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POP Montréal : The Barr Brothers + Juana Molina + Kee Avil

Thu 26 Sep 2024 • 08:00 pm Experimental Folk / Folk / Indie / Pop
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The Barr Brothers

The Barr Brothers sont une groupe musical avec leur base d’opérations à Montréal, au Québec. Leur son est principalement alimenté par la batterie polyrythmique et enjouée d’Andrew Barr, la guitare de son frère Brad Barr, et les prouesses innovatrices à la harpe de Sarah Pagé, qui a à elle seule redéfini cet instrument et son usage. De la basse, de la guitare pedal steel, des claviers et des cuivres vont et viennent librement dans le mix. Autant à l’aise avec les ballades arcadiennes solennelles qu’avec les improvisations nord-africaines marécageuses ou avec le rock’n’roll plus classique, The Barr Brothers continuent d’embrasser et d’enchanter les spectateurs avec leur approche musicale à la fois méthodique et fantaisiste.

To begin their third album, The Barr Brothers weren’t writing any songs. For the first time, the Montreal outfit’s three members – namesake siblings Brad and Andrew Barr, harpist Sarah Pagé – went empty-handed into the studio. No plans or preconceptions, no books of lyrics or sheets of chords – they went down miles of snowy road to a cabin on a frozen lake, a place full of windows and microphones and starlight and sunshine, with amplifiers in the bedrooms, their volumes turned up loud. On the fringes of Saint Zenon, Québec (pop. 1,1150), a 30-minute snowmobile ride to the nearest grocery store, the band spent seven days making things up. Improvisations that lasted hours at a time – noons and midnights, dusks and dawns, with grooves inspired by India, West Africa and 808s; by Brad’s scorching electric guitar; and by Pagé’s new inventions, hacks to turn her harp into a versatile, sub-bass-booming noisemaker. Queens of the Breakers was born at that cabin in the country. Then the band took that racket and distilled it into songs: 11 tracks of blazing courage and failing resolve; suffused with groove, melody and the Barr Brothers’ wide-open sense of the blues. At times the sound’s all twinkling, the score for a lost John Hughes film; at other times it’s whetted, searching, like the stuff of Lhasa de Sela or Led Zeppelin’s III. These are tales of teenagers prowling through Rhode Island mansions (the title track), coming to Montreal and falling in love (“Song That I Heard”), tattered patriotism and clenching fists (“Kompromat”, “Ready for War”). There’s also “Defibrillation”, a mournful letter from a father to his son, inspired by the broken rhythm of a pair of hospital heart monitors – and a drumbeat based on that dither. It’s this tension, this dither, that lives at the centre of Queens of the Breakers. Three players – friends, comrades, music-makers, all of them trying to play in sync. Three bandmates – each of them fumbling, remembering, trying to invent something together. A band still playing, even occasionally reimagining, their rock’n’roll.

Juana Molina

Maître de la pop expérimentale mystérieuse, Juana Molina est reconnue comme l’une des artistes les plus originales et visionnaires du moment. Son parcours professionnel a été unique, depuis son succès initial en tant qu’actrice comique très populaire dans son Argentine natale, jusqu’à l’abandon de sa carrière télévisuelle en 1996 et sa décision de se consacrer à forger son propre style de musique inimitable, qui lui a valu une reconnaissance mondiale en tant qu’artiste d’enregistrement et de tournée saluée par la critique.

A master of mysterious experimental pop, Juana Molina is recognized as one of the most original and visionary artists around. Her career trajectory has been a unique one, from her initial success as a massively popular comedic actress in her native Argentina, to the abandonment of her television career in 1996 and her decision to devote herself to forging her own, inimitable style of music, which gained her worldwide recognition as a critically-lauded recording and touring artist.

Kee Avil

La productrice montréalaise Kee Avil combine guitare, voix et production électronique dans des chansons déconstruites qui s’inspirent d’un mélange distinctif de sensibilité avant-pop, glitch, post-industrielle et folk expérimental. Son dernier album, Spine, est sorti chez Constellation en mai 2024 en tant qu’Album Bandcamp du jour et a été largement salué par la critique. The Line of Best Fit a affirmé que « Spine confirme la virtuosité de l’esthétique et de la production de Kee Avil, comparable à Jlin ou SOPHIE — produisant un glitch suintant et caverneux, truffé de manipulations », tandis qu’Uncut a décrit sa musique comme étant « profondément intime et intensément troublante… comme une forme de vie extraterrestre tortillant ses mandibules ». Spine a fait l’objet d’un article dans The Wire, qui a déclaré que « les grooves squelettiques de Kee Avil nous frappent avec une intimité urgente », tandis que The Quietus a salué son intensité contenue : « Spine mijote, frôlant l’éruption. Les sons s’agitent comme du gel sous pression ». Spine élargit la palette sonore de Kee Avil avec une intensité détaillée, révélant une nouvelle présence convaincante dans le monde de la chanson expérimentale, où les pierres de touche sont PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE et Lucretia Dalt ; dans un univers où Juana Molina collabore avec Coil et où Grouper se fond à Autechre.

Montreal producer Kee Avil combines guitar, voice, and electronic production into deconstructed songs informed by a distinctive blend of avant-pop, glitch, post-industrial and experimental folk sensibilities. Her latest album Spine was released on Constellation in May 2024 as Bandcamp Album of the Day, garnering widespread critical accolades. The Line of Best Fit declared ‘Spine affirms Kee Avil’s status of an aesthetics and production virtuoso comparable to Jlin or SOPHIE – producing a dripping, cavernous version of glitch slammed with manipulations.’ while Uncut described it as ‘Deeply intimate and intensely unsettling… like an alien lifeform flexing its mandibles.’ Spine was featured in The Wire, stating ‘Kee Avil’s skeletal grooves hit with an urgent intimacy.’ while the Quietus applauded its restrained intensity ‘Spine simmers, sashaying close to eruption. Sounds worm around like squeezed gel.’ Spine expanded Kee Avil’s sonic palette with intensive detail, revealing a compelling new voice in experimental songcraft, where touchstones include PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE and Lucretia Dalt; where Juana Molina collabs with Coil, or Grouper melds with Autechre.

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