ENSEMBLE SUPERMUSIQUE

Ensemble SuperMusique biography
Ensemble SuperMusique is an actuelle musique band from Québec that was founded in 1998. Even if some musicians have stayed in the band from its formation, it has a line-up that changes often. Every musician that has worked with the Ensemble SuperMusique is excellent.

Consisting of Joane Hétu, Danielle Palardy Roger and Diane Labrosse (all members of Les Poules and long-time collaborators), Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Martin Tétreault, Ensemble SuperMusique has played compositions of Nicolas Caiola, Allison Cameron, Lori Freedman, Jean Derome Joane Hétu, Danielle Palardy Roger, Lee Pui Ming, Martin Tétreault, Marie Pelletier and Mary Travers on their two studio albums.

In live performances, they have played compositions of Éric Normand, Esther B., Gordon Allen, Guido Del Fabbro (Rouge Ciel) and Marielle Groven, notably. Also, they are always directed by one of the members of the band when they play, instead of being directed by the usual "conductor".

Ensemble SuperMusique also performs a kind of music that is called "improvisation structurée", or structured improvisation.

They have released two albums. Their first, Canevas +, came out in 2004 and featured only Joane Hétu, Danielle Roger and Diane Labrosse. Their second album, named Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane, was released in 2008 by the sextet made of Hétu, Roger, Labrosse, Tétreault, Tanguay and Derome.

This is a band that should appeal to lovers of the avant-garde scene, as it features some of the more important musicians of that movement.



Biography written by Gabriel Rivest (Tsevir Leirbag)