Plants and Animals est un trio montr\u00e9alais dont les membres jouent ensemble depuis l\u2019enfance. La formation, qui s\u2019est fait conna\u00eetre sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale en 2008, fait aujourd\u2019hui l\u2019objet d\u2019un v\u00e9ritable culte aupr\u00e8s d\u2019un public vari\u00e9, tant pour ses albums autoproduits que pour ses vibrantes prestations.<\/p>\n
En 2013, apr\u00e8s les nominations, les passages \u00e0 d\u2019importantes \u00e9missions radio et t\u00e9l\u00e9 et les spectacles en premi\u00e8re partie d\u2019artistes reconnus; apr\u00e8s les tourn\u00e9es en t\u00eate d\u2019affiche en Am\u00e9rique du Nord et en Europe, les membres du groupe d\u00e9cident de ralentir.<\/p>\n
Et ralentir signifie pour eux faire de la musique comme avant. C\u2019est le d\u00e9but d\u2019un processus d\u2019enregistrement intermittent qui s\u2019\u00e9tendra sur deux ans. Un moment de repos, comme en ont souvent besoin les groupes qui ont vu beaucoup de pays et pass\u00e9 peu de temps chez eux. Heureux de dormir dans leur propre lit, ils concevront donc un album \u00e0 travers neuf saisons et tout ce que la vie peut apporter : naissances, morts, aubes grandioses, cr\u00e9puscules bouleversants, et toutes les journ\u00e9es qui coulent entre les deux. Intitul\u00e9 Waltzed in from the rumbling, leur nouveau disque est une danse des jours.<\/p>\n
Faire de la musique comme avant signifie suivre un fil jusqu\u2019au bout. Ils enregistrent tout ce qui leur passe par la t\u00eate et effectuent des changements impulsifs. Comme un flux de la conscience, les paroles adoptent la forme qu\u2019il faut. L\u00e0 o\u00f9 elles ont du charme, on laisse les erreurs, pr\u00e9f\u00e9rant r\u00e9v\u00e9ler que dissimuler. Le chanteur y agit comme ing\u00e9nieur de son, le guitariste, comme pianiste baroque, et le batteur sert d\u2019\u0153il int\u00e9rieur-ext\u00e9rieur. Ils invitent leurs amis \u00e0 chanter, \u00e0 jouer de la basse et des claviers, des cordes et des cuivres. Un vieux guiro et un magn\u00e9toscope obsol\u00e8te trouv\u00e9s sur un trottoir sont tous deux enregistr\u00e9s. D\u2019un frigo vide, ils tirent des sons dignes d\u2019une timbale. Ils capturent les comm\u00e9rages v\u00e9h\u00e9ments d\u2019adolescentes \u00e0 bord d\u2019un autobus. Ils d\u00e9couvrent que le gars qui passe son temps dans la cuisine est en fait un magicien de la cabasa. Tout trouve sa place. Ils prennent la voie de la grande production. Ils baissent les stores et d\u00e9voilent leur c\u0153ur, leurs os.<\/p>\n
\u00c7a rappelle la fois o\u00f9 ils ont tous l\u00e2ch\u00e9 leurs boulots en m\u00eame temps pour se rassembler dans un appartement bancal de l\u2019avenue du Parc et cr\u00e9er leur premier album.<\/p>\n
\u00ab \u00c7a ressemblait plus \u00e0 un studio d\u2019artiste qu\u2019\u00e0 une salle d\u2019enregistrement, explique Warren Spicer. Le bordel, les bouts de chansons partout\u2026 On avait une \u00e9norme toile, et on n\u2019arr\u00eatait pas de remplir les coins, d\u2019effacer, de repeindre des bouts, de reculer pour contempler l\u2019ensemble, voir ce qu\u2019on avait. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Les influences sont vastes et diverses : le soul bris\u00e9 de Van Morrison, la g\u00e9om\u00e9trie oblique de J Dilla, le funk sombre de Gainsbourg, le feu du John Coltrane Quartet, la synesth\u00e9sie de Messiaen, les bizarreries d\u2019Angelo Badalamenti. Du Plants and Animals grand ouvert avec de l\u2019espace pour bouger.<\/p>\n
\u00ab On voulait pousser nos chansons dans des directions moins \u00e9videntes pour garder l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat, raconte Matthew Woodley. Nous surprendre entre nous, et imaginer que ceux qui nous \u00e9couteraient appr\u00e9cieraient tout autant. Mais d\u00e8s qu\u2019on sentait que l\u2019intellect prenait le pas sur l\u2019\u00e9motion, on l\u00e2chait tout et on passait \u00e0 autre chose. \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab On s\u2019est pouss\u00e9s les uns les autres et on s\u2019est \u00e9cout\u00e9s comme jamais auparavant, dit Nic Basque. C\u2019\u00e9tait amusant, et beaucoup plus facile que par le pass\u00e9. Travailler, tout simplement \u2013 c\u2019est comme \u00e7a que les gens d\u00e9veloppent leur langage, peu importe ce qu\u2019ils font. C\u2019est ce qu\u2019on a fait. \u00bb<\/p>\n
C\u2019est le recueil musical le plus profond et inventif qu\u2019ait propos\u00e9 Plants and Animals \u00e0 ce jour. Onze pi\u00e8ces pleines de bonds en avant, de bateaux qui passent, d\u2019eaux sombres et de ciels roses. Waltzed in from the Rumbling sort le 29 Avril prochain sur Secret City Records.<\/p>\n
They have been nominated for big awards. They have appeared on major radio and television programs. They have opened for household names and headlined many tours of their own around North America and Europe. In 2013, they decided to slow down.<\/span><\/p>\n By slow down, they meant make music the way they used to. It was the beginning of what would be an on-and-off recording process stretched out over two years. It was a time of rest, as the story often goes, for a band that had seen plenty of touring and not enough home. They slept in their own beds and made their new album through nine seasons and the thick of life. Through births and deaths, most notably\u2014magnificent sunrises, shattering sunsets and the days between. Their new LP is called Waltzed in from the Rumbling. It is a dance of days.<\/p>\n By make music the way they used to, they meant to follow threads to their frayed ends. They recorded any ideas that popped up and edited impulsively. Lyrics were often streams of consciousness, bent into shape. They left mistakes in place where they had their charms, looking to expose rather than conceal. The lead singer doubled as engineer, the lead guitar player as baroque pianist, the drummer as inside-outside eye. They called in friends to sing, to play bass, keys, strings and horns. They found an antique guiro next to an obsolete VCR on the curbside and recorded both. They made an empty fridge sound like a timpani drum. They covertly recorded girls’ brash gossip on a city bus. They discovered the guy who always hung around in the kitchen was a cabasa wizard. It all found a place. They took the path of big production. They pulled down the curtains and showed their hearts and bones.<\/p>\n It felt like the time that they quit their day jobs, holed up in a crooked apartment on Parc Avenue and made their first record.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0It was more like an art studio than a recording studio,\u00a0\u00bb says Warren Spicer. \u00ab\u00a0A mess, pieces of songs all over the place. We had this big canvas and were constantly filling in corners here, erasing there, repainting that part, standing back and looking at the whole picture to see what we had.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n The influences are far and wide: the broken soul of Van Morrison; the off-kilter geometry of J Dilla; the dark, French funk of Serge Gainsbourg; the fire of John Coltrane’s quartet; Messiaen’s synaesthesia; the quirk of Angelo Badalamenti. It sounds like P&A, wide open with room to move.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0We wanted to push the songs in less obvious directions to keep it interesting,\u00a0\u00bb says Matthew Woodley. \u00ab\u00a0To keep each other on our toes but also imagining that people listening to it would appreciate the same. But if it ever felt like cleverness was taking precedence over feeling, we’d drop what we were doing and move onto something else.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0We pushed each other and we listened to each other more than ever before,\u201d says Nic Basque. \u00ab\u00a0It was fun and much easier than in the past. You just work\u2014that’s how people develop their language in whatever they do. That’s what we did.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n This is Plants and Animals’ most soulful and inventive collection of music yet. Eleven soundtracks for leaps taken, ships sailed, dark water and pink skies. Waltzed in from the Rumbling comes out on Secret City Records on April 29, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C\u2019est le recueil musical le plus profond et inventif qu\u2019ait propos\u00e9 Plants and Animals \u00e0 ce jour. Onze pi\u00e8ces pleines de bonds en avant, de bateaux qui passent, d\u2019eaux sombres et de ciels roses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3008,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[94,100,102,97],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n