Octobre

With an initial album released in 1973, Octobre (the name originates from the bout of terrorism Quebec lived through in October 1970) preceded with a couple of months the arrival of Beau Dommage and Harmonium over the Quebec music scene, becoming among the first francophone sets of the province (with Offenbach) to keep its mark. Even more intellectual than these rings, they didn’t reach the same well-known success, but nonetheless remain an important element of Quebec ’70s rock and roll. In 1969, vocalist/keyboardist Pierre Flynn, his cousin guitarist Jean Dorais, and his friend bassist Mario Légaré had been teenagers playing music with the Rolling Rocks, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan within an undocumented music group known as Gladstone, which lasted more than a calendar year. Légaré, Flynn, and regional drummer Pierre Hébert produced Maelstrom (also undocumented) in 1971, an organization concentrating on francophone rock and roll. In 1972, Dorais quit the group Jude 3 (a prototype from the prog rock and roll outfit Pollen) to become listed on them, and Octobre quickly information a demonstration tape, accompanied by an initial LP, eponymous, released in June of another yr. The first choice was 18 years of age. Flynn’s seductive tone of voice, extreme lyrics, and dashing-young-man-with-a-somber-air appears won them instant media insurance coverage. Their music was affected by British intensifying rock and roll (they opened double for Ruler Crimson in 1973), but also from the French vocalist/songwriters, specifically Jacques Brel. Unlike Harmonium and Beau Dommage, typically the most popular Quebec sets of the ’70s, Octobre under no circumstances utilized acoustic guitars; their appear was electrical, rooted in town life. The music “La Maudite Machine” (“The Damn Machine”) was quickly hailed like a rebellious anthem with a era of Montrealers. From 1973 to 1976, the group played a growing number of displays and released two additional studio room albums, Les Nouvelles Terres (1974) and Survivance (1975), each 1 expressing more technical and mature music concepts. The group got a hiatus in 1976-1977 to focus on their 4th LP L’Autoroute des Rêves, their most ambitious record. It offers orchestral arrangements as well as the jazziest music Flynn ever had written. The album premiered from the main CBS (right now Sony). In 1978, Octobre returned to the level having a grandiose concert in the Théâtre Saint-Denis in Montreal with four horns and three history vocalists. Regarded their finest hour, the present premiered that same calendar year as the two-LP established Chants Dans la Nuit. Another dual album, a assortment of songs off their initial three LPs, premiered with the group’s previous label. Hébert quit to become session musician, leading to the initial transformation of lineup because the group’s inception. Drummer Richard Pelletier was recruited for a couple concerts in 1979, along with saxophonist Gerry Leduc. By 1980, all main record labels had been bailing from the francophone Quebec marketplace — the failing of the initial referendum for self-reliance sends Quebec vocalist/songwriters towards the gutter. non-etheless, the group done their 5th and last LP, Clandestins (1980, Kébec Disk), that was a go back to rock and roll basics. Hébert returned for the documenting and some concerts. However the fresh sound left viewers rather cold as well as the music artists didn’t possess as very much fun because they utilized to a decade before. The group performed their last display in August 1982. By that point, Pierre Flynn experienced started employed in Plume Latraverse’s music group. His 1st solo recording, Parfums du Hasard, arrived in 1987. Dorais also documented a single LP (Radio-actif, 1985) before obtaining a job like a pc specialist. Légaré and Hébert could be noticed on a large number of information by the very best Quebec performers from the ’80s and ’90s. André Ménard, movie director from the Montreal Jazz Event, asked Octobre to reunite for just one night time in 1989. The display was documented and four songs had been included on the 1995 two-CD collection 1972-1989. The discharge of this established provided the group the event to tour Quebec one final time.