Les Jupes are a rock band from Winnipeg, Canada. Dynamic, taughtly arranged and slightly frantic, they are charting a course for international success though impeccable songwriting and spirited musicianship.
These are broad songs. Poetic songs. Topical songs about long-dead Russian prime ministers, ghosts, spiritual rebellion, your brother, and barely keeping it together. These are songs to raise your flutes. To raise your lyres. To explore. To hope. To chastise and reminisce. These are songs to dig into.
Les Jupes’ debut album Modern Myths is built on Mike Petkau Falk’s brooding baritone, charging through waves of psychedelia and driving rhythms. Pounding, introspective, at times fierce, at times playful. It is purposefully dyslexic - an echo of the characters entombed and a mirror of the writer. Having moved to Montreal and quitting music in 2006, this album culminates the creative turnaround of “the patron saint of the Winnipeg music scene” (Jaxon Haldane) - a process which also brought us the much beloved and groundbreaking Record Of The Week Club.
Modern Myths was recorded over a year and a half when producer/engineer Marcus Paquin (frontman of Last Gang's Silver Starling) found time from working on Arcade Fire's “The Suburbs”.
While Les Jupes are new, their members have been doing interesting things for some time. Mike produces bands (twice nominated for Recording Engineer Of The Year at the WCMAs), is the Artistic Director of Winnipeg's venerable West End Cultural Centre, and produced the Record Of The Week Club - whose single Keewatin Arctic features The Weakerthans' John K Samson has met international acclaim. Mike also runs Head In The Sand Records (Royal Canoe) and used to sling guitar for The Liptonians.
Jesse plays in the synth-laden Mahogany Frog. David is an 18-year old workhorse who plays in 3 other bands. And Dave hails from Edmonton's noted The Provincial Archive – transplanted to Winnipeg for law school.
Over the past 2 years Les Jupes have juggled lineup changes, performed at Sled Island, and written and performed a new original live score to the classic French/Czech animated film "Fantastic Planet". Mike also did the sound design and co-wrote the score for Cattle Call, which won Best Experimental Film at 2009 SXSW, as well as showcasing at Toronto IFF, Sundance, Budapest, and a host of other international film festivals – all part of Les Jupes’ cinematic vision.
These are broad songs. Poetic songs. Topical songs about long-dead Russian prime ministers, ghosts, spiritual rebellion, your brother, and barely keeping it together. These are songs to raise your flutes. To raise your lyres. To explore. To hope. To chastise and reminisce. These are songs to dig into.
Les Jupes’ debut album Modern Myths is built on Mike Petkau Falk’s brooding baritone, charging through waves of psychedelia and driving rhythms. Pounding, introspective, at times fierce, at times playful. It is purposefully dyslexic - an echo of the characters entombed and a mirror of the writer. Having moved to Montreal and quitting music in 2006, this album culminates the creative turnaround of “the patron saint of the Winnipeg music scene” (Jaxon Haldane) - a process which also brought us the much beloved and groundbreaking Record Of The Week Club.
Modern Myths was recorded over a year and a half when producer/engineer Marcus Paquin (frontman of Last Gang's Silver Starling) found time from working on Arcade Fire's “The Suburbs”.
While Les Jupes are new, their members have been doing interesting things for some time. Mike produces bands (twice nominated for Recording Engineer Of The Year at the WCMAs), is the Artistic Director of Winnipeg's venerable West End Cultural Centre, and produced the Record Of The Week Club - whose single Keewatin Arctic features The Weakerthans' John K Samson has met international acclaim. Mike also runs Head In The Sand Records (Royal Canoe) and used to sling guitar for The Liptonians.
Jesse plays in the synth-laden Mahogany Frog. David is an 18-year old workhorse who plays in 3 other bands. And Dave hails from Edmonton's noted The Provincial Archive – transplanted to Winnipeg for law school.
Over the past 2 years Les Jupes have juggled lineup changes, performed at Sled Island, and written and performed a new original live score to the classic French/Czech animated film "Fantastic Planet". Mike also did the sound design and co-wrote the score for Cattle Call, which won Best Experimental Film at 2009 SXSW, as well as showcasing at Toronto IFF, Sundance, Budapest, and a host of other international film festivals – all part of Les Jupes’ cinematic vision.
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