Esca’s New Album: A String Quartet’s Pop Challenge

Interview by Alain Brunet
Genres and styles : Chamber Pop / pop instrumentale

Additional Information

Very active on Quebec stages as accompanists, but also classically trained musicians working in the more serious spheres of music, four instrumentalists have chosen to take up the challenge of pop melody by becoming the “singers” of their new album. Homonymous, their third studio album is aimed at a wider audience, with an eye on the neoclassical, film music and instrumental pop markets. Released in November on the Juliette Records label and produced by its owners, the Twenty-Nines (Julie Lamontagne and Anthony Albino), Esca is making headway and its members plan to defend it on stage in 2025. In the meantime, they are defending the material, notably in this interview with Amélie Lamontagne (Esca’s 1st violinist) granted to Alain Brunet for PAN M 360.



 
Album credits
Musicians: Amélie Lamontagne, Edith Fitzgerald, Sarah Martineau, Julie Dessureault, Kaven Girouard, Julie Lamontagne, Anthony Albino
Production and arrangements:  Les Twenty-Nines
Sound recording and mixing:  Rod Shearer
Matrixing: Le Lab Mastering
Publishers: Disques Juliette, Les Éditions Esca, Éditions Clémentine

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