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Half Moon Run at MTELUS

Wed 13 Dec 2023 • 08:00 pm Alt-Pop / Indie Rock
MTELUS - Montréal 119$
· by Rédaction PAN M 360

With a fourth album in the works, transcendence, the sublime, and letting go are on Portielje’s mind. Since Half Moon Run’s last album, A Blemish in the Great Light (Glassnote, 2019), there’s been a global pandemic and a sea-change in the live music industry. Meanwhile, the band’s put out three releases—two EPs and a collection of reworked “isolation versions” of older songs. Plus, their fourth member, multi-instrumentalist Isaac Symonds, has moved on to a bucolic life out west.

The remaining trio—Portielje, Conner Molander, and Dylan Phillips—are also the band’s founding trio. Their fabled origin story involves a 2009 Craigslist ad, and a dingy Mile End jam space populated by a rising wave of Montreal musicians, including phenom Grimes. They spent those formative years generating not just their debut album, Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012) but also the restless, six-armed entity that composes their music and performs their live show. (All of Half Moon Run’s members, past and present, are vocalists and multi-instrumentalists.) “The chemistry just fused,” Molander says of that time. “We decided that we were going to drop everything else that we might want to pursue in our lives and just go full steam ahead with the band. I dropped out of university, we all quit jobs, took on debt. When I think back on that album, it must’ve been by sheer force of desperation that something came across, because there was no turning back.”

Avec un quatrième album en préparation, la transcendance, le sublime et le lâcher-prise reflètent l’esprit de Portielje. Depuis le dernier album de Half Moon Run, A Blemish in the Great Light (Glassnote, 2019), il y a eu la pandémie mondiale et plusieurs changements dans l’industrie du spectacle. Entre-temps, le groupe a sorti trois albums – deux EPs et une collection de leur répertoire en versions acoustiques. De plus, le quatrième membre, le multi-instrumentiste Isaac Symonds, a quitté le groupe et entamé une vie bucolique dans l’ouest du pays.

Reste Portielje, Conner Molander et Dylan Phillips, le trio fondateur du groupe. Leur historique comprend une annonce Craigslist en 2009 et un espace de pratique sombre du Mile End, peuplé d’une vague montante de musiciens montréalais, y compris la phénomène Grimes. Ils ont passé ces années formatives à générer non seulement un premier album, Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012), mais aussi l’entité agitée à six bras qui compose leur musique et assure leur spectacle en direct. (Tous les membres de Half Moon Run, passés et présents, sont des vocalistes et des multi-instrumentalistes.) « La chimie a simplement fonctionné », dit Molander de cette époque. « Nous avons décidé de laisser tomber tous nos projets de vies et d’y aller à fond avec le groupe. J’ai abandonné l’université, nous avons tous quitté nos emplois et accumulé des dettes. Lorsque je repense à cet album, c’est sûrement dû à la force du désespoir que quelque chose est apparu, car il n’y avait pas de retour possible en arrière. »


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