Gosh, it still exists, the Fanfare Pourpour! The unofficial orchestra of a Plateau-Mont-Royal of the time, where condo owners did not always complain when the party enlivened the small places of Montreal’s original entertainment district! Time passes, fashions change, but the Fanfare — today we would say an orchestra of 21 musicians — persists with its family, inclusive, eloquent music, which draws, as on its five previous albums, from jazz, klezmer, improvised music, and a little more in chamber music, as evidenced by the splendidBathyscaphe, composition by clarinetist Pierre Emmanuel Poizat. Almost the entire tribe contributes to the composition and orchestrations, the pillars Claude Vendette (The dreamer),Pierre Tanguay (Rock), the next generation of Nemo Venba (the circus Waltz to Lou — for Lou Babin, accordionist, the soul of the Fanfare). Receiving such an album, handcrafted and magnificently recorded, is reassuring: the spirit of celebration and sharing stubbornly drives the Fanfare.
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