The album Ça goûte Noël, now available
Montreal, November 12, 2021 - Today, the a cappella vocal quartet QW4RTZ presents its first holiday album: Ça goûte Noël. An album that the group has been asked for since its creation in 2010! On this double CD, featuring Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal (Veni, veni Emmanuel), Marc Hervieux(Noël blanc), Anna-Sophie Neher(The White Cliffs of Dover), Les Itinérantes(Élégie du pain sandwich), Quartom (O Magnum Mysterium) and Julien Corriveau(Le Noël de M. Mousteille), we find various great Christmas classics together on side A, while side B offers holiday songs from a more pop repertoire with a subtle touch of bells and whistles!
After a few years of simmering, Ça goute Noël features tracks mostly in French, but also in English, Latin and German. An album that brings together all the ingredients for a festive recipe in two parts - like a Christmas Mini-Wheat - with whole wheat tracks, recorded in a chapel, a tribute to our Christmas of yesteryear and more frosty tracks produced in the studio... with a few surprises that taste of Christmas as a bonus.
4 GUYS, 4 RECIPES
As a bonus, for their 3rd career album, QW4RTZ incorporated four "delicious" original songs into Ça goûte Noël: Élégie du Pain-sandwich, Ma recette du bonheur, Gravlax and Keep It Real. Each member of the band took on the entire development of a song, from composing the lyrics and music to arranging and performing the entire score. And all the while, the other guys had no idea what was going on...!
"Originally, the recipes were just going to be a little addition to the album. We thought it would be fun to have everyone write a 30-second song where the only constraint was to talk about their favourite Christmas recipe. And to spice up the concept, we decided to keep the process secret until it was too late to change anything. When everyone finally revealed their song to the other band members, we realised that true to form, we had all put way too much into the project. The songs ended up being between 1:40 and 3:50; full songs proving that each guy is an artist in his own right."
- Louis Alexandre Beauchemin, singer.
"It's really cool to see that each guy went into a completely different style. François wrote a sandwich bread elegy in a post-impressionist, Rameau-esque style. Louis did a Nordic-textured narrated song about gravlax, Fa2 surprised us with a trap tune about creamed sugar and I did a power ballad about the one recipe I've mastered to perfection, Grilled Cheese."
- Philippe Courchesne Leboeuf, singer.
While all the members of the group took the challenge to heart, François Pothier Bouchard outdid himself by improvising a trip to France and a collaboration with the a cappella trio Les Itinérantes, all in the greatest secrecy.
"I was invited by Les Itinérantes to record the song in a castle in Burgundy. The castle even had a collection of planes. As I'm a pilot, I immediately jumped at the opportunity. I spent a week there without ever telling the guys. I even filmed some stories beforehand and published them during my stay to make it look like I was still in Quebec.
- François Pothier Bouchard, singer.
"He told us this when he showed us a documentary about his trip to France. I still can't believe that he could have hidden this from us. I didn't suspect anything."
- François "Fa2" Dubé, singer.
François' documentary on the process surrounding his song was released yesterday. See the video right HERE!
QW4RTZ launched their album yesterday in a sparkling event on their Facebook page. To watch the virtual launch of the album, their gourmet version of Christmas a cappella, visit the group's Facebook page or click HERE.
ÇA GOÛTE NOËL AVAILABLE TODAY IN PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL FORMAT, ON ALL PLATFORMS AND IN THE ONLINE SHOP!