Papa Boa

A Montreal avant-rock group with ties towards the Ambiances Magnétiques collective, Papa Boa is among the many tasks involving Bernard Falaise and Rémi Leclerc. The group writes complicated songs from studio improvisation classes, including a whole lot of sampling and oddities, and it is powered by Falaise’s extremely original guitar function. They will have one recording out. In 1991, Falaise, drummer Rémi Leclerc (of Miriodor and different tasks by André Duchesne), and bassist Frédéric Roverselli struck a companionship. From it arrived Papa Boa, initially a loose studio room collective to which reedist Pierre Labbé was later on added. All people (minus Labbé, a jazzman) possess a rock and roll history and their initial purpose was to explore freer buildings that would consist of electronics. Their initial experiments consisted mainly of improvisations. The group debuted on-stage in 1991 through the Celebration du Théâtre des Amériques in Montreal. Another few years noticed little activity, the machine being used mainly being a lab as Falaise and Leclerc’s information were constantly increasing in avant-rock circles. The group supplied the soundtrack to Michel Lefebvre and Eva Ouintas’ media function Liquidation in 1997. Engagements begun to stack up, leading to the period of 3 years. The quartet (sometimes augmented by guests such as for example Marcelle Hudon and storyteller Michel Faubert) performed concerts at different Quebec celebrations (Celebration des Musiques Fraîches in Quebec, Celebration des Musiques de Création in Jonquières). They constructed a repertoire of quirky, angular tracks and documented Tête ? Queue, their initial CD. It had been released in-may 1999 by Ambiances Magnétiques. Shows at the Celebration International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in-may 2000 as well as the 2002 Montreal Jazz Event elevated the group’s profile, however the members’ other tasks finally stated them back again and Papa Boa proceeded to go dormant.