Balcony Drone, by Mtl.Drone

Balcony Drone

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1.	ANTI-SCHOOL-YEAR - Acony 07:01	info
2.	Cymon Lamarre - W Y M 14:59
3.	Francesco Manenti - Construere et Demergere 14:19	info
4.	Hubert Gendron-Blais - Montreal Solidarity Drone 3 24:00	info
5.	Jérémi Doyon - Habiter la séparation 04:19
6.	John Triangles Stuart - Calagari Drone 14:54
7.	The Montreal Spectrum - Balcony Drone (Derelicts) 16:01
8.	La Sauvegarde - Réveille-toi si tu peux incrédule nébuleuse 12:14	info
9.	Hubert Gendron-Blais ft. an unknown neighbour - Montreal Solidarity Drone 4 17:46	info

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During the pandemic’s first week of confinement a call was sent to gather – in shelter – and produce drone to ring out from our balconies and windows. This seemingly strange request reverberated through the chill streets to reach distanced lovers of experimental sounds. The initial positive response led to the continuation of the Friday night drones until the end of the lockdown. This compilation is a sampling of those distant drones of solidarity from the deep winter (and cold spring) of confinement.

The inspiration behind the project came from the viral videos of Italians performing from their windows in courtyards during their lockdown. But Montreal is not Italy, our architecture is more spread out so we couldn’t perform in the same manner. This singularity – populating the empty streets with strange continuous tones – allowed the balcony drone performances to bring some strangeness in the experience of the confinement, calling for an attention to what vibrates beneath the habitual forms, inviting to a relation with the ineffable intensity that cannot be enclosed.

The hope was that the tones would echo out and form a sonic web of solidarity. The idea of solidarity is inherent in the drones singular focus of tones and reverberations – no individual stands out. Drone music allows to focus on the multiplicity of the collective musical expression: a delicate polytonality. This collective musical act also has roots in traditional music across the globe: it is in the sacred and the profane. In this instance it was a way for the sheltered to reach out to others within hearing distance an expression of affective resonance, a common way to share a vibrant intensity, which takes things and beings in a shared becoming.

This project can be considered as a homage to the strong experimental drive of Montreal, then sunk under a confinement pilled on top a five-month winter.

All the sales from the album will be donated to On ne laisse personne derrière/Nobody Left Behind, a campaign launched by Montreal community groups to support the persons in situation of homelessness that remain outside during these difficult times. To know more or support the campaign: www.gofundme.com/f/on-ne-laisse-personne-derriere?fbclid=IwAR3RbKQsXwTni1wffNqBQYW3Ohi1CiqpLknmR9D20hXU-LoT6R6bTVLqKDY

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released November 20, 2020

Curated by Hubert Gendron-Blais & John Triangles Stuart

Mastered by Jackie Gallant

Cover art and visual by John Triangles Stuart

Cuchabata records, 2020
CUCH-173

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Mtl.Drone Montreal, Québec

Mtl.Drone is a loose collective of artists and musicians exploring the social and political potential of drone music. The collective emerged out of the experience of the Balcony Drone events that took place during the first Covid lockdown . / Mtl.Drone est un collectif diffus explorant le potentiel social et politique de la musique drone. Le collectif a émergé de l'expérience des drones de balcon. ... more

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