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Montag (Antoine Bédard) recently returned to Montreal after three years in Vancouver. After the successful release of ‘Going Places’ (2007), Montag toured in Japan, Mexico, France, Singapore, Holland, Belgium, the UK, the US and across Canada. His side projects in 2008 included several collaborations with contemporary dance and theatre artists in Vancouver and Montreal, scoring an animation film and releasing series of remixes for the likes of M83, Au Revoir Simone, You Say Party! We Say Die!, I’m From Barcelona and more.

2009 will be the release of a new Montag album, but to warm up the first weeks of winter, Montag teams up with Paper Bag Digital to release HIBERNATION, a self-produced EP featuring mostly instrumental tracks combining orchestral arrangements with vintage keyboards. A favorite project before a new release, Montag’s EPs allow him to experiment with new ways of composing while exploring familiar themes: memory, love, the passage of time and of course, winter.

HIBERNATION is inspired by the long and cold winters of Montag’s present life in Montréal and early childhood in Nunavik, Quebec. Only a few weeks after his return in his hometown, just as the temperature dropped below zero, Montag bundled up and stayed in with his synths and souvenirs, putting together a series of wintry compositions in a two-week recording session. Returning to Montreal also inspired a stylistic return to his earlier work and on HIBERNATION, Montag offers a soundtrack for chilly winter nights, a sonic blanket of warm strings and old synths assembled in nostalgic and crystalline melodies.

HIBERNATION’s user manual is simple: find a warm place, blankets and something hot to drink, put some headphones on, press play and stay there all day.

Track Listing

1. Nord I
2. Blobal Warning
3. Nord II
4. La Symétrie Du Coeur
5. Nord III
6. Global (Heart) Warming
7. Labrador (Encore)
8. Inner Thought About Kuujjuaq