Les Poules

Featuring

Les Poules: Joane Hétu, alto saxophone, voice; Diane Labrosse, digital sampler; Danielle Palardy Roger, drums, percussions

About this project

Les Poules is a trio made up of Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, and Danielle Palardy Roger. Three instrumentalist-composer-improvisers who have been working together since 1980. Their collaboration is legendary, their musical explorations always avant-garde. They mix up synthetic and acoustic sounds, the crackling and humming of samplers, the churning and chafing of percussion, vocalization, and the mouth play and hissing of saxophones. The effect of these mixtures and soundscapes is extraordinary: they weave a fabric of sound whose instrumental threads the listener will sometimes find difficult to distinguish.

After a prolongued absence, Les Poules returned to life in 2000, presenting a concert in the series View from the Front at the Western Front in Vancouver. Since then, they took part in many series and festivals: Festival des musique insolentes in Lorgues, Festival des musiques libres in Besançon (France); Festival LEM in Barcelona (Spain); Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival in St Petersbourg (Russie).

With their new repertoire, Phoenix, Les Poules present a nuanced ambient music, filled with images, audacity, authenticity, abstractions and melodies.