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Electro-Pop

Festival Nuits d’Afrique presents Poirier with Juju le Moko & Empress Cissy Low

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« J’ai toujours vu la musique, et encore plus la mienne, comme un pont entre les cultures et les communautés » (Métro, 2020). Autant son dernier album, Soft Power, sorti en juin 2020, mise sur un son planétaire, autant, par ses multiples collaborations, il surfe sur l’identité montréalaise, les origines multiples de ses artistes, sa cohésion sociale exceptionnelle. Fil conducteur qui relie avec minutie les rythmes du Brésil à ceux du Mozambique, ceux d’Haïti à ceux de la Mauritanie, ceux du Mexique à ceux de la Jamaïque, l’électro pop du producteur et DJ est festive, énergisante et porteuse d’espoir.

“I’ve always thought of music, especially my own, as be a bridge between cultures and communities” (Journal Métro, 2020). In the same way that his latest album, Soft Power, released in 2020, encapsulates a world of sound, this musician-producer-DJ continually draws on Montreal’s character, the diverse origins of its artist and its extraordinary social cohesiveness. His electropop acts as a thread connecting different rhythmic styles, Brazilian to Mozambican, Haitian to Mauritanian, Mexican to Jamaican, creating a music that is festive, energizing and full of optimism.

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Electro

Le Festival International Nuits d’Afrique présente Ifriqiyya Électrique

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« La transe, la vraie, est au cœur de l’expérience Ifriqiyya Electrique, comme un écho millénaire à l’origine sacrée de tous les arts premiers » (FIP). François R. Cambuzat a vécu plusieurs vies, joué avec Dizzy Gillepsie à New York et interviewé Iggy Pop, avant de débuter de nouvelles aventures. Gianna Greco, rebelle, avide de liberté, de justice et d’authenticité, fugitive elle aussi, l’a croisé dans son autre part. Ensemble, genre de Beat Generation 2.0, ils décochent un son électro tout terrain, rugueux et chaotique. Brut, vrai et exaltant. Un son extrême, comprimé entre les rituels d’Afrique du Nord et les basses impudiques, qui, prêt à exploser, confronte, étourdit et soigne les esprits.

“Trance, the real deal, is at the heart of the Ifriqiyya Electrique experience, like an echo stretching back a thousand years to the sacred source of all primitive arts,” (FIP). François R. Cambuzat has had a few incarnations, including as a young musician playing with Dizzy Gillespie in New York and a budding journalist interviewing Iggy Pop, which have always led him to new adventures. Gianna Greco, a rebel hungry for freedom, justice and authenticity, and also a fugitive of another time when she met Cambuzat. Together, creating a kind of Beat Generation 2.0, they fire off their all-out electro—raw, authentic and exuberant. Hovering between North African ritual and brazen bass sounds, this intensity, always ready to erupt, confronts, stuns and heals the spirit.

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Afro House / Afro-Colombian / Electro

Ghetto Kumbé au Ministère

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Ghetto Kumbé c’est un combo de sorciers chanteurs et percussionnistes qui convoquent les publics du monde entier et les esprits paiens de la rumba digitale et consciente. Impossible de résister à leur rituel de danse-transe. En cause, un élixir puissant à base de percussions, de beats électro caribéens, de rythmes traditionnels ouest africains et afro-colombiens, le tout gorgé d’Afro House.

Avec ses sonorités musicales africaines et de la côte caraïbe colombienne comme la Gaita, les voix mystiques, les grandes variétés de percussions et de rythmes traditionnels, mêlés à une élégante production électronique Tech/House, Ghetto Kumbé crée un paysage sonore afro-futuriste dynamique, engagé et inspirant. 

Ghetto Kumbé is a combo of singing and percussionist wizards who summon audiences around the world and the pagan spirits of digital and conscious rumba. Impossible to resist their dance-trance ritual. It’s a powerful elixir of percussion, Caribbean electro beats, traditional West African and Afro-Colombian rhythms, and Afro House.

With African and Colombian Caribbean sounds such as Gaita, mystical vocals, wide varieties of percussion and traditional rhythms, mixed with elegant Tech/House electronic production, Ghetto Kumbé creates an dynamic, engaging and inspiring Afro-futuristic soundscape. 

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Breakbeat / Hip Hop

Duel Vol 1 – Combat de beatmaking avec OCLAZ • Lowpocus • BANK$TA • Wizurd • Funkywhat • Neko • Giiifted • LastFlightOut • Rekha • NIMBUS2k • Shkeme Wavy • Marabout • ZoePound • Burrows • Ngneer • Jei Bandit

by Patrick Baillargeon
Electro-Jazz / Indie Pop / Jazz / Trip Hop

Elliot Moss + Laura Derover

by Alain Brunet

From New York, Elliot Moss is both a visual artist and songwriter. The sweet melodies carried by his high-pitched, ashen voice, sometimes filtered by Auto-Tune (reminiscent of James Blake at times), blend into a housey, jazzy soul-synthpop, adorned with a few instruments played in real time — at least in the studio. Obviously, Moss knows the virtues of a songwriting hook, and moreover he knows how to deftly shift moods from one song to another. He also knows how to make good use of modular synthesizers, to fluff things up a bit. Following the gems he’s scattered to date, what‘s next for Moss? This Montreal concert should give us a few clues… In the same spirit, the very talented Laura Derover offers delicate synthpop, a little more complex than Moss’s, mixed with jazz and chamber music from the classical tradition. Listen carefully to this Dutch singer, who could turn out to be a discovery of 2020.

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Afro Latin

Mateo • Tumbao

by Patrick Baillargeon
Garage Rock / Rock

Double Date With Death • Debate Club

by Louise Jaunet

Photo credit: Rowan Fraser-Taylor

L’Au-Delà, released at the beginning of January, is the second album from Double Date With Death, with a cover designed by none other than Elzo Durt, one of the masters of psychedelic visuals in recent years. The band doesn’t even hide it, it’s clearly influenced by Californian psychedelic garage rock (think Thee Oh Sees or Ty Segall, to name only the most famous). In this case, however, the Montreal band has chosen to express itself in French. The album, recorded, produced and mixed by Guillaume Chiasson (Ponctuation, Jesuslesfilles), is divided into eight short tracks just psychedelic enough to take us on a journey to the beyond.

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Africa / Afrobeat

WorldWild Soundsystem invites Analog Africa

by Louise Jaunet

Samy Ben Redjeb is the founder of the Analog Africa label, based in Frankfurt, Germany. A true archeologist of musical treasures, he travels in South America and Africa to unearth tropical sounds, Afrobeat, cumbia and salsa from the 1960s and 1970s. The result of all this work is a panoply of compilations of totally unheard, groovy and catchy sounds. He’ll be sharing his gems when he hits Montreal for the first time, to the delight of ears in search of exotic discoveries.

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Electro-Pop / Pop / soul-pop / Synth-Pop

Anna of the North

by Alain Brunet

Norwegian songwriter Anna Lotterud is known publicly under the pseudonym Anna of the North – for obvious reasons. In this case, indie pop, synth pop, soul pop and dream pop all contribute to a resolutely… pop approach. Melodic accents, consonant harmonies, romantic themes… nothing could be more pop. For the moment, the economy of means and artifices confers upon this Scandinavian singer expressing herself in English (perfected during an extended stay in the Antipodes) a freshness and lightness beyond the apparent conformity of her songs. If all goes well for Anna of the North, the stopover at Ministère should be a step towards much larger venues – not a foregone conclusion, despite the esteemed success of the albums Lovers (2017) and Dream Girl (2019).

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Experimental / Contemporary / Pop

U.S. Girls + Lune très belle = sold out

by Alain Brunet

Photo: Julio Henriquez

Meghan Remy, an American transplant based in Toronto, is the pilot of U.S. Girls, whose eighth album, Heavy Light, will be released on March 6. If an early taste is what you want, too late, her show at Le Ministère is already sold out. It’s not unreasonable to presume that the band will be back soon enough to meet the demand. So while awaiting the release of her opus and her next Montreal stopover, we can share a few clues: on the Royal Mountain (Canada) and 4AD (international) labels, Heavy Light is a composite album: disco-funk, indie chamber pop, rock, lounge jazz, chanson d’auteur… Meg Remy and her ace team have put together some very ambitious arrangements with sensitive, subtle and often self-deprecating lyrics. Read more here on 6 March!

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Amazigh / Maghrebi / Synthwave

Flèche Love

by Alain Brunet

Flèche Love is of Amazigh (Berber) origin, lives in Switzerland and presents herself as a citizen of the world, striving to transcend her cultural heritage through superb, multilingual auteur pop. She’s eloquent, imposing on stage, haughty despite her delicate physique. Amina Cadelli’s (real name) powerful voice and excellent delivery are propelled by a globalized strain of synthwave, adorned with touches with hip hop, Berber, Mediterranean, Iberian and more. Without a doubt, Flèche Love is a unique figure with multiple identities, and whose story is just beginning.

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