Today Antoine Corriveau unveils a third single titled Imprudences, off his upcoming album Oiseau de Nuit, available everywhere this Friday via Secret City Records. “The music came to be while I was writing instrumentals for Elisabeth Cardin’s podcast Manger le territoire,” says Antoine. “I really liked this chord progression and I felt the desire to turn it into a song. It was the first time that I worked with existing music, coming up with a melody before writing any lyrics. This led me to more melodic areas than I’m used to, and it made me want to do a full-on pop song. As much pop as I can get, at least.” Antoine Corriveau will mark the release of his new album with an exclusive performance on April 25 in Montreal at Aux 33 Tours — a special occasion where everyone is invited to celebrate and experience the new songs from his album live.
The lead single Suzo premiered on Indiemusic and was played on France Inter during the show “Côté Club.” Selected as the song of the week upon its release by SOCAN Magazine, it was described by Rolling Stone Québec as striking and unclassifiable, while Le Canal Auditif included it on its list of remarkable songs released in February: Antoine Corriveau has never displayed an attitude as close to Jean Leloup’s as on Suzo. With that kind of attitude, he dives into a fraught, quasi-Poe tale. It’s as tasty as pasta eaten in Palermo. The second single, Interruption, is in heavy rotation “Sous haute surveillance” on the SiriusXM Attitude Franco channel. The new album was unveiled during a full-length listening session at FIFA last month, following the screening of the short film Pastorale directed by Francis Leclercaround the track with the same title on Oiseau de Nuit.
The primary desire behind the creation of Oiseau de Nuit was to borrow from the codes of hip-hop production, without falling into the trap of a stylistic exercise. Interested in further exploring the sound collage technique he toyed with on his previous album, PISSENLIT, Corriveau acquired a vast vinyl record collection, with the aim of making a sampling album. Alas, he quickly felt cramped in this format and decided to create custom samples, by inviting many musicians to jam in his studio: Stéphane Bergeron (drums and co-production), Marc-André Landry (bass), Simon Angell (guitar, saxophone), Sheenah Ko, François Lafontaine (synths), Cherry Lena, VioleTT Pi, Rose Perron (vocals), Taurey Butler (piano), Éveline Grégoire-Rousseau (harp), Pietro Amato (French horn), Émilie Fortin (trumpet), Kalun Leung (trombone), Laurie Torres (piano), Mat Vezio (drums), and Ariel Comtois (saxophone).
These free-flowing exploratory sessions led to the production of nearly half the album. For the rest, Antoine Corriveau returned to his first love, alone at the piano or with his guitar, writing a series of songs that were arranged in great part thanks to the taped jams. The records that stayed with him while creating his own were those of Beastie Boys, Kendrick Lamar, Makaya McCraven, Armand Hammer, Alice Coltrane, Cymande, Yusef Lateef, Lolita Cuevas, Georgia Ann Muldrow, and Brahja.