Timing, as they say, is everything. When the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal booked Angine de Poitrine for a free show on the TD Stage this past Saturday, June 27, they couldn't have known the masked duo from Saguenay would be, by opening weekend, arguably the biggest indie act on the planet. Maybe they did? Anyway, here we are.
The crowd started massing on Jeanne-Mance hours before the 9:30 p.m. start with polka-dot face paint, papier-mâché masks, triangle hats, the full liturgy. By the time Khn and Klek de Poitrine walked out (Khn wielding a new custom double-neck microtonal guitar built by Godin), the festival had done something it almost never does: closed the gates.
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