03/28/2023
Un review de la compilation C'est pas vendable! volume 2 dans le VITAL WEEKLY:
C'EST PAS VENDABLE! VOLUME 2 (cassette by Pas Vendable Records)
Today I started my spring cleaning (a bit early), and as such, I needed a soundtrack.. Or should that be reversed? I was playing this lengthy compilation (admittedly from the free version on Bandcamp). In the meantime, I was cleaning up some stuff, rummaging through paperwork and such; the music here was a pleasant, wild, chaotic, chaotic and energetic bunch to help me in this tiresome work. As far as I understand, the cassette is a very limited (twenty copies) release to have some physical support of the Bandcamp version, which seems longer. I assume that many, if not all, of these musicians, are from Canada or even restricted to Montreal. It is a festival of exclusively new names, some of which sound very funny. Here we go; Alan Versafecu, Laure Phelin (Henriette Va**um), Black Ka, Hank Sun'Gosse, Francis Arsenault, Samuel Roy-Bois, Jean-Luc Bonspiel, Bruit Philtré, Copromelomanie, The with Charles Band, P/DO P/DRO, Miss U Angelo, L'Aurore et ses martyrs, Le Too Bored To Care Institute, Monsieur Larose, Jorgette Rose, the Beatle(S), (The Artist formerly known as) Cou Coupé, Polysemique, Les Anglais débarquent (André Eric Létourneau, Bertrand Boisvert),
Fyanschiste Yashenss, Francis Arsenault, Benoit Fauteux, Francis-Lachance Quenneville, La Ligue du Vieux Poêle (J***y Luke Bonspiel, Bruno Tanguay, Francisse Latchansse, Valérie Girard, Marc Galipeau), Magnanime, Tony Mess, Mr. Deraspe, Bruit Philtré, Prinkipissa, Frank Zapoï, Miss U Angelo, and Rainbow Trash. Like the music is a free download, the musical content is also very free. Many times with vocals, free guitar strumming, samplemania and electronics running galore. It's sound poetry meeting free folk, meeting noise, alt-rock, electro pop, post-rock, and much more. At times reminding me of an experimental cassette from the 80s, in which we find a similar form of freedom and in which we would easily be lost (hold on, who was this again). The latter is also helped because many of these tracks are between two and three minutes long. Some truly great weirdness here, such as by Jorgette Rose and Fyanschiste Yashenss; not really Vital Weekly sort of weirdness but a nice
subversion
of the ordinary. (FdW)
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