Poster for Simon Provencher performance featuring a green third quarter moon in the centre with washes of blurry yellow around it. Many Moons video concert series. July 31, 2021 (Third quarter). manymoonsconcerts.com.
Video premiere: July 31, 2021 ◐ Third quarter
Simon Provencher is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Quebec City who is now based in Hull. They are the lead guitarist in the post-punk/no wave/noise rock trio VICTIME. On the side, they also pursue an exploratory music practice, which includes solo and various collaborative projects. Their move to Hull made them bring home all of their instruments and recording equipment from their studio in Quebec to their new apartment in the Outaouais. The proximity of the equipment and the permeable time offered by being in a new city enabled them to quickly create a body of compositions on guitar, which they then wished to enrich with the contributions of esteemed musicians, Elyze Venne-Deshaies and Olivier Fairfield, to give the pieces a freehanded richness that is impossible to plan. The result of their collaboration is Mesures, a debut EP to be released in the spring of 2021.
Simon Provencher est un multi-instrumentiste et compositeur originaire de Québec qui est désormais basé à Hull. Il est notamment guitariste au sein de l’essentiel trio post-punk/no wave/ noise rock VICTIME. Il poursuit aussi en parallèle une pratique de musique exploratoire, en solo et à travers des projets collaboratifs. Son déménagement lui a fait rapporter à la maison tous ses instruments et son matériel d’enregistrement de son studio de Québec à son nouvel appartement en Outaouais. La proximité de l’équipement et le temps perméable que lui offre une nouvelle ville lui ont permis de créer rapidement un ensemble de compositions à la guitare, qu’il a voulu étoffer d’apports extérieurs via des cartes blanches octroyées à des musicien.ne.s estimé.e.s, Elyze Venne-Deshaies et Olivier Fairfield, pour donner à ses pièces une richesse impossible à planifier. Le résultat de leur collaboration est Mesures, un premier mini-album qui sortira au printemps 2021.