DANIEL BÉLANGER

Mercure en mai

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May 17 2024

8pm

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Daniel Bélanger signs Mercure en mai, an album that celebrates human complicity and unexpected joys, released on Secret City Records. On a cold morning in February 2021, in the midst of the umpteenth wave of the pandemic, Daniel Bélanger was walking down a street in the Mile-Ex district in Montreal. With his hands deep in his pockets and his head slumped in his shoulders, he was perplexed by the thousand and one consequences of the health crisis, and in particular by the forbiddenness of sitting down in a warm café, as he likes to do. The song Soleil levant was born from meeting a small group of people on the street, "between a coffee and a good conversation", "solving the world’s problems one cup at a time". Words attentive to the astonishments, to the sudden, to these "small Californias" which sleep deep within us; music navigating between the minimal and the luxuriant, with boomerang motifs and secret passages: everything here tells of the impromptu, what escapes the agendas and reason. Daniel Bélanger's twelfth album is in the playful and introspective vein of his repertoire, while offering a picture of where we are collectively, with our thirst for elsewhere, for flight, our need to beat the pavement.