{"id":125893,"date":"2024-09-02T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=agenda&p=125893"},"modified":"2024-09-23T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:37:03","slug":"pop-montreal-the-barr-brothers-juana-molina-kee-avil","status":"publish","type":"agenda","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/agenda\/pop-montreal-the-barr-brothers-juana-molina-kee-avil\/","title":{"rendered":"POP Montr\u00e9al : The Barr Brothers + Juana Molina + Kee Avil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Barr Brothers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barr Brothers sont une groupe musical avec leur base d\u2019op\u00e9rations \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, au Qu\u00e9bec. Leur son est principalement aliment\u00e9 par la batterie polyrythmique et enjou\u00e9e d\u2019Andrew Barr, la guitare de son fr\u00e8re Brad Barr, et les prouesses innovatrices \u00e0 la harpe de Sarah Pag\u00e9, qui a \u00e0 elle seule red\u00e9fini cet instrument et son usage. De la basse, de la guitare pedal steel, des claviers et des cuivres vont et viennent librement dans le mix. Autant \u00e0 l\u2019aise avec les ballades arcadiennes solennelles qu\u2019avec les improvisations nord-africaines mar\u00e9cageuses ou avec le rock\u2019n\u2019roll plus classique, The Barr Brothers continuent d\u2019embrasser et d\u2019enchanter les spectateurs avec leur approche musicale \u00e0 la fois m\u00e9thodique et fantaisiste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To begin their third album, The Barr Brothers weren\u2019t writing any songs. For the first time, the Montreal outfit\u2019s three members \u2013 namesake siblings Brad and Andrew Barr, harpist Sarah Pag\u00e9 \u2013 went empty-handed into the studio. No plans or preconceptions, no books of lyrics or sheets of chords \u2013 they went down miles of snowy road to a cabin on a frozen lake, a place full of windows and microphones and starlight and sunshine, with amplifiers in the bedrooms, their volumes turned up loud. On the fringes of Saint Zenon, Qu\u00e9bec (pop. 1,1150), a 30-minute snowmobile ride to the nearest grocery store, the band spent seven days making things up. Improvisations that lasted hours at a time \u2013 noons and midnights, dusks and dawns, with grooves inspired by India, West Africa and 808s; by Brad\u2019s scorching electric guitar; and by Pag\u00e9\u2019s new inventions, hacks to turn her harp into a versatile, sub-bass-booming noisemaker. Queens of the Breakers was born at that cabin in the country. Then the band took that racket and distilled it into songs: 11 tracks of blazing courage and failing resolve; suffused with groove, melody and the Barr Brothers\u2019 wide-open sense of the blues. At times the sound\u2019s all twinkling, the score for a lost John Hughes film; at other times it\u2019s whetted, searching, like the stuff of Lhasa de Sela or Led Zeppelin\u2019s III. These are tales of teenagers prowling through Rhode Island mansions (the title track), coming to Montreal and falling in love (\u201cSong That I Heard\u201d), tattered patriotism and clenching fists (\u201cKompromat\u201d, \u201cReady for War\u201d). There\u2019s also \u201cDefibrillation\u201d, a mournful letter from a father to his son, inspired by the broken rhythm of a pair of hospital heart monitors \u2013 and a drumbeat based on that dither. It\u2019s this tension, this dither, that lives at the centre of Queens of the Breakers. Three players \u2013 friends, comrades, music-makers, all of them trying to play in sync. Three bandmates \u2013 each of them fumbling, remembering, trying to invent something together. A band still playing, even occasionally reimagining, their rock\u2019n\u2019roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juana Molina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ma\u00eetre de la pop exp\u00e9rimentale myst\u00e9rieuse, Juana Molina est reconnue comme l\u2019une des artistes les plus originales et visionnaires du moment. Son parcours professionnel a \u00e9t\u00e9 unique, depuis son succ\u00e8s initial en tant qu\u2019actrice comique tr\u00e8s populaire dans son Argentine natale, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019abandon de sa carri\u00e8re t\u00e9l\u00e9visuelle en 1996 et sa d\u00e9cision de se consacrer \u00e0 forger son propre style de musique inimitable, qui lui a valu une reconnaissance mondiale en tant qu\u2019artiste d\u2019enregistrement et de tourn\u00e9e salu\u00e9e par la critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A master of mysterious experimental pop, Juana Molina is recognized as one of the most original and visionary artists around. Her career trajectory has been a unique one, from her initial success as a massively popular comedic actress in her native Argentina, to the abandonment of her television career in 1996 and her decision to devote herself to forging her own, inimitable style of music, which gained her worldwide recognition as a critically-lauded recording and touring artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kee Avil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

La productrice montr\u00e9alaise Kee Avil combine guitare, voix et production \u00e9lectronique dans des chansons d\u00e9construites qui s\u2019inspirent d\u2019un m\u00e9lange distinctif de sensibilit\u00e9 avant-pop, glitch, post-industrielle et folk exp\u00e9rimental. Son dernier album, Spine, est sorti chez Constellation en mai 2024 en tant qu\u2019Album Bandcamp du jour et a \u00e9t\u00e9 largement salu\u00e9 par la critique. The Line of Best Fit a affirm\u00e9 que \u00ab Spine confirme la virtuosit\u00e9 de l\u2019esth\u00e9tique et de la production de Kee Avil, comparable \u00e0 Jlin ou SOPHIE \u2014 produisant un glitch suintant et caverneux, truff\u00e9 de manipulations \u00bb, tandis qu\u2019Uncut a d\u00e9crit sa musique comme \u00e9tant \u00ab profond\u00e9ment intime et intens\u00e9ment troublante\u2026 comme une forme de vie extraterrestre tortillant ses mandibules \u00bb. Spine a fait l\u2019objet d\u2019un article dans The Wire, qui a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que \u00ab les grooves squelettiques de Kee Avil nous frappent avec une intimit\u00e9 urgente \u00bb, tandis que The Quietus a salu\u00e9 son intensit\u00e9 contenue : \u00ab Spine mijote, fr\u00f4lant l\u2019\u00e9ruption. Les sons s\u2019agitent comme du gel sous pression \u00bb. Spine \u00e9largit la palette sonore de Kee Avil avec une intensit\u00e9 d\u00e9taill\u00e9e, r\u00e9v\u00e9lant une nouvelle pr\u00e9sence convaincante dans le monde de la chanson exp\u00e9rimentale, o\u00f9 les pierres de touche sont PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE et Lucretia Dalt ; dans un univers o\u00f9 Juana Molina collabore avec Coil et o\u00f9 Grouper se fond \u00e0 Autechre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montreal producer Kee Avil combines guitar, voice, and electronic production into deconstructed songs informed by a distinctive blend of avant-pop, glitch, post-industrial and experimental folk sensibilities. Her latest album Spine was released on Constellation in May 2024 as Bandcamp Album of the Day, garnering widespread critical accolades. The Line of Best Fit declared \u2018Spine affirms Kee Avil\u2019s status of an aesthetics and production virtuoso comparable to Jlin or SOPHIE \u2013 producing a dripping, cavernous version of glitch slammed with manipulations.\u2019 while Uncut described it as \u2018Deeply intimate and intensely unsettling\u2026 like an alien lifeform flexing its mandibles.\u2019 Spine was featured in The Wire, stating \u2018Kee Avil\u2019s skeletal grooves hit with an urgent intimacy.\u2019 while the Quietus applauded its restrained intensity \u2018Spine simmers, sashaying close to eruption. Sounds worm around like squeezed gel.\u2019 Spine expanded Kee Avil\u2019s sonic palette with intensive detail, revealing a compelling new voice in experimental songcraft, where touchstones include PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE and Lucretia Dalt; where Juana Molina collabs with Coil, or Grouper melds with Autechre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LES BILLETS POUR CE SPECTACLE SONT \u00c9PUIS\u00c9S!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n