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Événements passés et à venir
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Fri 13 Mar 2020 • 08:00 pm (POSTPONED) Lower Dens • :3LON Bar Le Ritz PDB - Montréal
Albums disponibles
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Jackie Leung – Inside Out : Piano Music by Alvin Singleton Jackie Leung – Inside Out : Piano Music by Alvin Singleton 2026 Contemporary by Frédéric Cardin -
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The Holland Court Jazz Trio – Inverted Tango The Holland Court Jazz Trio – Inverted Tango 2026 Jazz by Frédéric Cardin -
Eldritch Priest – Too, So Like Nothing Eldritch Priest – Too, So Like Nothing 2026 Contemporary by Frédéric Cardin -
Raymond Roussel – No One Asked Us Yet Raymond Roussel – No One Asked Us Yet 2026 Contemporary Jazz by Frédéric Cardin -
Rite of Strings – Dust and the Moon Rite of Strings – Dust and the Moon 2026 Musiques du Monde by Frédéric Cardin -
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Stranger Still – We Might Not Tell Everybody This Stranger Still – We Might Not Tell Everybody This 2026 Contemporary / Folk / trad by Frédéric Cardin -
Alabama Shakes – I Must Be Dreaming Alabama Shakes – I Must Be Dreaming 2026 Rock / southern soul by Michel Labrecque -
Chris Potter – Alive With Ghosts Today Chris Potter – Alive With Ghosts Today 2026 Jazz by Frédéric Cardin -
Cheryl Duvall – Linda Catlin Smith : The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume II: The Underfolding & Early Works Cheryl Duvall – Linda Catlin Smith : The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume II: The Underfolding & Early Works 2026 Contemporary by Frédéric Cardin -
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“The juxtaposition of grit and beauty is the very essence of my art,” says Baltimore singer/songwriter/producer Elon Battle, aka :3LON. “It’s my favourite way to convey drama. I want people to feel heaviness and ethereal all at once. I want people to rage and mosh but cry and be vulnerable at the same time.”
That’s a difficult balance to strike, and to achieve it, :3LON practices a volatile alchemy. His is a unique and startling blend of sweet R&B, lush ambient, tough beats and industrial crunch. In a raw and delicate countertenor, he weaves epic yet intimate tales inspired by fantasy RPGs and Japanese animation.
“Aggression and softness. Brooding torment and violent happiness. That’s what I like about anime, it sends you through a range of emotion.”
:3LON’s “Aria of Resilience”, released last September as a precursor to a forthcoming EP, is exemplary of his approach,
“The producer, Sentinel, and I exchanged quite a few ideas about what images the song we wanted to make would provoke,“ Battle recalls. “We talked about medieval fantasy steampunk concepts, and what life in that world would entail. We agreed that we wanted to create something with an industrial, death-metal feel fused with classical elements.”
They did so, and the classical element, a memorable harp medieval lick, came from a surprising source. It’s a brilliant creative gesture in principle that totally works musically.
“Sentinel mentioned that he had heard something about a song that was written secretly in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, and we began to do research. He found this video clip of someone playing out the notes that were written on the butt of a character in the Bosch painting ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’.
“Sentinel sampled the clip he found and began to chop it, then build around it. I immediately began writing lyrics, everything happened really fast. I wanted to tell a story about a person left behind after their loved one has gone to fight in a war against uprising forces. We got our friend Mathew Sea to add some finishing touches, and to mix and master. The rest was history.”
As one might expect, an artist of such pronounced contrasts is unlikely to limit himself to the nightclub stage, and the alternatives Battle explores are elaborate and startling.
Last year, Battle contributed to Circuit City, a choreopoem concocted by Philadelphia musician/composer Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa of Black Quantum Futurism Collective. “I think we’ll be doing more of that this year,” Battle notes,
Meanwhile, “Aria of Resilience” has inspired Petrichor, a video installation by Swiss-based South Korean artist Sinae Yoo (with Battle in the short film’s cast), currently popping up at high-end European galleries.
The sweaty little showbar remains a platform for Battle, though, and so he’ll be opening for savvy, subtly political synth-pop act Lower Dens (likewise from B-more) this week – looks like Friday the 13th is lucky, for a change.
