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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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David Bowie – The Shel Talmy Recordings David Bowie – The Shel Talmy Recordings 2026 Avant Folk / Folk Rock by Stephan Boissonneault -
Fat Dog – Cancel Me (I’m Tired) Fat Dog – Cancel Me (I’m Tired) 2026 Alt-Country / Alternative / Dance-Punk / Electro-Punk by Stephan Boissonneault -
Protomartyr – Hotel Usona Protomartyr – Hotel Usona 2026 Art Punk / Noise Rock / Post-Punk by Stephan Boissonneault -
Girl Ultra – RRRomeo Girl Ultra – RRRomeo 2026 Electro-Pop / Pop / Synth-Pop by Stephan Boissonneault -
Cameron Winter – Live at Carnegie Hall Cameron Winter – Live at Carnegie Hall 2026 Alt Folk / Neoclassical / Piano by Stephan Boissonneault -
Ian Noe – Canyon Falls Trailer Band Ian Noe – Canyon Falls Trailer Band 2026 Alt-Country / Americana / Country Blues / Country Folk / Country Rock by Stephan Boissonneault -
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight 2026 Doom Metal / Psych-Rock by Stephan Boissonneault -
Death Valley Girls – Welcome to Earth Death Valley Girls – Welcome to Earth 2026 Garage Punk / Garage Rock / Psychedelia by Stephan Boissonneault -
Samuel Bonnet Trio feat. Joe Magnarelli – Slow Samuel Bonnet Trio feat. Joe Magnarelli – Slow 2026 Jazz by Frédéric Cardin -
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Liberté Anne & Frotae – Volume 2 Liberté Anne & Frotae – Volume 2 2026 Avant-Garde / Contemporary / Free Improvisation 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.
