Press review 2012

M’MICHÈLE mmichele.com

mmichele.bandcamp.com

Booking

Jean-Pierre Goguen jpg@mmichele.com

514.571.3499

Communication

Pauline Loctin pauline@mmichele.com

514.679.0117

Project description

Magnolia represents life: the strength, fragility and beauty that M’Michèle seeks to recreate with sensitivity and love through her harp. This first album is but a fragment of the music that she has offered us in the last year.

A snapshot, a souvenir, a glimpse, so that you can carry the heart and soul of this music with you wherever you go.

M’Michèle, accompanied by Stéphane Leclerc, creates an improvised instrumental music that describes the perpetual changes of all things surrounding us and is, in a certain way, a distilled and wholly authentic embodiment of the current times. Enjoy the moment as you soak in the captivating, soaring and electrifying music of Magnolia!

Magnolia is a fragment of the direction taken by M’Michèle. Her new album will appear in 2013 with a fresh indie/pop sound. The tour will start during the summer 2012.

Biography Author, songwriter, singer, M’Michèle M’Michèle will take part in the programming of Nuit Blanche 2012 in the installation presented by MASSIVart "Rite Nocturne". Also, she will participate in the creative project directed by DJ Mini in the “satosphère” at the Société de Arts Technologiques (SAT). In 2011, M’Michèle took part in several Festivals and events, such as the 2011 Nuit Blanche de Montréal, with a strong performance at the Musée d’Art Contemporain. She also wowed the crowd at the Chromatic event held by MASSIVart at the Société de Arts Technologiques (SAT). M’Michèle was selected to represent Canada at the 10th International Harp Festival in Amsterdam. She has performed in Zurich, Las Vegas as well as all over Canada and the United States. Her soft and delicate voice can be heard in the soundtrack of the film ‘Sortie 67’. The Farha Foundation called upon her to compose the music for their media campaign against AIDS. In 2008, she won the XM Satellite Radio grant.

M’Michèle has performed in : Festival Montréal en Lumière, Festival de musique du bout du monde, Twestival, Cramponne-toi, Série Découvertes de la Place-des-Arts, , Festival Bières et Saveurs, Festival Mix’Art, the Much Music Awards festivities, North by Northeast, and many launchings, such as Nebbia at the TNM, Intantanés by Stéphanie Leduc, Zone Verte by Lisanne Binette and many others.

You have heard her with the group French Kiss, most prominently at the FrancoFolies de Montréal. . The song ‘’Le Soupir’’ can be found on the album ‘Espace Émergence Volume 1’.

Early in her career, she was part of the resident band on VRAK TV’s Mauvais quart d’heure and played with Dr. Draw, Andrée Watters and many other artists on tour. She also collaborated on other album recordings, with artists such as Ariane Brunet, Yelo Molo, Dr. Draw, and others.

Discography  

M’Michèle Magnolia Album release Novembre 1st, 2011 Formation M’Michèle – Electric Harpe Stéphane « Fets » Leclerc – Programming Album Magnolia 1. Prologue 2. Magnolia 3. Inflexible 4. Délicate Fiction