The end of the last millennium and the beginning of the new they represented a small, big revolution in the music scene of Montreal, beyond Italo-disco, jazz and current music.
The first thing you think of is obviously post-rock: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion and Esmerine. Then the scope widens and embraces pop, techno, indie but also sound art, field recording, drones and film music, from Arcade Fire to BIG|BRAVE passing through the soundtrack of the film “Tu Dors Nicole” (2014) by Stéphane Lafleur, closed by Sean Nicholas Savage's most famous song, “Disco Dancing”.
Montréal is a mass of communities from all over the world and is emblematic of their fruitful coexistence which is expressed above all in the meeting between the arts guided by music, in which the languages of film, dance, poetry, electronic and digital arts converge.
It is the city of Constellation and Arbutus Records, located between post-rock, songwriting and clubbing, between performing arts and multimedia (Martin Messier, Godspeed, Jerusalem In My Heart, Fly Pan Am, Marie Davidson). It is the place where the body melts into sound (Colin Stetson and Jason Sharp) and where Vic Chesnutt's latest albums (“North Star Deserter“, 2007, and “At The Cut“, 2009) and Matana Roberts' “Coin Coin” project are welcomed and incubated, the first chapter of which (“Gens de Couleur Libres“, 2011) was recorded in the Hotel2Tango studios by Radwan Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart, Land of Kush).
Happy listening… and happy travels!
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