Mélisande (électrotrad)
Mélisande [électrotrad] is a Canadian folk music group, who perform a contemporary spin on traditional Québécois folk music.[1][2] The group's core members are Alexandre « Moulin » de Grosbois-Garand and Mélisande Gélinas-Fauteux, a married couple from Beloeil, Quebec,[3][4] who perform with a rotating collective of supporting musicians and dancers.
History
[edit]Mélisande Gélinas-Fauteux and Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand began playing together in 2007, performing Mélisande's original songs. The two married in 2012 and started working together on mixing traditional songs with electro-pop music. Mélisande's background as pop-rock singer combined with « Moulin » experience has a multi-instrumentalist with Genticorum and other traditional band gave an interesting result.[3]
The band released its first electrotrad album Les métamorphoses in 2014 on La Prûche Libre,[1] for which Mélisande won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Singer of the Year at the 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards.[5] Other players on the album were Robin Boulianne and Mark Busic (producer of the album).[6]
Their second album, Les millésimes, was released in 2017 on Borealis Records,[7] garnering the band two more Canadian Folk Music Award nominations, for Traditional Singer of the Year and Pushing the Boundaries, at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards.[8]
Discography
[edit]- Les métamorphoses (2014)
- Les millésimes (2017)
- Les Myriades (2019)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Melisande (electrotrad): Les Metamorphoses". PopMatters, May 6, 2015.
- ^ "Mélisande (électrotrad)". Le Devoir, Yves Bernard, 13 December 2014
- ^ a b "La Grande Rencontre: trad de famille". La Presse, May 8, 2014.
- ^ "À la recherche de chansons presque perdues", Frederic Khalkhal, Journal de Chambly, 26 September 2018
- ^ "National music award thrills Rheaume; Ottawa singer-songwriter honoured along with Shari Ulrich and Coig". Ottawa Citizen, December 1, 2015.
- ^ "MELISANDE - Les Metamorphoses La Prûche Libre PRU24401". Living Tradition, John O’Regan
- ^ "Mélisande (électrotrad) en mode plus dansant". Le Devoir, February 8, 2017.
- ^ "Canadian Folk Music Awards Reveal 2017 Nominees". Exclaim, September 21, 2017.