Les filles américaines flirtent avec le disco et le glamour | Festival de jazz de Montréal
C’était comme revisiter les beaux jours du disco des années 70 en présence d’un groupe brillant au tristement célèbre Cinema de l’Amour. U.S Girls Meghan Remy’s diamond-cut melodies, avant-garde urges and concurrent collage / film work as backdrop set the stage for their first MTL appearance at Pop Montreal 2018, an eclectic Fall music Festival of emerging, celebrated artistic talents from around the world. American Megan Remy’s project U.S. Girls has defied all categorization since she launched in 2007, an angry feminist discourse laced through experimental pop.
Pichforkdécrit le mieux son dernier album : « Meg Remy est une savante en narration et son nouvel album glorieux et dansant est une collection vertueuse de chansons incisives, pleines de crachats et de fureur, un point culminant pour la musique pop politique. »
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1m1A1liNB/ The sound of U.S. Girls is so elaborate that it can be difficult to pin down. You get range of flashes from Marc Bolan, Frank Zappa 1970s psychedelia and Terry Riley’s ambient extravaganzas. However what’s new to Remy’s palette is a disco-driven pop, stoking a wild celebratory spirit barely restrained by traditional verses and choruses. Tracks Incidental Boogie, Rosebud, especially M.A.H., the album’s spiritual and intellectual centerpiece, resonate the spirit of Madonna, or ABBA with bayonets concealed under those flowing white robes. She has talked about pop as a form of bait, to draw listeners in to her more complex ideas.
On her latest album, U.S. Girls In a Poem Unlimited, recorded with Toronto jazz/funk musicians and composing with the funky interstellar-jazz supergroup The Cosmic Range. ”I wanted to work with the pop form sonically so that I could hide the weird shit and the dark messages within it, almost hoping that they would go unnoticed,” Remy said, in a profile that dubbed her “the entire history of female pop music in one woman.” Where to catch them?
Loto-Québec Scene – Verdun (corner Wellington and Galt St.) – Wednesday July 3 @ 9 pm – FREE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=k9PLXHDEUFE For more Montreal summer gems, every Wednesday and Saturday throughout the next couple of months, watch for the fireworks competition.
