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.

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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.