A NEW SONG FOR SPRINGTIME, LOTS OF SHOWS - Here's a new silly Montag song for Springtime on Vancouver's own Peppermill Records spring compilation. You're lucky the lyrics are in French because they're pretty silly - it's basically about global warming vs. the season of love or something like that. The deal is that the artists invited to participate have to write a song in less than a week... pretty fun. You can check their calendar to see who's tracks will be posted next!
A lot of Montag shows will be confirmed soon - mainly in Canada. Stay tuned.
A REMIX FOR STARS - Montag did a remix for Stars a while ago and it's finally going to be available on the Stars remix compilation called "Do You Trust Your Friends?" - which will be released on Arts and Crafts on May 22nd. Here is the link to the news on Pitchfork...
FIRST SHOW IN A LONG TIME - Montag will be opening for the Junior Boys @ Richards on Richards (Vancouver) on April 22nd. The record won't be out yet but there'll be a self released EP available there... More info soon.
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ALBUM NEWS - Montag's new record is now finished. Sixtoo did
the mastering in Montreal and we're pretty happy with the final result.
Here is the final track listing and the names of all the collaborators:
1.
I Have Sound (with M83)
2. Best Boy Electric
3. Mechanical Kids
4. Alice (with Ghislain
Poirier)
5. 322 Water (with Ida
Nilsen)
6. Softness, I forgot Your Name (with Final
Fantasy)
7. Safe in Sound (with Amy
Millan)
8. Hi-5 au DJ
9. Hands Off, Creature! (with Leah
Abramson)
10. > (Plus Grand Que) (with Victoria
Legrand)
11. No One Else (with Au
Revoir Simone)
12. Going Places***
***Going Places contains samples recorded by people from 15 different countries. Some of them will be posted here soon as some of them have pretty amazing stories.
SOUND COMMISSION - Montag was commissioned by French CBC to write a 5 minute track inspired by a piece written by Québécois poet Kim Doré. You can hear the track on Bande à Part's website.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ART PROJECT - Montag will be part of a collective art exhibition called The Hearing Eye. It's an initiative of Sébastien Cliche of the Clark Art Gallery in Montréal. It involves 7 visual artists and 7 musicians. The idea is that every visual artist is matched with a musician. They later have to create a piece that represents music parts that the musician will interpret to eventually create a music compostion. Visit the project's website for more information. The opening will take place on March 1st.