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Come up with by Montreal guitarist André Duchesne, Les 4 Guitaristes de l’Apocalypso-Bar was a conceptual guitar quartet (as well as drums), something seldom noticed before. His longest-lasting task (four years), it had been also one that got probably the most worldwide attention, because of the current presence of ex-Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler (some state it served because the blueprint for the Fred Frith Acoustic guitar Quartet). The group released two LPs on Ambiances Magnétiques in 1987 and 1989, although game titles and recording times are willingly misleading; in the end, this is a music group from the near future. As proof this, both albums had been reissued in 1995 by ReR Megacorp beneath the name Globe Tour 1998. In the first ’80s, André Duchesne was composing avant-rock songs, something similar to This Heat having a Quebec twist (observe his LP Le Temps des Bombes, 1984). But by 1986, he was focusing on some contrapuntal items for acoustic guitar quartet, a mix between Robert Fripp’s round motifs and Fred Frith’s angular playing. He drafted René Lussier and Jean-Pierre Bouchard, co-workers from the past due-’70s avant-folk collective Conventum, and Roger Boudreault. The Event International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville indicated curiosity to premiere the task in Oct 1986, but Duchesne still required a drummer. He rang up Chris Cutler, as previous Henry Cow users as well as the Ambiances Magnétiques collective had been multiplying collaborations and organizations at that time (Lussier and Frith would play like a duo at FIMAV that 12 months, as well). Cutler’s group Cassiber had been area of the festival’s lineup, therefore arrangements had been made as well as the 4 Guitarists from the Apocalypso-Bar started rehearsals. Duchesne experienced a concept, influenced from the ghost of Jimi Hendrix himself (roughly the tongue-in-cheek liner records towards the 1st LP mentioned). This is the resident music group in the Apocalypso-Bar, a joint in post-apocalypse Canada. These were sleek, these were warm, they obeyed all of the laws and regulations of early 20th hundred years dance rings: They wore white fits and tiger ties, sat right down to play (the soloing guitarist surely got to operate), and bowed down together to applause. The studio room work Tournée Mondiale/Été ’89 arrived in 1987. The group toured Canada, the U.S., and European countries, showing up at, among other areas, YOUR KITCHEN in NY. A second recording was documented in early 1989 (Fin de Siècle, once again before its period), but at that time, Duchesne had been experiencing complications keeping the music group jointly. Claude Fradette changed Boudreault and youthful Miriodor drummer Rémi Leclerc stuffed in whenever Cutler was unavailable. Even so, the idea was wearing slim, therefore the group divide soon after. Duchesne continued to create Locomotive, getting along Fradette and Leclerc.
