RITUELS

published on November 10, 2020

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Over the past few months, we've been thinking a lot about how to make the best of the current situation and the impossibility of presenting live concerts in the upcoming months. Our response is this: to create a series of concert recordings combining performance video with cinematographic footage, recorded in the highest quality (like a visual album). We call them film-concerts.

The first concert-film in the series, RITUELS, is a mystical artistic experience that brings together works by Hildegard von Bingen, Arvo Pärt, Nicole Lizée, Bryce Dessner, Michael Tippett, and Jocelyn Morlock. Our extensive technical set-up allowed us to take full advantage of the space at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, creating a whole that echoes the grandeur and depth of the pieces on the program.

The sound and images are already breathtaking and we can’t wait to share the finished project. In the meantime, here's a short video shot last year that features clips from the program.

WE NEED YOUR HELP

published on October 22, 2020

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We have some big projects coming up this year and we need your support to bring them to their maximum potential. Click below to contribute or to learn more about what we're up to.

BACKYARD CONCERT

published on August 8, 2020

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After almost 5 months without playing together, we finally got together again and gave a little concert for our neighbours. Since this in itself was a special occasion, we made a video - collectively (!) - filmed by friends and neighbours from their respective balconies. Here's the result!

Thanks to everyone who came to their balcony or came down to the alley to share this moment with us, and to all who contributed their video footage. We couldn't have done it without you!

RITUELS

published on February 29, 2020

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It is our great pleasure to finally reveal the teaser for our next show.

We hope to see you on May 2nd!

POSTPONED | RITUELS
May 2, 2020, 8pm (doors 7:30pm) > new date to be confirmed
Église Sainte-Cécile

7390, ave Henri-Julien, Montréal

(entrance on De Castelnau)

HEROES

published on December 18, 2019

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We can finally reveal our next project! It is an honor to have been invited for a second consecutive year to play in Nantes, not only to present several shows, but to create a brand new project to celebrate #Beethoven250.

We are delighted to present a first glimpse of HEROES, a music and video creation composed by a super duo: Myriam Boucher (with whom we collaborated for My Backyard, Somewhere) and Pierre-Luc Lecours!

Leading up to the show's premiere in Nantes in January 2020 (more details to come), we will be in creative residency at the Centennial Theater in Lennoxville - we will present the fruits of our work to the public on January 22nd. Come and join us if you can, it'll be something to see and hear!

HAPPY 1 YEAR

published on November 17, 2019

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To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the release of our album No Time for Chamber Music, we are sharing a very special track that inspired the title of the album but could not be included on the official release: here is our take on the 3rd movement of Berio’s Sinfonia. Originally written for orchestra and 8 amplified voices, this movement is a musical collage, full of quotes and references (Mahler, Stravinsky, Debussy, Berg, Ravel, Boulez, to name a few), using the Scherzo from Mahler’s 2nd symphony as its framework. It features text taken from several sources - spoken, whispered, shouted, and sung by each of us - the most prominent being Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable. The text and the music are a sort of stream of consciousness; all of the voices, instrumental or vocal, come together as the inner dialogue of an unnamed spirit. 

Special recognition goes to our dear friend Jen Thiessen, musician extraordinaire, for her incredible performance as main narrator on this track.