With a fourth album in the works, transcendence, the sublime, and letting go are on Portielje\u2019s mind. Since Half Moon Run\u2019s last album, A Blemish in the Great Light (Glassnote, 2019), there\u2019s been a global pandemic and a sea-change in the live music industry. Meanwhile, the band\u2019s put out three releases\u2014two EPs and a collection of reworked \u201cisolation versions\u201d of older songs. Plus, their fourth member, multi-instrumentalist Isaac Symonds, has moved on to a bucolic life out west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The remaining trio\u2014Portielje, Conner Molander, and Dylan Phillips\u2014are also the band\u2019s founding trio. Their fabled origin story involves a 2009 Craigslist ad, and a dingy Mile End jam space populated by a rising wave of Montreal musicians, including phenom Grimes. They spent those formative years generating not just their debut album, Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012) but also the restless, six-armed entity that composes their music and performs their live show. (All of Half Moon Run\u2019s members, past and present, are vocalists and multi-instrumentalists.) \u201cThe chemistry just fused,\u201d Molander says of that time. \u201cWe decided that we were going to drop everything else that we might want to pursue in our lives and just go full steam ahead with the band. I dropped out of university, we all quit jobs, took on debt. When I think back on that album, it must\u2019ve been by sheer force of desperation that something came across, because there was no turning back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Avec un quatri\u00e8me album en pr\u00e9paration, la transcendance, le sublime et le l\u00e2cher-prise refl\u00e8tent l\u2019esprit de Portielje. Depuis le dernier album de Half Moon Run, A Blemish in the Great Light (Glassnote, 2019), il y a eu la pand\u00e9mie mondiale et plusieurs changements dans l\u2019industrie du spectacle. Entre-temps, le groupe a sorti trois albums \u2013 deux EPs et une collection de leur r\u00e9pertoire en versions acoustiques. De plus, le quatri\u00e8me membre, le multi-instrumentiste Isaac Symonds, a quitt\u00e9 le groupe et entam\u00e9 une vie bucolique dans l\u2019ouest du pays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reste Portielje, Conner Molander et Dylan Phillips, le trio fondateur du groupe. Leur historique comprend une annonce Craigslist en 2009 et un espace de pratique sombre du Mile End, peupl\u00e9 d\u2019une vague montante de musiciens montr\u00e9alais, y compris la ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne Grimes. Ils ont pass\u00e9 ces ann\u00e9es formatives \u00e0 g\u00e9n\u00e9rer non seulement un premier album, Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012), mais aussi l\u2019entit\u00e9 agit\u00e9e \u00e0 six bras qui compose leur musique et assure leur spectacle en direct. (Tous les membres de Half Moon Run, pass\u00e9s et pr\u00e9sents, sont des vocalistes et des multi-instrumentalistes.) \u00ab La chimie a simplement fonctionn\u00e9 \u00bb, dit Molander de cette \u00e9poque. \u00ab Nous avons d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de laisser tomber tous nos projets de vies et d\u2019y aller \u00e0 fond avec le groupe. J\u2019ai abandonn\u00e9 l\u2019universit\u00e9, nous avons tous quitt\u00e9 nos emplois et accumul\u00e9 des dettes. Lorsque je repense \u00e0 cet album, c\u2019est s\u00fbrement d\u00fb \u00e0 la force du d\u00e9sespoir que quelque chose est apparu, car il n\u2019y avait pas de retour possible en arri\u00e8re. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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