What’s the expression, again? Ah, yes … Rainy wedding, happy wedding. Despite the rain that poured down on the Francos de Montréal site at the end of Sunday afternoon, Révélations Radio-Canada 2022-2023 was all smiles because of the twinning with the public broadcaster.
The youth, talent, and vast musical universe are once again in the spotlight this year within this cuvée whose identity was announced live on radio during Monique Giroux’s program (Free songs) and face to face, as we say today, in the middle of the Francos site, on the quiet Esplanade.
Lysandre, Lova, Ariane Racicot, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, Noé Lira and Kanen, the first indigenous revelation since Révélations Radio-Canada was founded 15 years ago, form the good team annual qualification rare of the facilitator.
Decompartmentalized universes
Despite their favorite music genres (pop, jazz, hip hop, world music, lyrical art, folk) defining the contours of their musical spectrum, no one – first and foremost, the artists themselves – the really wants to be pigeonholed. in a particular style. Quebec is gradually deconfining after the pandemic, Révélations Radio-Canada, they are decompartmentalizing, to music.
Lysandre (Ménard), for example, grew up in a world of classical music, with an academic background (piano). However, now with singing and pop he has expanded his musical universe. We see the complementarity between his two spheres of activity by measuring his talent with ivory in a song form.
This nomination is huge, from a creative standpoint, he explains. It provides air, breath to continue creating. I thought of performing with Francos one day, but I already have an English band …
Let’s say life makes things good. I think I gradually switched to singing because I wanted to create, but I still do classical music.he added.
Ariadne and Wynton
Ariane Racicot, for her part, also plays ivory, but in a jazz context. Bicycle Ridingan instrumental dynamic with a hypnotic recurring motif released on his latest album, Floating, the audience was amazed. How does he see this appointment?
Too much arrogance and too much excitement , says one who, logically, would rather have thought to perform on a stage at the Montreal International Jazz Festival than Francos. Eventually, he will make a double punch.
In a few weeks, I will be opening for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Orchestra, glad one liked the creation process along with his fellow revelations. The workmanship in the studio is very good. We mixed pop, jazz, hip hop.
Marie-Pierre’s proofreading
This is pretty much what the four revelations on the site – Noé Lira and Kanen because of promises before their appointment – did in a replay of the song The wind calls me by my nameby Marie-Pierre Arthur, she herself was a former winner.
Framed on Ariane Racicot’s piano, the song was essentially a duet with Lysandre and Rose Taggar-Tremblay before Lova arrived to complete the musical offering with a hip-hop segment.
This is commendable (this nomination)believes Lova -William Courtemanche -, a sociable and solid man.
It’s great because I’m at the beginning of my career, and moreover, it’s been relatively recent that hip-hop has been gaining visibility in the media. I find it symbolic.
Already contracted overseas for Rose Naggar-Tremblay
All 2022-2023 Radio-Canada Révélations have already released one or more records or microalbums. That said, inspiration is different for everyone.
What did it do ten years ago that I would spend my entire night in a garage raping ?, Lova wondered. I wonder what state of mind I was in … I think it was really natural for me to do that. There is really no underlying thinking. For me, it’s really the love of music.
Sometimes almost the opposite, if we believe the words of Rose Naggar-Tremblay, which is as big as her voice that takes us to heaven. And there is also an original composition.
I find this nomination unusual because the classical environment is somewhat isolated from the general public. This will allow me to maintain direct links to the public at homeexplanation of one who already has overseas contracts on his agenda.
When I was little, I had a complex at my height, but when I came to the opera, I said to myself: “Ah! Here, you can be gigantic”.
That is what all revelation expects. The road will be long and full of pitfalls, but when you look in the rear view mirror, only in the last five or six years, you will see the names of Émile Bilodeau, Hubert Lenoir, Laurence Nerbonne, Gentiane MG, Les Louanges, Dominique Fils -Aimé, Clay and Friends, Ariane Roy and Calamine are among the revelations.
Too big? Everyone can hope for it.
Source: Radio-Canada
