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Malika Tirolien’s reputation is well established, having been regularly invited to sing with the supergroup Snarky Puppy, having been the frontwoman of the excellent transcultural group Bokanté, having previously collaborated with a host of Montreal ensembles including the Kalmunity Project collective and Nomadic Massive as a guest, all the while leading a brilliant solo career.

Her team-mate is less well known, but the excellent Caulder Nash is much sought-after by many Quebec artists and groups as a keyboard sideman. This time, he’s the equal of his renowned colleague, and with good reason !

Inspired by their respective astrological signs, the GemeniCrab tandem, or if you prefer Gemini (Caulder) / Crab (Malika), are currently touring as a quartet, and have been able to summon up some excellent musicians to record their first album, Gen Y Lens, which will be performed at PHI Centre on November 28.

In fact, this is where it all began, as GeminiCrab’s take-off is the result of a residency that enabled these Montreal artists to benefit from binaural audio technology. For PAN M 360, Alain Brunet met them virtually before they set off on their European tour, returning in their hometown at the end of the month perfectly honed.

Photo: Yannis Davy

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This Wednesday, November 13, Étienne Hamel aka Nicolet launches his third album, Orées, at the Sala Rossa, patrolling the borders or observable limits of states of mind conducive to musical or poetic inspiration. These suggestions from the unconscious have been “captured” in his Sutton studio, where he has brought together some of the most eloquent musicians of their generation (25-35) to support the polished lyrics and evanescent voice of their employer. Étienne Hamel is perfectly capable of intellectualizing the creative process, although he knows that this never fully describes the creative work and the content of the inspiration in question. Alain Brunet joined him virtually in his studio for this substantial conversation.

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Woman of the stage, producer and director Nathalie Deschamps is behind the opera staging of Albertine en cinq temps, a classic by the celebrated Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay. Since the production returns to Montreal on December 3 and 4 at Théâtre Outremont, and since we’ve already spoken to Catherine Major, who composed the music for this opera/musical, the point of view of the original staging and conception is required to better understand its ins and outs. Who better to explain all this than Nathalie Deschamps? Alain Brunet spoke to her for PAN M 360.

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Montreal audiences rarely get the chance to see a Lebanese operetta. But on 16 November 2024 they will at Salle Pierre Mercure in Montreal. As part of the Festival du monde arabe 2024, the Al Arz troupe will be presenting Le vendeur de bagues by the Rahbani brothers, the Gilbert and Sullivan of 20th-century Lebanon. In this interview, Tony Yazbek, choreographer and director of the troupe, talks about the very Lebanese art of mixing genres between classical French operetta and Lebanese folk music, in truculent scenarios full of humour, endearing melodies, flamboyant costumes and overt stereotypes of orientalist exoticism.

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Under the direction of Matthias Maute, the ArtChoral ensemble invites music lovers to take a virtual stroll through the autumnal Paris of the previous century. In Montreal (November 8) and Quebec City (November 10), works by Fauré share the program with Édith Piaf and Yves Montand, not to mention their authors and composers, starting with Prévert and Kosma, to whom we owe Les feuilles mortes. Alexandre Villemaire met Matthias Maute for PAN M 360.

Yves Montand Les feuilles mortes
Edith Piaf La vie en rose, Non, je ne regrette rien and Hymne à l’amour
Gabriel Fauré Apres un reve and Au bord de l’eau

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Daran has been a household name in French-speaking America since 1992, and has since acquired Canadian citizenship, although he still travels back and forth between Quebec and France, where he regularly works as a producer. In October, he released his eleventh studio album, Grand Hôtel Apocalypse, which he will perform for the first time in Montreal as part of the Coup de cœur francophone, on Saturday November 9 at the Lion d’Or, preceded by Alicia Deschênes. From the outset, Daran’s rock songs have been both abrasive and meaningful, the expression of a quest for balance between polished lyrics and raw notes. Alain Brunet, who was the first Quebec journalist to interview him in April 1992 at the Printemps de Bourges festival, takes up the conversation with the artist who can now be considered as much a Quebecer as a Frenchman.

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To conclude this series of autumn concerts under the Malasartes banner, RadioTango invites fans of the Argentinian style to a Gran Milonga Gran, conducive to the subtleties of this singular art and essentially exploring the repertoire of the 20s and 30s. Mélanie Bergeron, bandoneonist, accordionist, pianist and even professional dancer, talks to us here about her colleagues, Damian Ninsenson, who was persuaded to embody this Argentinian spirit of another era in his native country, of course Argentina. Chantal Bergeron on violin, Francis Palmas Pelletier on double bass, Sebastian Verdugo on piano. Gran Milonga Gran completes the Malasartes loop at the Sala Rossa, this Friday, November 8. Alain Brunet conducted the interview for PAN M 360.

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For the first time in Montreal, Arion Orchestre Baroque will be conducted by Swiss violinist Leila Schayegh, “praised for her embodied and ravishingly cantabile playing” if we take up the description suggested by Arion. Corelli, Vivaldi, Muffat, Pisendel – what a grand tour of Europe! In this sense, the concertos on the program illustrate a diversity of Baroque styles representative of their era, and also highlight the shared or integrated influences of their creators. Between two rehearsals, Leila Schayegh tells us more about these notions and the specific characteristics of the works on the program for Saturday November 9 and Sunday November 10 at Salle Bourgie. Alain Brunet met her virtually for PAN M 360.

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PROGRAM

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in D major, op. 6 nº 4
Concerto Grosso in F major op. 6 nº 9

Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Sonata da camera nº 5 in G major, from Armonico tributo

Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) Concerto for violin in G major
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in A major for violin and violin in echo, RV 552
Concerto in D minor for two violins and cello, from L’estro armonico, RV 565

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Educated as a keyboardist in Tokyo, Miho Hazama has become one of the most promising and talented composers and arrangers of her generation in New York. She is clearly one of the successors to the established composers, arrangers and leaders of contemporary jazz, notably her teacher and mentor Jim McNeely, with whom she studied at the Manhattan School of Music. Her compositions include works written for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (JP), the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (SE) and the Metropole Orkest (NL). As a conductor, she has been associated with the Danish Radio Big Band, the Metropole Orkest, the WDR Big Band (DE), the Norrbotten Big Band (SE), the KORK Orchestra (NO) and the New York Jazzharmonic, to name but a few. Understandably, her first appearance in Montreal is an event for the local community of musicians and music lovers. The composer and maestra will conduct a program including her own works and others by Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Camila Meza and Christine Jensen. All of which justifies this interview between Miho Hazana and Alain Brunet.

MIHO HAZAMA AND ONJ PERFORM AT GESÙ, ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, AT 8PM. TICKETS AND INFO HERE

Artists in the program

MUSICAL DIRECTION | Miho Hazama

VOICE | Sienna Dahlen

VIOLONS 1 | Zoé Dumais, Alissa Cheung, Brigitte Dajczer, Geneviève Morasse

VIOLONS 2 | Vanessa Marcoux, Marie-Élodie Serfati, Salomé Perli, Brenn Adrien Dalle

ALTOS | Lana Tomlin, Julie Dupras, Julie Babaz

VIOLINCELLES | Elisabeth Giroux, Loredana Zanca

SAXOPHONES AND FLUTES | Jean-Pierre Zanella

SAXOPHONES, FLUTES AND CLARINETTES | André Leroux

SAXOPHONES, FLUTES AND CLARINETTES | Bruno Lamarche

SAXOPHONE BARYTON, CLARINETTE BASSE AND FLUTES | Samuel Blais

TRUMPETS | David Carbonneau, Bill Mahar

TROMBONE | David Grott

COR FRANÇAIS | Jocelyn Veilleux

PIANO | Gentiane MG

COUNTERBASS | Summer Kodama

DRUMS | Kevin Warren

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Chaâbi is a song form born in Algeria at the beginning of the previous century, an extrapolation of the Arabo-Andalusian legacy that has had a singular trajectory beyond Algeria. Now considered a consecrated form, the Nesraf group is arousing nostalgia among its fans, as well as a renewed interest in these tunes that have become mythical in the Maghreb and the Middle East. That’s why Keithy Antoine conducted this interview with Nassim Gadouche of Nesraf for PAN M 360.

As part of the FMA, Nesraf performs on November 8 at Salle Claude-Léveillée, PDA. Tickets and info here.

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Founded in 1987, Coup de cœur francophone is now in its 37th year in Montreal, with no fewer than 100 artists and groups taking to the stage from November 7 to 17. This is undoubtedly an illustration of the creative current in the field of francophone expression in America, whether in music or hip-hop, not to mention the influx of artists from the European francophonie. That’s why PAN M 360 invited Noémie Laniel, the CCF’s new head of programming, to explain the subtleties of the program. Alain Brunet met her by video-conference.

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It’s no coincidence that Fairouz Oudjida bears the same first name as the great Lebanese Diva Fairuz. And it would seem that this name predestined her to become the “Diva of the Desert”, as she is known to Algerian audiences. Indeed, the soprano singer blends classical music with traditional Berber-Arabic songs. She became soloist with the Algerian National Symphony Orchestra and received several awards, including one from the President of the Republic of Algeria. This is not her first appearance at the Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal, but for this 25th edition, she will be accompanied by a brand new ensemble on November 21 at the Gésu. Our journalist Sandra Gasana talks with her for PANM360.