Artists
From March 10 to 14, you will see about thirty artists that will be on stage to celebrate the end of winter and set the tone for this year full of culture!
The action began around 2002, in a shed amongst piles of Bridgestone all season tires, cans of 10W-30 motor oil and an ergonomic lawn mower of unknown origins. From this eclectic scenery, a small instrumental prog-rock band with psychedelic accents called Les Pouilleux Phoriques was born. Some years later, after landing in Montreal, two of the band members decided to continue the endeavour under the name DEUX POUILLES EN CAVALE.
2 Pouilles en Cavale
Sunday March 14th
@ Chez Baptiste | 9:00 pm — free
Ancestors is a Toronto quartet creating raw, primal music that’s delivered in short, thunderous bursts, both on wax and via their chaotic live performances.
Panopticon Eyelids + Ancestors + Fear Eat Soul
Wednesday March 10
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $8
Ben Vida has been writing, recording and releasing records for over ten years, both with such bands as Town & Country, Singer and DRMWPN as well as solo under the name Bird Show. He has released records with many labels including Thrill Jockey, Drag City, Kranky, Amish and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
Mountains + Ben Vida’s Bird Show + Dog Bless You & Mr Bios
Wednesday March 11th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $10
Braids, although routinely classified as experimental pop, can be found exploring the depths of ambient melodies and experimental textures. Their nomadic approach to music allows for an nontraditional and free creative vision that is distinctly their own.
Clues + Braids + Oromocto Diamond
Friday March 12th
@ Sala Rossa | 8:30 pm — $15
Clues began building in secret in the summer of 2007, playing a series of un-advertised shows in small Montreal venues. Emerging above-ground in 2008, their first performances elicited passionate responses from both audiences and music media.
Clues + Braids + Oromocto Diamond
Friday March 12th
@ Sala Rossa | 8:30 pm — $15
Montreal's The Darling DeMaes never seems to be exactly where you'd expected. Via a strangely pertinent arrangement of sounds à la Radiohead, the Beatles White album and motown, DeMaed's pop music bases its self on bitter-sweet lyrics delicately delivered by a male-female tandem, accompanied by pernicious melodies.
Darling Demaes + Murder Ford Monument
Saturday March 13th
@ O Patro Vys | 8:30 pm — $8
David Daniell and Douglas McCombs first met in early 2006 while touring as members of Rhys Chatham's six-guitar "Die Donnergötter" band. Following that tour, the two spent several months trading albums and discussing making music together; they began their musical collaboration when Daniell moved from New York to Chicago later that year to study pedal steel guitar.
David Daniell & Douglas McCombs (of Tortoise) + Hoefizer
Friday March 12th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 9:00 pm — $12
Dog Bless You is the solo brain child of Samuel Ricciuti, a multi-faceted musician and videographer. Jagged rythms, vast atmosphere plains and carefully constructed samples serve to illustrate the darker side of this creator's personality.
Mountains + Ben Vida’s Bird Show + Dog Bless You & Mr Bios
Wednesday March 11th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $10
Ghidrah is the three-headed power-noise/drone monster featuring Martin Dumais, Eric Quach & Reuel Ordonez.
Ghidrah + Tom Carter + Zaimph
Saturday March 13th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $10
Hoefizer is David Mitchell from Montreal, who also plays in Saccidananda.
David Daniell & Douglas McCombs (from Tortoise) + Hoefizer
Friday March 12th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 9:00 pm — $12
Locomotiv! Is a hypnotic and powerful vehicle for rock music. Between Black Sabbath and Miles Davis, where harmony and dissonance meet and where chaos flirts with structure is where the music of Locomotiv! Emerges.
Locomotiv + The Scroll
Sunday March 14th
@ Divan Orange | 8:30 pm — $8
Man An Ocean is the result of utter lassitude with pop music and a need for more personal, emotional music. The instrumental offerings of Man An Ocean can easily take the listener on a sentimental voyage of conflicting emotions. The artist truly opens the most intimate facets of his being, readily sharing precious life experiences.
Voilà! + Man An Ocean
Wednesday March 10
@ Divan Orange | 9:00 pm — $8
Millimetrik, lo-fi ambient ambassador Pascal Asselin, has been crafting honest, vivid musical landscapes taking sounds from hip-hop, shoegaze and classic to a new more bass oriented sound.
Millimetrik
Sunday March 14th
@ Boul Noir | 9:00 pm — free
Here is a performance that gently mixes Sylvie Paquette’s sensuality with Monsieur Mono’s nostalgia. Here is an ideal occasion to witness two renowned signer-songwriters perform each other’s material.
Monsieur Mono & Sylvie Paquette
Sunday March 14th
@ Verre Bouteille | 8:00 pm — $10
Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, friends since their middle school days. The duo were brought together by mutual artistic and musical interests, and both ended up at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that they began exchanging musical ideas and compositions which led to them founding the Apestaartje label in 1999. As their collaborations and individual projects blossomed, they decided to create Mountains as a vehicle for live performance.
Mountains + Ben Vida’s Bird Show + Dog Bless You & Mr Bios
Thursday March 11th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $10
In many regards, the musical identity of Murder Ford Monument seems to have emerged much like a persons character develops. A person who's many facets and sounds mix with the landscapes he's seen or simply dreamed to form his fundamental fabric.
Darling Demaes + Murder Ford Monument
Saturday March 13th
@ O Patro Vys | 8:30 pm — $8
After a pilgrimage in New Brunswick, Sam Murdock (Lesbo Vrouven) and Pascal Asselin (Millimetrik) had a revolutionary vision of a meteorite crashing into the small town of Oromocto, a revelation that will unfold on five recordings (3 cds & 2 vinyls) over 18 months.
Clues + Braids + Oromocto Diamond
Friday March 12th
@ Sala Rossa | 8:30 pm — $15
Panopticon Eyelids have been deconstructing rock music since 2003. The band has 2 records and a bunch of EPs to it's credit chronicling that era.
Panopticon Eyelids + Ancestors + Fear Eat Soul
Wednesday March 10
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $8
'The Scroll don’t just touch on a variety of musical forms, they kick the shit out of them with songs ranging from wistful, to edgy, to utterly psychotic.' Mike Adair (Exclaim!*@#)
Locomotiv + The Scroll
Sunday March 14th
@ Divan Orange | 8:30 pm — $8
Best known for his work with acclaimed iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton.
Ghidrah + Tom Carter + Zaimph
Saturday March 13th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $10
Voilà! Is a cinematographic universe in which the sombre and melancholic scenery of the streets of Krakow scramble to make room for the up-beat and festive mood of an Andalusian bistro after passage through the thick fog of Vladivostok docks. Sometimes in black and white, other times in bright color, this film will muster reactions from all who see it. This unique incarnation of music is mostly instrumental but sometimes colors its imagery by using different languages such as French, Russian, English and Spanish.
Voilà! + Man An Ocean
Wednesday March 10
@ Divan Orange | 9:00 pm — $8
Artist and musician Marcia Bassett began releasing solo works as Zaïmph in 2003, appropriating the name from Gustav Flaubert's hallucinatory novel Salammbô.
Ghidrah + Tom Carter + Zaimph
Saturday March 13th
@ Casa Del Popolo | 8:30 pm — $10
