Monogrenade
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After releasing their first EP in 2009, entitled La saveur des fruits on Paper Bag RecordsPaper Bag Records
Paper Bag Records is a Canadian independent record label and artist-management company, founded in 2002 and based in Toronto, Ontario.-History:...
, they came in 2nd place at the 2010 edition of Les Francouvertes
Francouvertes
Francouvertes is an annual Canadian music festival in Montreal, which spotlights emerging francophone musical artists from Quebec.At the end of each year's festival, three finalists are named, following which a jury presents an award of $10,000 to an artist chosen as the Best New Artist of the Year....
The band gained quite some attention when the video for their song Ce soir was featured on Mashable
Mashable
Mashable is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets...
's list of Top 10 Stop-Motion Videos on Youtube.
In 2011, they released their first full length album Tantale on Bonsound Records
Bonsound
Bonsound is a Montreal-based company that manages, books and promotes music. Bonsound also houses three records labels: Bonsound Records, Blow The Fuse Records and Proxenett.-History:...
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Band members
- Jean-Michel Pigeon (lyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
) - François Lessard (bass, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) - Marianne Houle (celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
) - Mathieu Collette (drums)
Discography
- Tantale, 2011 Bonsound RecordsBonsoundBonsound is a Montreal-based company that manages, books and promotes music. Bonsound also houses three records labels: Bonsound Records, Blow The Fuse Records and Proxenett.-History:...
- La saveur des fruits, 2009 Paper Bag RecordsPaper Bag RecordsPaper Bag Records is a Canadian independent record label and artist-management company, founded in 2002 and based in Toronto, Ontario.-History:...