Blood and Glass

Le duo montréalais Blood and Glass a été qualifié de « rencontre entre Tom Waits et une version industrielle de Sade » par le festival international POP Montréal.  

Proposition insolite? Vous n’imaginez même pas!

Punk Shadows, le nouvel album du groupe, capture parfaitement l’excentricité de la formation à travers ses humeurs ludiques et ses ambiances cinématographiques, tout en balançant l’équation d’une délicieuse dose de bizarrerie.

Blood and Glass s’est constitué autour de l’auteure-compositrice-interprète Lisa Moore, après son retour d’un périple new-yorkais, en 2013, au cours duquel elle a enregistré une série de maquettes. Peu de temps après son séjour aux États-Unis, sa rencontre avec le musicien montréalais Morgan Moore lui a permis d’achever ce qui allait devenir son premier EP.

Le duo a ensuite commencé à se produire en spectacle et s’est bientôt vu offrir du temps d’enregistrement gratuit au Planet Studios. Ainsi débuta la conception du premier opus de Blood and Glass. Avec l’arrivée de Robbie Kuster au sein de la formation, le groupe a pu écumer les salles partout à travers le Québec, l’Ontario et le nord des États-Unis.

Thus Owls

Thus Owls are a Montreal-based band built around the core of Swedish-Canadian couple Erika and Simon Angell. The two met in Amsterdam in 2007. At the time, Simon was touring internationally as a member of Patrick Watson’s band, and Erika was playing with Loney Dear, although both were also deeply immersed in the experimental pop and improvisational scenes in their respective hometowns. The two met, and their immediate musical attraction grew into something more personal. Before long, they were married and the collaboration that is Thus Owls was born.

Simon’s harshly charismatic guitar sound blends with the urgency of Erika’s vocals to create a sound that bends and stretches their unusual compositions into ever newer and surprising shapes. Their soulful adventurousness almost overshadows their musical fluency; pop and folk song forms are refracted through lenses of free noise, punk-rock skronk, and jazz precision. Thus Owls borrows from every corner of popular music, while pushing boundaries beyond any hackneyed genre classification. Humbly, Erika explains it away: “Our personal reason for creating music, to write and record our own music, is always to try to make something that is as genuine, original and personal as possible. It’s not an easy task with so much amazing music already made and so many directions to choose between.” Her mild words and tone stand in contrast to the striking emotional soundscapes they produce.