GENEVIÈVE CASTRÉE

Geneviève Elverum, née Geneviève Gosselin, known as Geneviève Castrée, 

died saturday july 9th 2016 at 1 pm.

She was an incredibly sensitive and creative person. 

Her work is here with us. But we will painfully miss her.

Radio residency 5 - Final

— If you got ears — 

Radio residency of Myriam Gendron & Benoît Chaput, 

every wednesday of september 2015. CKUT 90,3 Montréal.

Poetry & folk.

5- 30/09/15 : Final show
http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20150930.12.00-14.00.mp3
(Sadly this archive is not available anymore)
Starts at 2:32

Playlist:

Artist  / Tittle / Album
Captain Beefheart -- Sure 'nuff 'n yes, I do -- Safe as Milk

Ry Cooder - Get away-- Performance soundtrack

The Rising Sons -- Walking down the line -- Rising sons
Rev. Gary Davis -- Please baby-- The guitar and banjo of…
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper -- Saudade do Santos-o-Velho -- Cantos da Lisboa
Rev. Gallen -- Irony -- (forthcoming album on the Okraina label)
Myriam Gendron  -- 31-10-2011 -- (unreleased song)
Sun Kill Moon - Glenn Tipton -- Ghosts of the great highway
Travelling Headcase -- Dear Heart walking --  (unreleased)
Stéphane Robitaille -- Vas-tu m'aimer? -- Fuck you mon amour
Pierre Barouh -- Ça va, ça vient -- Ça va, ça vient
Glenn Mercer -- Caroline says (VU cover) -- CDR
Kris Kristofferson -- Just the other side of nowhere (demo version) -- Please don't tell me
Smog--  In the pines --  A river…
Wild Lawns (Gabe Levine) -- St-Louis Square (unreleased)
Kevin Ayers  - Jolie Madame  -- Odd Ditties
Ted Lucas -- Baby where you are -- Ted Lucas
Elisa Ambrogio -- Arkansas --  The immoralist
Olafur Arnalds --Fyrsts -- Living room songs
Joanna Robertson  - Out - Black Moon Days
Anne Briggs -- Fine Horseman --  The time has come
Dick Gaughan -- Jock O' Hazeldean -- Never the same (comp.)
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn  -- After the dance -- Stepping Stones
The Feelies  -- Egytian Reggae (Modern Lovers cover) --  CDR
Glenn Jones  -- Barbecue Bob -- Barbecue Bob
Shanghai Gesture (movie excerpt)
Fred Gelach -- Mutadis Mutandis -- Songs my Mother never sang
Tom Waits -- All the world is green -- Blood Money
Robert Charlebois -- California -- Lindberg 

Radio residency 4

— If you got ears — 

Radio residency of Myriam Gendron & Benoît Chaput, 

every wednesday of september 2015. CKUT 90,3 Montréal.

Poetry & folk.

4- 23/09/15 : Show number four
http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20150923.12.00-14.00.mp3
(Sadly this link is not working anymore)
Starts at 5:56

Playlist:

Artist  / Tittle / Album
Captain Beefheart -- I love you, you big dummy-- Lick my decals off, baby

Roky Erickson-- Don't slander me -- Don't slander me

The Ex -- Eoleyo -- Catch my shoe
The Spies -- Egyptian bird song -- The battle of Bosworth terrace
Pauline Sniff-Sniff (Geneviève Castrée) -- Feuilles de laitue -- Feuilles de laitue
The Raincoats-- Ooh Ooh La la la -- Moving
Eddy Detroit -- Puzuzu-- Immortal gods
Travelling Headcase - Les sublimes maladresses -- Single
Nick Castel --Bulverhythe -- Water margin
Nick Castel -- The flying cloud -- Water margin
Cian Ethrie-- Track 33 -- Volatile
Chéri Bibi -- (from the marvellous radio drama based on Gaston Leroux's story)
Renée Claude -- Tu ne dis jamais rien (Léo Ferré cover)-- Chante Ferré
Léo Ferré --  Âme te souvient-il ? ((Paul Verlaine poem) -- Verlaine / Rimbaud
Brigitte Fontaine et Areski -- Le noir c'est mieux choisi -- Comme à la radio
Sir Richard Bishop - Hadija -- The Tangier sessions
Yiannis Xikouris -- I kriti ton oniron -- Cretian traditional melodies
Lum Guffin -- Old time piece -- Lum Guffin
Elisabeth Cotten --Oh babe, it ain't no lie  -- Freight train…
Marisa Anderon  - Hesitation theme - Mercury
Joel Grare -- Bruissement d'ailes… --  Follow
Glenn Mercer -- Roadrunner (Modern Lovers cover) -- (cdr)
Myriam Gendron -- Between the bars (Elliot Smith cover) -- unreleased cover
Françoise Hardy  -- Ma jeunesse fout le camp--  Ma jeunesse fout le camp
Richard Buckner -- Olie McGee + Fletcher McGee (Edgar Lee Masters poems) -- The Hill
Richard Buckner -- Julia Miller -- The Hill
Lal Waterson -- Never the same -- Never the same
Jackson C. Frank -- I want to be alone -- Jackson C. Frank
John Cale -- Cleo -- Vintage Violence
The Feelies - Fun to be happy (Love Tractor cover)  - Live cdr
Glenn Mercer- Words (Neil Young cover) - cdr

Radio Residency 3

— If you got ears — 

Radio residency of Myriam Gendron & Benoît Chaput, 

every wednesday of september 2015. CKUT 90,3 Montréal.

Poetry & folk.

3- 16/09/15 : Third show
http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20150916.12.00-14.00.mp3
(Sadly this link is not working anymore)
Starts at 3:35

Playlist:

Artist  / Tittle / Album
Captain Beefheart -- Floppy boot stomp-- Bat Chain Puller

Byron Coley-- Captain Beefheart (poem) -- Dating tips for touring bands

Captain Beefheart -- Tupelo -- Grow Finns
Muddy Waters -- Rolling Stone -- Sail on
Mississippi John Hurt -- Creole Belle -- Vol. 1 of original Piedmont
Barna Howard -- Timber, Nails and Tears -- Barna Howard
Kevin Ayers -- Lady Rachel -- Joy of a Toy
Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate  (poem) -- Lunapark 1
Dollar Brand / Johny Dyani --Nanhanje -- Echoes from Africa
(lost half the song as the turntable did something wild)!)
Cat Power -- Metal Heart -- Moon Pix
Tashi Dorji -- Few Thousand words without any -- Tashi Dorji
Bola Sete -- Morning rises thru the mist -- Jungle suite
Monique Morelli -- Catair de Chiala -- Mac Orlan
Éloïse Decazes -- La Glu -- Éloisse Decazes / Eric Chenaux
Éloïse Decazes / Delphine Dora -- Loosing Yelav -- Folk Songs Cycle
Reet -- Lauliku Lapsepöli -- Estonian Folk Songs
Maxine Funke -- Song from island -- Lace
Maxine Funke -- Winter Galaxy -- Lace
Angel Olsen -- White Fire -- Burn your fire
(a Raincoats song got lost to the dust!)
Sun City Girls - Eye Mohini - Singles vol. 3
Donavan -- Riki Tiki Tavi --  Open Road
Myriam Gendron -- Marcoux Labonté -- unreleased cover
White Magic -- One note --  Thru the sun door
The Feelies -- When company comes -- The good earth
The Gun Club -- Mother of earth -- Miami
Crazy Horse -- I don't want to talk about it -- Crazy Horse
Mike Watt -- Dirty Blue Gene -- Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish
(only the first minutes are on the archive)

Radio residency 2

— If you got ears — 

Radio residency of Myriam Gendron & Benoît Chaput, 

every wednesday of september 2015. CKUT 90,3 Montréal.

Poetry & folk.

I

2- 09/09/15 : Second show
http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20150909.12.00-14.00.mp3
(Sadly this link is not working anymore)
Starts at 3:29

Playlist :
Artist  / Title / Album
Captain Beefheart -- Odd jobs (piano demo)-- Grow Fins

Captain Beefheart -- Odd jobs (vocal demo)-- Grow Fins

Riley Walker -- On the banks of old Kishwaukee-- Primerose Green

Jack Rose -- Sunflower River Blues-- Kensington blues

Michael Chapman -- Last Polish Breakfeast -- Trainsongs

Fernando Pessoa -- O guardador da rebanhos -- poem 

Carlos Paredes -- Romance #2 -- Guitarra Portuguesa

Marisa Anderson -- Deep Gap -- Mercury

Townes Van Zandt  -- If I needed you (live) -- Be here to love me

Leonard Cohen - -Queen Victoria -- Live songs 

Myriam Gendron -- Avalanche --  (unreleased)

Karen Beth -- Come december -- The Joys of Life

Plume Latraverse -- Marie-Lou --  Live au cinéma Outremont
Plume Latraverse -- Sapolin No. 148 -- Pommes de route
Plume Latraverse -- Valse Bretonne -- Triniterre
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski -- Mephisto -- Le Bonheur
Plume Latraverse -- Hold-Up -- Pommes de route
Little Wings -- The way i deux -- Light green leaves
Michael Hurley -- Jocko's lament - Armchair Boogie
Michael Hurley -- Eldorado -- Ancestral Swamp
Robin Remaily -- Under the willow -- Blue Navigator #10 (cd in magazine)

John Fahey -- Westcoast blues - Blind Joe Death

Memphis Jug Band -- Stealin Stealin -- I'm in a strange town (Mississippi records)

Urbain Desbois-- Je ne suis pas seul -- Ma maison travaille plus que moi

Alejandro Escovedo -- Sex Beat-- Bourbonitis Blues

Yo la tengo -- The crying of lot g--  And then nothing turned itself inside out

Lauren Connors & Christina Carter -- Mirrors 1 -- Meditations of the ascension  of Blind Joe Death.

Radio Residency 1

— If you got ears — 

Radio residency of Myriam Gendron & Benoît Chaput, 

every wednesday of september 2015. CKUT 90,3 Montréal.

Poetry & folk.

I

1- 02/09/15 : First clumsy steps
http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20150902.12.00-14.00.mp3
(Sadly this link is not working anymore)
Starts at 1:57

Liste :
Artist  / Title / Album
Captain Beefheart -- I'm gonna booglarize you, baby -- The Spotlight Kid

Captain Beefheart -- Well -- Trout Mask Replica

Robbie Basho -- Blue Crystal fire -- Visions of the country

Glenn Jones -- The Teething Necklace (For John Fahey) -- Against which the sea continullay beats

Mississippi John Hurt -- Cow Hooking blues -- Folksongs and blues (the first volume of the original Piedmont recordings)

Mike Cooper -- Death Letter -- Oh Really!

Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper -- Pena Panorama -- Cantos de Lisboa

Travelling Headcase -- Psychedelic Tides (Symphonie Martenot) -- Revolutionary Ballads & Love songs

Travelling Headcase    -- Broken man -- Revolutionary Ballads & Love songs

Elizabeth Cotten - -Going down the road feeling bad -- Freight train and other North Carolina Folk songs and tunes 

(Two times in a row.!)

Elizabeth Cotten -- Live at Euphoria Tavern -- Elizabeth Cotten/ Marisa Anderson 7" 

( wrongly attributed to Marisa Anderson, and played at wrong speed!!)

Connie Converse -- Talkin' like you - - How sad, how lovely

Molly Drake -- Poor Mum --  Family tree

Nick Drake -- Winter's gone - Family tree

John Fahey -- When the springtime comes again -- The great Santa Barbara Oil Slick

Léo Ferré -- Les corbeaux -- Ferré chante Rimbaud

Renée Claude -- La mémoire et la mer -- On a marché sur l'amour: Renée Claude chante Léo Ferré

Anne Sylvestre -- J'ai rien à dire --  Anne Sylvestre

Robert Charlebois -- Le mont Athos -- Le mont Athos

Pierre Brasseur -- Deux poèmes de Benjamin Péret

Robert Charlebois -- Terre Love -- Le mont Athos

Van Morrison -- Fair play to you -- Veedon Fleece

(Silence, and a part of Griffith Bucks Blues by  Riley Walker)

Not so deep as a well

Live at Casa del Popolo on january 17th 2014.
Picture by Maïcke Castegnier.

Myriam Gendron is central to L'Oie de Cravan's activity for many very good reasons. But this is about her own stuff : she is about to release an album of songs based on Dorothy Parker's poetry. It will be called Not so deep as a well and will be released in mid-february 2014 on Feeding Tube Records (vinyl) and Mama Bird Recording Co. (digital). You can check out her Tumblr right here and listen to Solace, the first song from that forthcoming album.  She also just recently started a Facebook page here.

This is what Byron Coley and Richard Meltzer wrote about the album :

I can say w/out caveat or fear of folly that the disc you now hold is the hottest—and FINEST!—Impossible Love collection in, I dunno, 30 years.  35!  (True.) 

Richard Meltzer, Portland, 2014.

«Not So Deep as a Well» is a wonderful debut album, similar to certain obscure progenitors but possessed of a startling and original grasp of aesthetic holism. It is also a goddamn trip to hear. Enjoy.                             

Byron Coley, South Deerfield, 2014.

At last : FANTASTIC PLOTTE…

…is here!

Incredible new book of old stuff by Julie Doucet.

All bilingual!

Available in Quebec bookstores and on this site

starting october 3rd.

Look at what Julie Doucet says on her tumblr : here. 

Images from a submarine celebration

This past may 12th, at the chic Sala Rossa in Montreal, there was an amazing evening of music and poetry for the benefit of the slow bilingual cultural paper  Le Bathyscaphe. For those who could not attend, and for those who just love moments from the past, we have put online on Vimeo some extracts from the great performances of that evening. You'll find right here a list of the artists that took part in the evening : you only have to click on the name of any of them to play a scientifically preserved extract of the performance he gave on that night. 

Sadly these links don't work anymore as of sunday september 29th 2013.
Some of the artists have posted their video on youtube (among them Gabriel Levine and Myriam Gendron).

Byron Coley reads from his poems. Live french translation from Marie Frankland 

and guitar by Bill Nace.

Charles Plymell reads from his poems.

Pam Plymell reads a french translation.

Charles Plymell reads from his poems 

with Mauro Pezzente on bass.

Myriam Gendron sings the songs she created

from Dorothy Parker's poems

with Laurence Gendron on cello and backing vocals.

Gabe Levine sings his songs 

backed by Keiko Devaux on piano.

World premiere of  Le Clou de la Gang

featuring Simon Drouin, Julie and Zachary Delorme,

Danya Ortman and Jasmin Cloutier. 

Greg Webber and his band Kill Chicago.

Urbain Desbois and his guest drummer.

Thanks to all the artisst for their presence

and to Julie Bourbonnais and Éric Néron for the videos.

JOHN TCHICAI (1936-2012)

«Lilanto del indio»
from  Cadentia Nova Danica recorded in 1968

Shawn Cotton & Le Bathyscaphe 8

Bulk cargo

Long long february leap.

* Kiva Stimac, the great lady behind Popolo Press in Montreal (and the spirit behind the Sala Rossa and Casa del Popolo along with her partner Mauro) did an interview with L'Oie de Cravan that you can read right here if you don't mind scary pictures.

* L'Oie de Cravan travels : we'll be in Paris from mars 16 to 19th, taking part in the Paris book fare (Salon du livre de Paris), stand U51. Come see us !

We'll also be in Los Angeles on mars 24th to take part in Shelf life 2 : A big day for Small Press with our friend Byron Coley. We'll have a fine sample of our books, normally hard to find in this part of the Americas. Do come to see us!

* Some of you might know Le Bathyscaphe, the fine bilingual cultural paper with an international crew that we are so proud of being associated with. Well, here comes Bathysphere, a new, lighter, photocopied free zine offspring of the former, made to measure to flow with the movement of times. The first issue is out and its main focus is on the Occupy movement. You can get it from the crew of Le Bathyscaphe or read it online in pdf format right here. Not much english in this issue though, but you can read here in english the full interview Hermine Ortega did with Mark Read, the guy behind the Bat Signal at Occupy Wall Street (just skip the french intro!).

And these were the news for this long long freezing leap month.

French compositeur Byron Coley

C'est la guerre in the Composer's section at the Centre George Pompidou bookstore

(picture by Thurston Moore)

We've put out Byron Coley's C'est la guerre : early writings 1978-1983 in may last year. A lot of talk about it on the web in the US but very little press. Europe seems strangely more into inking the good news : first there was a great article in the Wire , there was also a nice word on it in Mojo. Now, it is in France (where the bilingual book is widely available only since november ) that the press is picking up. Check out Guy Mercier's great article in Paris' free cultural rag Balise (november 2011). And, just this week, came out a beautiful little note in the new issue of France's foremost literary magazine Le Matricule des Anges ( january 2012). Blogs there are also buzzing over it but this, anyone can find.

Under the applause : Byron Coley

(picture by Benoît Chaput)

Boulevard des Invalides

I saw it this morning:

twenty-five years, my love,
twenty-five years have gone by.

You don’t take them out anymore
your painted wood scarecrow
your clear day companion
You don’t take out your horses
your madmen and whales
you don’t tidy your seagulls
in the seagull drawer
you don’t have animals anymore
or much hope
you don’t light up the fire
more than once or twice a summer
you don’t sleep in the snow
you don’t hunt the cherries
with your great gay airs
and it’s rare, it’s quite rare
for you to remember me
our fears, laughter
and six p.m. trains
You don’t rumple the forests
of laundry
you don’t pin lace
onto the face of the sky anymore
you don’t open these wings
or very little
and nothing ever takes off
much farther than the end
of last winter
when we followed the stream
embroidered with a balustrade that had
white or
green highlights
which lasted until night
You don’t last until night

Today
more easily than in the past
when I used to hold the key to it
I wander in your hollow
I say more easily
because it’s been empty of you since
it’s been empty of me
I don’t even see that
spear planted in the morning anymore
Boulevard des Invalides
I can’t picture your voice
Yet, I know—
the down of your body
still burns inside the earth
the wind along your shoulders
still makes that husky chant
but you no longer have shoulders
you don’t even have wings
and the lioness tosses
in her bed of dead wood
and every Sunday writes
to Sundays that were
and the envelopes are empty inside
like those shelves under the sea
with their empty boats
and empty fishes
you don’t bring in your wolves
you don’t take off your gloves
to stroke the rain
you don’t have
naked fingers left under those rings
that naked mouth amid the haze
and those knees, those pigeons
those clouds above your breasts
you don’t come back in at night
with your big cold beasts
and that smell of the city
afar the black alleys
and I don’t know your neck anymore
or your nape that moved slowly
in the heavy air for me alone
Even the coal bucket
the little nuggets of water
you won’t bring them in
your purple house anymore
with your fifteen fur coats on
Now even your tongue is dead
though I still speak it

Pierre Peuchmaurd, Parfaits Dommages et autres achèvements.

Translated by E.C. Belli

Pierre Peuchmaurd

(picture by Antoine Peuchmaurd)

Year end

THE POEM

A poetry of the meaning of words

And a bond with the universe

I think there is no light in the world

but the world

And I think there is light

George Oppen

Montreal

Have your ever heard of Patrice Desbiens and Robin Aubert ?

You should.

Patrice Desbiens is a franco-ontarian poet, the bastard son of Richard Brautigan and Paul Eluard, considered by many to be the finest poet alive in Quebec today.

Robin Aubert is an amazing actor and director whose 2010 shocking and beautiful film Crying out (À l'origine d'un cri) won him exceptional critical acclaim. He also writes poetry. Poems of the north — of lost and anger, of love and strenght, torned between city and woods.

We are launching their books

POUR DE VRAI by Patrice Desbiens

&

ENTRE LA VILLE ET L'ÉCORCE by Robin Aubert

Thursday SEPTEMBER 29TH 2011

at the bookstore temporary turned waterhole

LE PORT DE TÊTE

262 Mont-Royal east, in Montreal town.

Come and celebrate with us!

Robin and Patrice will read and there will be some nice wines and a bar-b-cue.