Les Poules

Les Poules began being a part task for Joane Hétu (vocals, sax), Diane Labrosse (keyboards), and Danielle Palardy Roger (drums), 3 people from the feminist collective Wondeur Brass. The discharge of their 1st LP in 1986 cemented the human relationships as well as the musical strategy of the trio: a partially improvised type of artificial avant-pop. The people continued to take part in many other tasks. In 2000, the trio itself was resurrected as a free of charge improv device and a fresh CD arrived in 2002. The entire year is 1986, the positioning Montréal. Several avant-rock feminists continues to be active for a couple of years beneath the name Wondeur Brass. Began as a politics music theater, they have evolved right into a provoking experimental pop group. At that time Hétu, Labrosse, and Roger, the three most avant-gardist components of the collective, experienced the necessity to retract from your huge ensemble (which includes counted as much as nine users at one stage) to focus on their personal small-scale task, christened Les Poules — “the chicks,” a bitter name for feminists. The music on Les Contes de l’Amère Loi, released in 1986, displays a sharper concentrate than Wondeur Brass’ Ravir (1985): post-new-wave in soul, chilly, and chaotic, the tunes left more space to improvisation yet loaded more punch. Rather than bringing back again the other users of WB, on hiatus, the trio made a decision to sack them and hire bassist Marie Trudeau. This quartet documented Simoneda, Reine des Esclaves beneath the moniker Wondeur Brass before switching to Justine and liberating two even more albums in the ’90s. Hétu, Labrosse, and Roger continuing to focus on each other’s single tasks and co-run the creation organization SuperMémé-SuperMusique, but everyone thought Les Poules was a task of days gone by. In 2000, Hétu, Labrosse, and Roger performed in Victoria and Vancouver, Canada, like a trio once again and the usage of their outdated group name emerged naturally. A season afterwards, Ambiances Magnétiques reissued Les Contes de l’Amère Loi on Compact disc as well as the trio shown a concert in Montréal. No nostalgia can be involved, the outdated repertoire continues to be buried. The brand new Poules enjoy quiet free of charge improvisation. Lyrics possess devolved into abstract vocalizations, the key pad licks have grown to be treated examples, the beats possess converted into textural percussion function. Prairie Orange arrived in 2002.