cover Growlers Choir
Country : Québec Label : Disques Victo Genres and styles : Choral Music / Hardcore / Métal Year : 2023

Growlers Choir : Live au FIMAV

· by Réjean Beaucage

We told you about their appearance at FIMAV in 2021, because it sounded like something to see; well, the recording of the concert eloquently demonstrates that it was also something to listen ! The initial idea was really risky: you can like the singular voice of the growlers who scream in front of metal bands, but to gather about fifteen of them? Really?

Coming from an electroacoustic background, Pierre-Luc Sénécal, who came up with the idea for the project, saw in these howls of zombified corpses and other songs from beyond the grave a material to be kneaded, objects to be put in relation by superimposing them to obtain rough textures or rich harmonic sonorities. And then these singers have quite solid abilities in the section of mouth noises and bestial grunts. In the three-part piece Hydra, which explores different facets of the voice, it snorts on a middle note! We already knew that the artistic director of the Victoriaville Festival has a soft spot for vocal explorers like Koichi Makigami, Jaap Blonk, Tanya Tagaq and Yamatsuka Eye (who will be at the festival this year); the Growlers’ concert must have satiated him. Obviously, the images that these voluntarily threatening voices inevitably provoke, it still puts a bit of a heavy atmosphere between the two ears, so much so that we even welcome with pleasure, like a light kiss, the very metal musical accompaniment, explosive guitar and double bass drum, which slips behind the choir in Hate Machine. If you don’t listen to it twice in a row, it doesn’t mean that you won’t come back to it.
The result proves that Sénécal was right to go ahead with this original project. So right, in fact, that after this concert at FIMAV in May 2021, the choir found itself competing in the main stream TV show America’s Got Talent in June 2022, before giving a concert at Foufounes Électriques the following month! There is no other artist who could follow such a route, and that, in itself, speaks volumes!

This album cannot be streamed. To convince you to buy it at Disques Victo, let’s suggest you this introduction, the piece “Hate Machine” on Bandcamp.

Latest 360 Content

Semaine du Neuf | The Power of the Organ and the Wind

Semaine du Neuf | The Power of the Organ and the Wind

Semaine du Neuf | Sturm und Klang

Semaine du Neuf | Sturm und Klang

Semaine du Neuf | Collectif9 : musical hero for everyone

Semaine du Neuf | Collectif9 : musical hero for everyone

Semaine du Neuf | Afghanistan, looking back at us

Semaine du Neuf | Afghanistan, looking back at us

Turtle Skull – Heavy as Hell

Turtle Skull – Heavy as Hell

Bob Em – Johnie Worker

Bob Em – Johnie Worker

Semaine du Neuf | There Is No Music Without the Wind. L’être contre le vent by Matthias Krüger

Semaine du Neuf | There Is No Music Without the Wind. L’être contre le vent by Matthias Krüger

Lemon Lemon – Hammock

Lemon Lemon – Hammock

Ooberfuse – “Hard Times ft Snoop Dogg”

Ooberfuse – “Hard Times ft Snoop Dogg”

Semaine du Neuf: Architek Percussion au service de 2 architectures

Semaine du Neuf: Architek Percussion au service de 2 architectures

Deena Abdelwahed’s Swana electro: syncretism, commitment, a new standard

Deena Abdelwahed’s Swana electro: syncretism, commitment, a new standard

Disaster Pony

Disaster Pony

The Cool Trad of Nicolas Boulerice and Frédéric Samson

The Cool Trad of Nicolas Boulerice and Frédéric Samson

Semaine du Neuf | VIVIERMIX // QUASAR + NEM + FIOLÛTRÖNIQ

Semaine du Neuf | VIVIERMIX // QUASAR + NEM + FIOLÛTRÖNIQ

Jeremy Leon – Affinity

Jeremy Leon – Affinity

Florie Valiquette / Ensemble Il Caravaggio / Chœur de l’Opéra Royal / Camille Delaforge, dir. – Mademoiselle Duval : Les Génies

Florie Valiquette / Ensemble Il Caravaggio / Chœur de l’Opéra Royal / Camille Delaforge, dir. – Mademoiselle Duval : Les Génies

Reinoud van Mechelen / a nocte temporis / Choeur de Chambre de Namur – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre : Céphale et Procris

Reinoud van Mechelen / a nocte temporis / Choeur de Chambre de Namur – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre : Céphale et Procris

Semaine du Neuf | Lascaux + Mad Max

Semaine du Neuf | Lascaux + Mad Max

Semaine du Neuf | Psychedelic Afghanistan by Sam Shalabi and Shaista Latif

Semaine du Neuf | Psychedelic Afghanistan by Sam Shalabi and Shaista Latif

Semaine du Neuf | Sixtrum: the magic of… aquatic percussion!

Semaine du Neuf | Sixtrum: the magic of… aquatic percussion!

Semaine du Neuf | Ice, Creation, and Immersion

Semaine du Neuf | Ice, Creation, and Immersion

Tristan Murail – Le partage des eaux / Terre d’ombre

Tristan Murail – Le partage des eaux / Terre d’ombre

Subscribe to our newsletter