LUNE TRÈS BELLE’S SOPHOMORE LP OUT TODAY, SHARES NEW VIDEO 

LUNE TRÈS BELLE’S OVALE OUT NOW ON BOILED RECORDS 

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(“MOISISSURE” VIDEO STILL)

Lune très belle is the nü fusion project of Montréal composer and poet Frédérique Roy. Her music is an open form, at once unstable and reassuring: a pop neology of experimental, environmental sound. Her second album, Ovale, features the ensemble cast of Robin Dann and Phil Melanson of Toronto indie pop collagists Bernice, Samuel Gougoux of Montreal psych outfits VICTIME, Corridor, and Kee Avil), and Simon Labbé on guitars/synths. With chiming bells, percussive found sound, and alien atmospherics, Ovale embodies the allure of a shifting castle where rooms of different shapes and volumes bleed into each other. “Deliberately deliberate,” the album is a platform for Roy to explore new sounds through new collaborations, the result: a vaporous, windswept cloud of incidental jazz and daylight dreampop resonating in springtime harmony. 

Marking the arrival of Lune très belle's breathtaking sophomore record is the deeply meditative pop of "Moisissure" with accompanying music video-in-miniatures by director Kyla Gilbert. Featuring prevalent melodies within the amorphous organism of the Lune très belle ensemble, "Moisissure" reflects the voluminous beauty at the heart of the album, with texts sung delicately in French. "I like this song," says Roy. "I wrote it at a time when I was living three minutes away from my practice space. I could hear the church bells ring from my home and birds and strong winds from the studio – those are part of the song. I love Phil's bells, Simon's distortion, Robin's voice in echo at the end, Sam loosely but precisely supporting the strange harmonic journey." Intuiting the movements of the song, Gilbert's video is a microscopic investigation about the tortuous path of a line and the curious objects it encounters on its way. "I love following the thread Kyla created," says Roy, "morphing textures and colours like a dance of the sight, blurring the barrier between interior and exterior."

"In making the video for Moisissure, my desire was to have a dialogue with the song and ‘perform’ the video in real time,” says Gilbert. “The objects seen in the video are part of a miniature "set" that was navigated through for each take. As such, the video captures moments of discovery and moments of fallibility and is a record of time spent between movement and music."

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Lune très belle originated in 2016 with its debut album Ô la lune released in 2019, a raw and mostly live recording. More akin to the sound of wind chimes in waves, the recently released Ovale single “La mite” is lushly draped with melody; while “Mona” embodies the allure of a shifting castle where rooms of different dimensions and volumes bleed into each other. The result is a boldly tentative compositional experience that visits the amorphous spaces of artists like Grouper, the sonorous palette of Pat Metheny, and the pop affliction of Arthur Russell.  

WATCH / SHARE “LA MITE” HERE

A patient process of care and diligence, at times involving onerous negotiations and confusion, Ovale resolves itself in the beauty of the unresolvable. Roy, who is a published poet and works by day providing alternative resources to psychiatrized people, has created in Ovale a fluid, softly whelming suite of natural music that is built on interaction and closeness. “New sounds through new collaborations” is Roy’s driving force. “I wanted to make a coherent object, truthful to my instinct.” From her elegant poetry to its beautiful articulation, Lune très belle’s Ovale is elemental and elastic – the exhale at the beginning of a new season.

BUY / STREAM OVALE HERE

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OVALE TRACKLISTING
1. La mite
2. Refrain skylark
3. Moisissure
4. Maison
5. Refrain
6. Mona
7. Dogue
8. Siffleux
9. Œil magique
10. Refrain choral
11. Bye bye

PHOTO CREDIT: STACY LEE // HI-RES DOWNLOAD

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LUNE TRÈS BELLE RELEASES “DOGUE” AHEAD OF NEW LP

SOPHOMORE ALBUM OVALE OUT MAY 19 ON BOILED RECORDS 

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"Dogue" is the last salvo before the release of Montreal nü fusion ensemble Lune très belle's breathtaking sophomore record, Ovale (out May 19). With fluid, viscous harmony, and vivid, pictorial sound, the form-defying composition coalesces into a cloud of incidental jazz raining down unexpected distortion. Led by singer-songwriter Frédérique Roy with the vaporous accompaniment of Robin Dann and Phil Melanson of Bernice, Samuel Gougoux (Victime, Corridor, Kee Avil), and Simon Labbé, the music unfolds through a slow process of tending to sensations and the affective traces they leave behind them – on "Dogue" this is subtly organized into a collective breath, the tempo rubato of Ovale’s expansive arc. 

"’Dogue’ follows the path of a dog wandering through the night,” says Roy. “Sounds of magic dust courtesy of Phil (Melanson) fit the strange journey through the darkness. We tried different versions in between dips in the lake until we found the right elastic phrasing to make our tiny ensemble reach orchestral heights, with big sounds and more shift in the articulations than anywhere else on the album." 

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The “deliberately deliberate” music of Lune très belle follows a tortuous path that evokes the synergy of the players and its elements. A platform for Roy to explore new sounds through new collaborations, her compositions, her words (sung in French) are beautifully intuited through its vessels. “Ovale would never sound the way it sounds without the creativity, generosity, talent and input of Simon, Sam, Phil and Robin. I came with compositions, words and arrangement ideas,” Roy says, “and their ability to interpret, improvise, and enter in a dialogue with the material played a big role in actualizing the arrangements and the making of the album.” In a recent interview with FLOOD Magazine, Bernice’s Robin Dann said in turn that “Fred is one of the best songwriters I’ve ever come across. Her songs feel like miracles to me: deeply vulnerable and true.”

WATCH / SHARE “LA MITE” HERE

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Lune très belle originated in 2016 with its debut album Ô la lune released in 2019, a raw and mostly live recording. More akin to the sound of wind chimes in waves, the recently released Ovale single “La mite” is lushly draped with melody; while “Mona” embodies the allure of a shifting castle where rooms of different dimensions and volumes bleed into each other. The result is a boldly tentative compositional experience that visits the amorphous spaces of artists like Grouper, the sonorous palette of Pat Metheny, and the pop affliction of Arthur Russell.  

A patient process of care and diligence, at times involving onerous negotiations and confusion, Ovale resolves itself in the beauty of the unresolvable. Roy, who is a published poet and works by day providing alternative resources to psychiatrized people, has created in Ovale a fluid, softly whelming suite of natural music that is built on interaction and closeness. “New sounds through new collaborations” is Roy’s driving force. “I wanted to make a coherent object, truthful to my instinct.” From her elegant poetry to its beautiful articulation, Lune très belle’s Ovale is elemental and elastic – the exhale at the beginning of a new season.

PRE-ORDER OVALE HERE

ALBUM ARTWORK // HI-RES DOWNLOAD

OVALE TRACKLISTING
1. La mite
2. Refrain skylark
3. Moisissure
4. Maison
5. Refrain
6. Mona
7. Dogue
8. Siffleux
9. Œil magique
10. Refrain choral
11. Bye bye



“DOGUE” SINGLE ARTWORK // HI-RES DOWNLOAD

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LUNE TRÈS BELLE SHARES NEW SONG “MAISON”

SOPHOMORE ALBUM OVALE OUT MAY 19 ON BOILED RECORDS 

FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL POP ENSEMBLE PERFORMS MARCH 9 IN TORONTO AND MARCH 12 IN MONTREAL

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PHOTO CREDIT: STACY LEE // HI-RES DOWNLOAD

Lune très belle is the nü fusion project of Montréal composer, poet, and singer Frédérique Roy. Her music is an open form, at once unstable and reassuring: a pop neology of environmental sound. Today, Roy shares new song “Maison” from Lune très belle’s vastly beautiful second album Ovale. Joined by an ensemble featuring Robin Dann (vocals, recorder) and Philippe Melanson (modular synth) of Toronto indie pop collagists Bernice, Samuel Gougoux (electric bass) of VICTIME, Corridor, Kee Avil, and Simon Labbé (guitar, synths), “Maison” brims with the essence of Ovale as one of the album’s most patient and expansive compositions. Viscous melodies fill the rooms of a shape-shifting house, coalescing into impressions of incidental jazz and anti-form chamber pop, with texts sung delicately in French about evolving memories of a familiar place. 

“Staying with confusion gives a certain drive,” Roy explains. “Through the uncertainty of a gaze, the house changes shape, becomes a playground to find home. Its structure, its beams awaken memory and invent memories. ‘Maison’ is perhaps an ode to contradictions, an invitation to abandon oneself to them.”

BUY / STREAM “MAISON” HERE

The “deliberately deliberate” music of Lune très belle follows a tortuous path that evokes the synergy of the players and its elements. A platform for Roy to explore new sounds through new collaborations, her compositions, words, and arrangements are beautifully intuited through its vessels. “Ovale would never sound the way it sounds without the creativity, generosity, talent and input of Simon, Sam, Phil and Robin. I came with compositions, words and arrangement ideas,” Roy says, “and their ability to interpret, improvise, and enter in a dialogue with the material played a big role in actualizing the arrangements and the making of the album.”

WATCH / SHARE “LA MITE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LA MITE” HERE

Lune très belle originated in 2016 with its debut album Ô la lune released in 2019, a raw and mostly live recording that Roy describes as a series of long shared breaths. More akin to the sound of wind chimes in waves, the recently released Ovale single “La mite” is lushly draped with melody; while “Mona” embodies the allure of a shifting castle where rooms of different dimensions and volumes bleed into each other. The result is a boldly tentative compositional experience that visits the vaporous spaces of artists like Grouper, with the sonorous palette of Pat Metheny, anchored in the pop affliction of Arthur Russell.  

LISTEN TO “MONA” HERE

A patient process of care and diligence, at times involving onerous negotiations and confusion, Ovale resolves itself in the beauty of the unresolvable. Roy’s work unfolds through a slow process of tending to sensations and the affective traces they leave on her, turning these traces into words and music just as fleeting. To stay true to the oblique nature of this form of translation, the texts and songs she assembles propose no clear paths to follow, but the process of wandering itself as an image. Roy, who is a published poet and works by day providing alternative resources to psychiatrized people, has created in Ovale a fluid, softly whelming suite of natural music that is built on interaction and closeness. “New sounds through new collaborations” is Roy’s driving force. “I wanted to make a coherent object, truthful to my instinct.” From her elegant poetry to its beautiful articulation, Lune très belle’s Ovale is elemental and elastic – the exhale at the beginning of a new season.

PRE-ORDER OVALE HERE

ALBUM ARTWORK // HI-RES DOWNLOAD

OVALE TRACKLISTING
1. La mite
2. Refrain skylark
3. Moisissure
4. Maison
5. Refrain
6. Mona
7. Dogue
8. Siffleux
9. Œil magique
10. Refrain choral
11. Bye bye

“MAISON” SINGLE ARTWORK // HI-RES DOWNLOAD

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