Biography
Part of Montreal's vibrant experimental music community, Fly Pan Am ranked among the most deconstructivist groups on the Constellation roster. Their self-titled 1999 debut and subsequent releases delved into minimalist rhythms drawn from Krautrock alongside musique concrète methods of assembly, featuring sudden breaks and surges of electronic noise. After entering a lengthy hiatus near 2005, the group reassembled toward the close of the next decade, issuing their fourth album, the avant-noise-pop work C'est ça, in 2019 while also creating the score for the contemporary dance piece Frontera, which appeared as a soundtrack album in 2021.
Fly Pan Am formed in 1996 with guitarists Roger Tellier-Craig, then active in Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Jonathan Parant, drummer Felix Morel, and bassist Jean-Sebastien Truchy. A 1998 split 7" alongside Godspeed preceded the full-length Fly Pan Am, which presented five extended pieces moving between hypnotic pulses and stretches of near silence. Sédatifs en Fréquences et Sillons, an EP with production and input from additional GY!BE members, followed in 2000. Their second album, the noisier and more dissonant Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vécu (?), surfaced in 2002. Éric Gingras soon joined on guitar and percussion, prompting Tellier-Craig to exit Godspeed and focus solely on Fly Pan Am. The third album, N'Écoutez Pas, arrived in 2004 and brought shoegaze and post-hardcore elements into the mix.
Fly Pan Am declared an indefinite hiatus in 2006, after which each member pursued separate endeavors. Tellier-Craig and Gingras started the psych-pop outfit Pas Chic Chic, while Parant launched the electronic rock project Feu Thérèse. Through the 2010s Tellier-Craig issued cosmic synth-drone material as Le Révélateur and further avant-garde pieces under his own name, and Truchy operated the cassette imprint Los Discos Enfantasmes while placing experimental recordings on labels including Digitalis and Root Strata. Activity resumed in 2017, leading to the band's first live appearance in 14 years during September 2018. The following year brought C'est ça, which built on N'Écoutez Pas by folding in black metal and psychedelic touches. Fly Pan Am scored Frontera, the contemporary dance performance directed and choreographed by Dana Gingras, which opened at the Grand Théâtre du Québec in November 2019 before its soundtrack emerged in 2021.
Fly Pan Am formed in 1996 with guitarists Roger Tellier-Craig, then active in Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Jonathan Parant, drummer Felix Morel, and bassist Jean-Sebastien Truchy. A 1998 split 7" alongside Godspeed preceded the full-length Fly Pan Am, which presented five extended pieces moving between hypnotic pulses and stretches of near silence. Sédatifs en Fréquences et Sillons, an EP with production and input from additional GY!BE members, followed in 2000. Their second album, the noisier and more dissonant Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vécu (?), surfaced in 2002. Éric Gingras soon joined on guitar and percussion, prompting Tellier-Craig to exit Godspeed and focus solely on Fly Pan Am. The third album, N'Écoutez Pas, arrived in 2004 and brought shoegaze and post-hardcore elements into the mix.
Fly Pan Am declared an indefinite hiatus in 2006, after which each member pursued separate endeavors. Tellier-Craig and Gingras started the psych-pop outfit Pas Chic Chic, while Parant launched the electronic rock project Feu Thérèse. Through the 2010s Tellier-Craig issued cosmic synth-drone material as Le Révélateur and further avant-garde pieces under his own name, and Truchy operated the cassette imprint Los Discos Enfantasmes while placing experimental recordings on labels including Digitalis and Root Strata. Activity resumed in 2017, leading to the band's first live appearance in 14 years during September 2018. The following year brought C'est ça, which built on N'Écoutez Pas by folding in black metal and psychedelic touches. Fly Pan Am scored Frontera, the contemporary dance performance directed and choreographed by Dana Gingras, which opened at the Grand Théâtre du Québec in November 2019 before its soundtrack emerged in 2021.
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