Antoine Corriveau
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At the beginning of Oiseau de Nuit lay a multitude of imagined lives. Drawing from them and from every chapter of their existence Antoine Corriveau set them on a collision course, multiplying and merging them until they became one. How do you write what grows inside you but remains unspoken? At the heart of this knot stand invisible forms of violence that seep into the flesh, sometimes leading to dissociation, to the urge to become someone else in order to escape the imprint of darkness. The detours are many: emotionless sexuality, camouflage, flight, small deaths, resurrection. Over the course of creation, memory and fantasy intertwined, blurring the line between parallel lives and recollection.
The initial desire behind Oiseau de Nuit was to borrow from the codes of hip-hop without falling into a mere stylistic exercise. After exploring collage on PISSENLIT, Corriveau first considered building a sample-based record from vinyl, before choosing instead to create his own samples by inviting a host of musicians to improvise in the studio. The energy of these sessions pushed the songs beyond their limits, where melodies brushing up against R&B meet long, breathless streams of lyrics.
These freeform explorations led to nearly half of the album. For the remainder, he returned to his first loves alone at the piano or guitar composing pieces later enriched by the recorded improvisations. Among the works that inhabited him during the creative process were those of Beastie Boys, Kendrick Lamar, Makaya McCraven, Armand Hammer, Alice Coltrane, Cymande, Yusef Lateef, Lolita Cuevas, Georgia Ann Muldrow, and Brahja.
A plunge into childhood and adolescence followed by a rise toward the many facets that define him, this new album sees him exploring his public, intimate, and deeply personal identities and revealing what he had never before expressed. All in order to feel, to know himself alive.
Don’t miss Antoine Corriveau on Friday, June 26th, on the on the Old Prison stage Le trou du Diable, in collaboration with the Pop Museum, starting at 5:00 p.m.
