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Castor et compagnie

Joane Hétu: Castor et compagnie

Castor et compagnie

Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 037 | 1995

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Muzyka godna polecenia

by Ireneusz Socha in Studium #10 (Poland), December 21, 1997 |3233|


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in Hollow Ear (USA), June 1, 1997 |1067|

“acidic voice plays hard against all of this, and she takes the most obvious themes and makes them her own in surprising ways.”

On this side of the Atlantic, the experiments continue in a more agressive fashion in Montréal. Joane Hétu, wondeur-brasser and composer has released another jarring adventure, Castor et Compagnie. This is her first “solo” recording, although she is joined by AM regulars Diane Labrosse (keys and accordion), Jean Derome (brass, woodwinds, percussion and effects), Pierre Tanguay (percussion) and some bass tracks from Luc Bonin. The beauty of all the music Hétu makes is its refusal to be described by genre or comparison: jazz, new classical, punk-funk, experimental noise; Stockhausen, Glass, Beefheart and Zappa all seem vaguely appropriate until you really listen. Castor et Compagnie adds another element, one of erotic romance. The texts that inspire these pieces come from Hindi love recipes, Arabic sex-play games and old ribald folk songs, and the music created around them is a rich mix of lush and lustful, one moment a Brazilian cliché, the next a raw revel or a scream. Her edgy, acidic voice plays hard against all of this, and she takes the most obvious themes and makes them her own in surprising ways.


other texts in

  • Minimal #12 (Portugal),
  • Zona Tóxica #1 (Mexico),
  • New World (USA),
  • Cadence #19:7 (USA), July 1, 1993
  • Voir (Québec), September 14, 1995
    “… une poésie musicale où se côtoient allègrement amour et érotisme, tendresse et tensions…”
  • Montreal Mirror (Québec), September 14, 1995
    “… If your notion of a good time takes on the heretofore unfathomed form of Nina Hagen scatting, Nina Simone squawking, or Nico rocking, have I got a girl for you!…”
  • Informator “Ars” 2 #17 (Poland), November 1, 1995
  • The Wire #142 (UK), December 10, 1995
    “Highly recommended.”
  • Revue & Corrigée #27 (France), March 1, 1996
    “… Si Joane Hétu se révèle être une chanteuse expressive, à la voix tendre, ou enjouée et gaie (selon le thème abordé), elle est aussi, et surtout, une compositrice et une musicienne/instrumentiste confirmée, qui fait de ses chansons de véritables chefs-d’oeuvre d’orchestration, faits d’arrangements subtils, malicieux, savoureux, auxquels ont contribué Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse et Pierre Tanguay…”
  • Octopus #4 (France), March 1, 1996
  • Margen #5 (Spain), March 1, 1996
  • ImproJazz (France), April 1, 1996
    “… Castor et compagnie est un cycle de chansons pour les amoureux de sens, du sens et des sons où se côtoient avec bonheur érotisme, bruitisme et mélodie.”
  • Musicworks (Canada), June 1, 1996
    “… Ce disque présente un très heureux mélange de textes et de musiques d’une grande qualité.”
  • Le Journal de Montréal (Québec), December 11, 1996
  • La Presse (Québec), December 12, 1996
  • Voir (Québec), December 12, 1996
  • Quarta-feira (Portugal), January 8, 1997
  • Norra Skåne (Sweden), April 12, 1997
  • Gränslöst #2 (Sweden), June 1, 1997
  • Border Zone Zero (Germany), June 1, 1998

Joane Hétu: Castor et compagnie: reviews

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