{"id":130199,"date":"2024-12-15T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/interviews-panm360\/nouvel-album-desca-le-defi-pop-dun-quatuor-a-cordes\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:42:27","slug":"nouvel-album-desca-le-defi-pop-dun-quatuor-a-cordes","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/nouvel-album-desca-le-defi-pop-dun-quatuor-a-cordes\/","title":{"rendered":"Esca&#8217;s New Album: A String Quartet&#8217;s Pop Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Very active on Quebec stages as accompanists, but also classically trained musicians working in the more serious spheres of music, four instrumentalists have chosen to take up the challenge of pop melody by becoming the \u201csingers\u201d of their new album. Homonymous, their third studio album is aimed at a wider audience, with an eye on the neoclassical, film music and instrumental pop markets. Released in November on the Juliette Records label and produced by its owners, the Twenty-Nines (Julie Lamontagne and Anthony Albino), Esca is making headway and its members plan to defend it on stage in 2025. In the meantime, they are defending the material, notably in this interview with Am\u00e9lie Lamontagne (Esca&#8217;s 1st violinist) granted to Alain Brunet for PAN M 360.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>\u00a0<br><strong><u>Album credits<\/u><\/strong><br><strong>Musicians:\u00a0<\/strong>Am\u00e9lie Lamontagne, Edith Fitzgerald, Sarah Martineau, Julie Dessureault, Kaven Girouard, Julie Lamontagne, Anthony Albino<br><strong>Production and arrangements:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Les Twenty-Nines<br><strong>Sound recording and mixing:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Rod Shearer<br><strong>Matrixing:\u00a0<\/strong>Le Lab Mastering<br><strong>Publishers:\u00a0<\/strong>Disques Juliette, Les \u00c9ditions\u00a0Esca, \u00c9ditions Cl\u00e9mentine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nouvel album d&#039;Esca : le d\u00e9fi pop d&#039;un quatuor \u00e0 cordes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lL3niD-WLfQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quatuor Esca - Carrousel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DOUEptty_38?start=10&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very active on Quebec stages as accompanists, but also classically trained musicians working in the more serious spheres of music, four instrumentalists have chosen to take up the challenge of pop melody by becoming the \u201csingers\u201d of their new album. 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