Name: Chahut d’ruelle
NXNE Show: The Sister – Saturday, June 15 @ 10 PM
Hometown: Montréal
Music genre: folk-trash-balkano-tropical
Year it all began: 2010
A quick introduction: We were all stranded in Montreal, one of us just had gotten back from Berlin, one from Lisbon, and another from Vancouver. At this point in time, the Montreal soil seemed to all of us a common haven. Phil Ouellet had composed, on the road, a couple of songs to fill his busking hat: a renegade lament, a bankrupt blues, a wine-thirsty ballad, a fed-up rock… Slightly homesick and overwhelmed with wanderlust, we gathered, and that’s when the ruckus started to resonate in the alleyway. The first audience was a neighbourhood upset by the late-night cadence. Each with our grief, still tipsy from wandering, we bit into the music… a hybrid of pirate blues, gypsy melodies, a hint of bal-musette… the whole tainted by a Quebec flavour…
What attracted you to music? The desire to create in the most appropriate medium for us, having a common project within a group of friend, having fun, ignite the next step in human evolution.
What are your sources of inspiration? The weather in Montréal, the east-European cure for depression, awesome freaks like Frank Zappa or William Burroughs, psychedelic drugs in the forest.
What would your dream gig be? Playing naked in front of the Queen
What are your thoughts about the NXNE platform? A good place to be for a musician to share and discover musical thoughts, a good platform for a new visibility.
Interesting points others don’t know about you? Our bass player is an androgynous fan of Mötley Crüe
