 for his exposure abroad. Lately, jazz circles have been praising his undisputable qualities as a jazzman, thanks to the Thelonious Monk tribute project Évidence, the Normand Guilbeault Ensemble (whose Mingus Erectus CD is devoted to Charles Mingus' music), and the much-lauded Derome Guilbeault Tanguay Trio. Although Jean Derome writes tirelessly for his own projects, he is much in demand in the fields of film, theatre and dance. A short list of this side of his work would have to include his numerous scores for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), especially for films by John Walker, Jacques Leduc, Fernand Bélanger and animated films by Pierre Hébert, Michèle Cournoyer and Jean Detheux; his incidental music for Théâtre UBU, Théâtre de Quat'Sous and Théâtre du Nouveau Monde; not forgetting his work with several top choreographers, including Louise Bédard, Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood, Daniel Soulières and Ginette Laurin. Other music ensembles have commissioned works from him, including Tuyo, Bradyworks, the Hard Rubber Orchestra from Vancouver and Fanfare Pourpour. Incidentally, Derome is the musical director of the latter. Over thirty years of music and 70 record credits later, Jean Derome still has sleeves bursting with tricks." ^ Hide Bio for Jean Derome • Show Bio for Joane Hetu "Joane Hétu. Born Montréal, Québec, 1958. Residence: Montréal, Québec. Composer, Performer (alto saxophone, voice), Author/ It has been more than 30 years now since self-taught composer, vocalist and saxophonist Joane Hétu has been following her own highly distinctive path through the vast territory of creative, contemporary music. From her beginnings with song-based new-rock bands such as Wondeur Brass, Justine and Les Poules, Hétu turned to composition (the evocative triptych comprising Musique d'hiver, Filature and La femme territoire ou 21 fragments d'humus) and improvisation, more often than not combining both within her general approach to music. She has co-directed the Ensemble SuperMusique since its founding in 1998, as well as the weekly series Mercredimusics since 2002. More recently she gave birth to La chorale bruitiste Joker (2012). Joane Hétu was awarded the prestigious Freddie Stone Award in 2006." ^ Hide Bio for Joane Hetu • Show Bio for Alexandre Robichaud Alexandre Robichaud is a Canadian trumpeter, known for the bands Le Grand Groupe Régional d'Improvisation Libérée, Equse, GGRIL, Incipit, and work with Éric Normand. ^ Hide Bio for Alexandre Robichaud • Show Bio for Robin Servant "Robin Servant [Rimouski, Canada] is a musician with a passion for traditional musics, improvisation, and composition. He has worked in many traditional ensembles (Trio Salicorne, Tord-Vis, la Baratte à Beurre, la Marée montante) and also in improvised music groups (GGRIL, duo Escarbilles, Brugir). He tries to make connections between popular traditions and contemporary musics. His work is organized around 2 axes: sharing the experience and experiencing the moment. With Du souffle et de l'espace, he explores the acoustics of the places he visits by making them vibrate with his accordion and electronics." ^ Hide Bio for Robin Servant • Show Bio for Tom Jacques "Tom Jacques: Multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Tom Jacques is a multi-instrumentalist and sound artist. His work evolves between composition, improvisation, performance and sound device design, mainly in contemporary music, jazz, and percussion. For the last 5 years, he has been working with various artists and technicians in order to make his own musical instruments and sound installations. This approach allows him to explore unique musical universes that are unattainable with conventional instruments. Tom Jacques stands out among Quebec's new breed of creative artists. Many of his personal projects and musical ensembles have been acknowledged and supported by the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec through its Bas-Saint-Laurent arts and literature program and its Bas-Saint-Laurent territorial partnership program . He is also supported by the Canada Council for the Arts , and is the recipient of the Bas-Saint-Laurent Best Newcomer Award. Tom is the Artistic Director of the percussion trio Bascaille, a co-artistic director of the jazz quartet Manta, and a member of the GGRIL (Grand Groupe Régional d'Improvisation LIbre, which means "large regional free improvisation group". He regularly collaborates with artists of all stripes as a musician, composer, and consultant. In 2017, he exhibited a sound device entitled "Comment Où le Son" at a travelling exhibition of the organization Voir à l'Est, and a follow-up entitled "Trajet Pas Pareil" at the 2018 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV). This young artist is strongly involved in the cultural community. Currently president of Arte Tracto and director of Culture du Bas-Saint-Laurent, he helped set up Garage à musique de la Haute-Gaspésie, a pilot project inspired by Montréal's GAM, which uses music to help young people lessen the negative impacts of their harsh living conditions. The GAM's services are free." ^ Hide Bio for Tom Jacques • Show Bio for Robert Bastien Robert Bastien is a Canadian guitarist, known for his work with GGRIL ( Le Grand Groupe Régional d'Improvisation Libérée). ^ Hide Bio for Robert Bastien • Show Bio for Eric Normand "Eric Normand is an improviser, bassist, instrument designer, composer, songwriter, singer and record and concert producer. He defines himself as an epidisciplinary musician, a free electron driven by its yearning for meetings. As an improviser, he develop a personal and radical playing on a homemade electric bass equipped with mics and objects feedbacking and vibrating in small electronic devices, creating electric flux interrupted by the instrumental gesture. With this set, he prefer to play duets, with Jim Denley (flute and sax), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet and sax), Sébastien Cirotteau (trumpet), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola de gamba and electronic), Jean-Luc Guionnet (saxophone), in addition of several spontaneous encounters. He also play in bands involved in a more specific musical genre as danced poetry with BABABA, instrumental theatre with Le Veau/ The Veal, songs with Les Pitounes and Éric Normand Chante and folk music with The Surruralits and RRRRoyal Canadian Free Form Folk Experience. Interested in collective creation and orchestral improvisation, he lead for seven years the GGRIL, a 15 pieces band that have worked with composers such as Evan Parker, Jean Derome, Robert Marcel Lepage and Michael Fischer. His music has been programmed by or performed in several festivals in Canada , Australia and Europe. It have also been broadcasted by Radio-Canada, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, Radio-Grenouille, and several college radio stations." ^ Hide Bio for Eric Normand • Show Bio for Michel F Cote "Michel F Côté. Born Montréal, Québec, 1958. Residence: Montréal, Québec. Composer, Performer (percussion). Half a century later, now a grown-up, he still doesn't understand why he chose a career as a musician and composer instead of something else. With fluidity and idiocy, he gets involved with whomever he wants, thus avoiding any and all reductive labeling attempts. A Montréaler and a co-founder of the &records label, he stumbles around in various bands: bob, Klaxon, Pink Saliva, (juste) Claudette, and Mecha Fixes Clock. A designer associated with stage arts, he refuses to grow softer. As proof, in dance he adds his ear to the choreographies of Catherine Tardif, Sylvain Émard, Louise Bédard, Shanti Wadge, and José Navas; in theatre, he scratches his head alongside Wajdi Mouawad, Robert Lepage, Brigitte Haentjens, Éric Jean, and Martin Faucher. So what's left? He favours plants, suffers from music-loving, is rather clean overall, and tends to keep in shape." ^ Hide Bio for Michel F Cote
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Track Listing:
1. Rubber Dollars 6:29
2. Rutabaga Lulu 4:34
3. Physical Potatoe 3:33
4. Les Eu 4:49
5. Aorilo 2:58
6. Lulu A Vu Le Hibou 3:28
7. Mouvements 6:24
8. Un Nour 3:13
9. Elle A Des Bou 6:42
10. Je Suis Un Animal 5:14
11. Tu M'vois 3:20
12. Paranoiak 2:15
13. Nombril / Fusil 7:15
14. La Bombe 2:29
15. Les Boites a Jojo 2:52
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