Our 1time guest is Ariane Moffatt for the release of his 7th album incarnate (Simone Records).
INCARNAT… in the flesh
20 years have passed since Aquanaut, the very first offering. So many years rewarded with dazzling encounters and crazy projects. To mark the occasion, Ariane Moffatt wanted to do things differently; approach the public in a stripped-down manner, without artifice. She first thought it would be by revisiting her repertoire for a solo piano tour, a simplicity she had never allowed herself before. She begins the process relentlessly through the hundred songs that make up her catalog. The idea is exciting, it becomes the promise to take a step with panache, to reach a still unknown horizon. But since the paths of creation are often unpredictable, an inevitable introspection awaited him in the detour. A sideways glance forced by the passage of time, the opportunity to listen to this powerful movement which stirred within her. Saying it again seemed strange. He had to name.
She diverts from the initial layout and launches into a first composition. The tone is visceral, intimate. We are at a time of vertigo in the face of irrepressible gestures. A trip to the heart of the volcano follows.
incarnate, this is the name given to a light and lively red-pink hue, close to flesh and autumn sunsets. A family of colors with the strength to support the unexpected, the need.
incarnate this is the tone of this new opus crossed by the franchise. A poetry without mask moved among other things by desire, questions around filiality, the desire for an extraordinary elsewhere and the influence of ordinary days.
The austerity desired at the start will have tinged all of Incarnat’s texts with a certain, fragile, sometimes brutal intimacy. Here, naming becomes a form of resistance in the face of contrary winds, the gaze turned towards the beauty of the world; an oscillation between the sublime and impotence.
Incarnat was written, composed and recorded in Montreal, from one fall to another, crossing 2019 until 2020 against the backdrop of a global pandemic.
And for a magnificent duo, from Paris to the Mile End, traveled the evocative voice of Lou Doillon on Never too late (free adaptation of Everybody’s gotta learn sometimepopularized by beck in the soundtrack of the film Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind). The author Fanny Britt put her translucent words on the music of Ariane, thus signing the text of Phaedrus in Forest.
March 2021, Ariane Moffatt delicately unveils incarnatehis seventh album of original songs.
Tracks played from the album incarnate
– Beauty see the clip
– Never too late
– incarnate see the clip
– Nature see the clip
+ bonuses see the clip Hope.
Then we get another Montrealer Pierre Kwenders who presents his 3th album José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts).
Pierre Kwendersco-founder of moonshine collectivemusician, songwriter and DJ of Congolese origin based in Montreal, announces José Louis and the Paradox of Love which will be released on April 29, 2022, on Arts & Crafts. The first single Papa Wemba is a tribute to the king of Congolese rumba and pioneer of sapology, has already attracted the attention of many media.
Born in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kwenders borrows his stage name from his grandfather, a businessman and highly respected local figure. Following in his mother’s footsteps, Kwenders immigrated to Montreal from the Congo in 2001. He was immersed in music from an early age. This first earned him the reputation of an energetic dancer during family reunions, then it was within a choir that he continued to express his art. Inspired by “sagacity”, a way of life invented by the Ivorian singer Douk Saga, which means working hard to be able to play hard, he has established himself today through three albums as an architect of modern African music. Pierre Kwenders creates a unique blend of Afro-influenced electronic sounds inspired by Congolese Rumba that he propagates with Moonshine, an Afrocentric multidisciplinary artist collective co-founded by Pierre Kwenders in 2014 that celebrates musical and artistic diversity and clubbing. As of this writing, Pierre Kwenders is in his home town of Kinshasa for the launch of Papa Wemba.
José Louis and the Paradox of Love is his third album where he pays homage to his native land and to all the people who have influenced him throughout his career. This 3rd album marks the arrival of the artist at a new turning point in his artistic career. He is freely inspired by his multiple cultural heritage. A storyteller at heart, Kwenders is inspired by the subtleties of love. Her songs weave stories from memories of the past, sketches of her hometown and thoughts about the future. Recorded for four years in different cities, across borders, and with many collaborators, including Win Butler, King Britt, Ngabo, Songe, anaiis, Babel Bukasa, Michael Brun, Uproot Andy and Africa Intshiyetu Choir, José Louis and the Paradox of Love is the culmination of personal development and musical dexterity that Kwenders has honed over the years.
Furthermore, Pierre Kwenders is working on a documentary Zaire Space Program, of which here is act 1.
Tracks played taken from the album José Louis and the Paradox of Love
-Church
– Cut
– Papa Wemba see the clip
– No No No
-Sahara
+ bonuses see the clip Kilimanjaro.
Realization : Laurie Plisson.