SOCAN Song of the Week

Flore Laurentienne - “Fleuve VII”

• Written by Mathieu David Gagnon
  
• Published by Secret City Records
  
• Photo by Alex Blouin and Jodi Heartz
  
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• After seeing three songs from his album 8 tableaux featured in the César-nominated film Nino, and a composition from Volume I used in a Louis Vuitton ad campaign, Flore Laurentienne -- the project of composer and orchestrator Mathieu David Gagnon -- presents Fleuve VII, taken from his album Volume III, due for release April 10. Buoyed by a refined dialogue between piano and strings, the piece is written in a minimalist, hypnotic style. Says Gagnon: “I created this series of pieces, called Fleuve, based on a fairly simple concept: always re-using the same chords, but in a different order. The idea is to evoke the changing character of the St. Lawrence River.”