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Bulletin Culturel March 2009 FOCUS France at the Canadian Music Week Semaine de la Francophonie: La francophonie dans tous ses éclats! MORIARTY At the Canadian Music Week Editorial Whether we like it or not, our lives grow on strolls, journeys, migrations and exoduses. With the almighty destructive power of History, T.S. Eliot’s stanzas express those wanderings : « To Carthage then I came Burning burning burning burning Content O Lord Thou pluckest me out O Lord Thou pluckest burning ( in « The Waste Land » ) Festival - PAGE 3 At Canadian Music Week this month, music is a must to enjoy with 7 bands presenting artists from France. For most of them, whatever Music - PAGE 7 their styles : « Jazz Pop » « Fusion Jazz » « Trip-Hop » « Antifolk », Theatre - PAGE 8 the C.M.W. Festival represents the point of departure of a long Norhten American tour. The members of Angil and the Hiddentracks Cinema - PAGE 10 will go to New-York City, while Beast, Binary Audio Misfits, Eol trio et Moriarty will head to Austin (Texas) to set fire to SXSW’09 festival. Conferences - PAGE 10 Herman Dune will fly to Los Angeles. H-Burns, who was on tour last Exhibitions - PAGE 15 year in Canada and in the U.S., comes back in March, exclusively for the pleasure of the Torontonians. DVD - PAGE 17 You may decide to go for Christian Lebrat experimental cinema, or Hadjithomas/Joreige images at Images Festival – sorry no Catherine Television - PAGE 18 Deneuve around -, and also dino-infested cities created by Chinese- born, Paris-based Zenchen Liu. In 2009, join the March celebrations of Francophonie. Joël SAVARY, Cultural Attaché Cultural Calendar - March 2009 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 Cinema Vampyr Theatre Since Mar. 8 A north facing house 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Television Musique Cinema Theatre Theatre Television Cartouche Les Lola Au mo - Au mo - Un con - Jeunes ment de ment de damné à Solistes sa dis - sa dis - mort s’est parition parition échappé 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Television Exhibition Conference CMW CMW Le cavalier Regard C. Lebrat See on See on Television d’Une pages pages L’année Cinema dernière à Marienbad 3 4 Lola 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Conference Television Cinema Exhibition Television Cinema Pierre Train de Jeanne Had - Ascenseur Jeanne Guéry jithomas vie Dielman and Joreige pour Dielman - l’échafaud An Assyr ian Semaine de la Semaine de la Semaine de la Semaine de la Semaine de la world francophonie francophonie francophonie francophonie francophonie 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Conference Conference Exhibition Television Anne Lacaton The Dionne Zhenchen Le céré - Quituplets monie Music Liu Cinema Cinema Uppercut Until company Lola Princess of Ap. 19 the Sun Semaine de la Semaine de la Semaine de la Semaine de la Cinéfranco Cinéfranco Cinéfranco francophonie francophonie francophonie francophonie 30 31 Cinéfranco Cinéfranco 2 FFeessttiivvaallss The Canadian Music Week welcomes best French music bands! eol trio March 13 Among the Jazz world, “eol trio” most experts and seduces the is already known as a magic uninitiated. trio, with new and fertile eol trio sounds. Recognized during the “Talents Jazz à Viennes” in Friday, March 13 2004, finalist of the Tremplin Sunside contest, and Tremplin At 9:00PM jazz Ile de France in 2006, “Coup de Coeur Jazz à Nice” in At Trane Studio 2008, the three musician of eol 964 Bathurst Street trio perform on the bests French 416 913 8197 stages. They will surprise the Angil and the Hiddentracks March 13 Three years has gone since the notes and the words; walking in the “Master-stroke, «Oulipo Saliva » releasing of Angil’s latest album: footsteps of George Perec, when he confirms the undeniable gift of “Teaser for: matter” (many times wrote his famous “La disparition” this outstanding musician, and presented as The Album of the year (an entire book wrote without the can be seen at first sight as one 2004), and “Oulipo saliva”. For letter “E”), and paying homage to of the most important album of years, Mickaël Motte; the brain be - the French literature collective: the year 2007.” hind Angil, has multiplied his proj - l’OULIPO (for « Ouvrage de Littéra - ects. He has performed in many ture Potentielle », “Workshop of Po - Martin Caznave, Les Inrockuptibles concerts all over France (being the tential Literature”), founded on the opening concert of, among others: idea of create works using con - Why ?, Bright Eyes, The Kills, or strained writing techniques. Brigitte Fontaine), accompanied by his musician collective: The Hid - Angil and dentracks. the Hiddentracks The album “Oulipo Saliva” was born thanks to a remark, made by The Friday, March 13 Hiddentracks’ saxophonist, saying At 10:00 PM how hard it was to play the key of E on an alto saxophone. This has in - spired Angil so much that he de - At the Central cided to compose an album 603 Markham Street centered on this musical and lyrical 416 913 4586 restriction: no Es - in both the 3 H-Burns March 13 French folk. Without warning, original influences through poet - but with an all natural elegancy, ical ellipsis and a sincere point. his second album, entitled “How Strange Is It To Be Anything At All”, reflects an oratory style rarely seen in France… H-Burns The songs, composed and recorded in French land: Mar - Friday, March 13 seille, Romans and Valence, At 10:00 PM have certainly been influenced At Clinton's by great American masters, 693 Bloor St. West from Townes Van Zandt to Will Toronto Oldham, through Sun Kill Moon 416 535 9541 or Great Lake Swimmers. H- In few songs, H-Burns fly over Burns manage to go beyond the Moriarty March 14 Formed in Paris as the century out lines that ease into the re - cabaret set somewhere around turned, Moriarty saw five young hearsal room and then form into Dallas in the 1930's, the Russ - musicians adopt each other and characters, adventures and nos - ian Taïga and Paris. An infec - write songs like novels or short talgia. tious melody is carried by the movies. Their identities split be - The music of Moriarty floats be - luminous Rosemary, supported tween America and Europe; the tween folk, country, blues and by unsettling lyrics and oozing members of Moriarty are guided train-like beats. Shoulder dance by the surreal, believing in an and shivers down the spine. animist fashion that some ob - jects have a soul: a squeaking floorboard, a hotel bell, the Moriarty rhythm produced when batte- ring a well-traveled suitcase, a Saturday, March 14 taxicab dispatch microphone, a At 9:00 Pm whisk and other chance findings crawl into their songs. But this is At Reverb also music for the joy of sponta - 651 Queen St. West neous story-telling, of spilling 416 504 0744 Binary Audio Misfists March 14 ‘Binary Audio Misfists’ is a hip genres and a mutual respect be - hop collective, the fruit of a mu - tween individuals, wide open to sical meeting on myspace be - learn from one another. Binary Audio Misfists tween two highly original genres from different worlds: the Saturday, March 14 French rock group ‘Expérience’ At 8:00 PM (Toulouse) and the Texan hip hop crew ‘The Word Association’ At CIRCA (San Marcos). With its creation, Ballroom they have managed to strike up 126 John Street a link between two cultures, two continents, and two musical Toronto concepts. A rich and fruitful dia - 416-979-0044 logue exists between the two 4 Herman Dune March 14 Herman Dune is a family Their last album entitled Next band which has roots in Swe - Year in Zion, is an excellent mix den, France and New York. The of vintage and moderns sounds. brothers David-Ivar (‘Ya Ya’) - guitar, bass & vocals - and The album brims with poetry, André - guitar, sax & vocals -, melody and groove and you can founding members have played really feel the fun they had rock together since early chid - making it. hood occasionally with their younger sister Lisa, backing vo - The succes of their last concert cals. André left the band in 2006 in Toronto, last October, encour - after the rehearsal of their aged them to come back, during album Giant and Herman Dune Top’ (Track And Field). the Canadian Music Week. is now only David-Ivar, Neman (Drums and percussion) and the They have played all over the former drummer Omé who is world, to ever-expanding back at the guitar. crowds. UK press coverage has always been consistently excel - Herman Dune They now live in Berlin, New lent and they have had a lot of Saturday, March 14 York & Paris and gather to tour radio support here mostly from At 9:45 PM and record as often as possible. John Peel (12 Sessions in all). Their single, 'I Wish That I Could At Lee’s Palace Herman Dune have released See You Soon' was on Rolling 529 Bloor St. West several albums since their Stone's list of the 100 Best 416 532 1598 inception in 1997, among them Songs of 2007. the widely acclaimed ‘Not On Beast March 14 “Beast” is an experimental union On their self-titled debut, they between the powerful and sensual combine soul, rap, electro, rock and voice of Beatrice Bonifassi and the jazz, uncovering their own distinct beats of composer and drummer sound which has captured fans, Jean-Phi Goncalvesi. After having while creating quite the buzz with wonderfully performed on the 2004 their gripping live shows. Oscar Winner Sound Track – The Triplettes de Belleville – Betty has joined since then her voice and her songwriting skills to Dj Champion to create, once again, a major impact on the local, national and interna - Beast tional music industry.