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Artist
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Philémon
- Real name: Philémon Girouard
- Member of: Balai Mécanique, ’Gypt Gore, Komsomolsk, Lubriphikatttor, Napalm Jazz, L’Orchestre de granulation
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Philémon
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Friday, November 19, 2010
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Cookbook attributed to Guillaume Tirel, dit Taillevent, enfant de cuisine under Jeanne d’Évreux, queux of King Philippe de Valois and of Duke of Normandie, first queux and sergent d’armes of…
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
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Seven years ago, Asyncdrone (David Turgeon et Kaia Wong, to whom was added Napalm Jazz saxophonist Philémon) went in studio to record the follow-up to insurpassable lo-fi slop fest We…
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
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In addition to the tracks from the Free transgénique album and several live recordings, the Napalm Jazz collective has also produced a number of “home recordings” that were never released…
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Friday, December 22, 2006
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For Thistles 04, the last and unfinished installement in the series, David Turgeon is joined by Philémon. Here, we can hear the seeds of their future musical preoccupations as well…
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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L’orchestre de granulation was a longtime dream project of A_dontigny. After many failed attempts due to lack of funding or of an appropriate venue, L’orchestre de granulation finally took the…
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
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Individual copy of the album by Balai Mécanique, from the Montréal Free 4CD boxset.
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
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Individual copy of the album by ’Gypt Gore, from the Montréal Free 4CD boxset.
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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Live at the Espace Ecube, May 2003. “Un microphone dans une tempete de noize” was an evening of music curated by Esther B - in addition to Napalm Jazz, themoonstealingproject…
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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Sam Shalabi brought an unsuspected mood to the night, using mostly electronics. Philémon’s use of an amplified metal box, added to A_dontigny’s distorted CD skipping and Érick Dorion’s signature audiomulch…
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
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The first encounter of radical turntablist Martin Tétreault with the Napalm Jazz posse turned into an alcoholic mayhem of scratches, digital noise, drunken rap and obvious borrowings from Prince, Black…
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Friday, October 19, 2001
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Philémon (Napalm Jazz, ’Gypt Gore, etc.) presents 3 rumbling, haunting illustrations of George Orwell’s classic utopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four. One track for each of Oceania’s ideological slogans. What the removal of…
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Wednesday, September 6, 2000
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Done as a “potlatch” type exchange with a friend, Alexandre Warren, these four harsh tracks from Philémon (Napalm Jazz) make for a demanding listening. Heavy, cathartic white noise & assorted…
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Sunday, December 20, 1998
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Full-length release from the Napalm Jazz collective, compiling 16 of their greatest radio experiments from 1997-98. No-holds-barred improv, scathing mixing & law-defying styles is what you may find on this…
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Appearances
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Biography
A founding member of the Napalm Jazz trio, Philémon is a prolific member of the free music scene in Montréal. First as a musician, but also as an event organiser, such as a concert for peace featuring 12 improvisers such as Jean Derome, John Heward and Alexandre St-Onge; but also the November 2001 “Rumble” with sixteen musicians organised in four quartets representings the most diversified aspects of new music. A dynamic saxophonist, he works regularly with guitarist Sam Shalabi, either as a duo in the extreme project ’Gypt Gore, and in a sextet with Balai Mécanique. Two bands which give the best role to his fierce playing.
One of the first members of the No Type collective, he contributes to the 1998 Napalm Jazz album Free Transgénique (NT 9001). In December 1999, he is part of the Jazz Busters Excavation Sonore, overseen by the Avatar audio art collective, who he works with again in March 2000 with a composition for Le Chant des Voix. In September 2000, a collaboration with Alexandre Warren, Potlatch W (NT 030), appears on No Type. Continuing this autio montage work, he creates De la viande bio, a composition for the compilation The Freest of Radicals (IMNT 0201, 2001). With properly electronic music, apart from his participation to the Sine Fiction web series, for which he adapted the classic Nineteen Eighty Four (NT 058, 2001), he has also been working on a duo with French sound artist Julie Rousse, under the name Komsomolsk, during the Rien à voir (11) electroacoustic event, in April 2002.
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