{"title":"Fly Pan Am","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFly Pan Am is a Montreal-based rock quintet formed in 1996. They emerged alongside other instrumental\/experimental rock groups such as Exhaust, *Godspeed You! Black Emperor*, and *The Shalabi Effect*. Known for their melodic ear and (de)construction approach, Fly Pan Am draws inspiration from French pop, krautrock, minimalism, and musique concrète in punk rock. After four releases of chiming instrumental rock from 1998–2005, the band went on hiatus in 2006. However, they reformed in 2018 with their original members and released the album \"C'est ça\" in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith influences ranging from *Hangedup* to *Tortoise*, Fly Pan Am's music resonates with fans who appreciate intricate interweaving guitar and bass lines propelled by insistent motorik drumming. Their sound captures the unfulfilled possibilities of minimalism while embracing experimentalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoy artists like *1-Speed Bike*, *Do Make Say Think*, or *Labradford*, then Fly Pan Am is a must-listen for you. Their unique blend of genres creates an immersive musical experience that will leave you wanting more.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"frontera","title":"Frontera","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoundtrack to the acclaimed multi-media dance work by Animals Of Distinction. Fly Pan Am have composed some of their most direct, visceral and immediately satisfying music for the acclaimed modern dance piece \u003ci\u003eFrontera\u003c\/i\u003e, by Montréal-based troupe Animals Of Distinction. Juxtaposing stern foreboding electronics and minimalist motoric avant-rock, the \u003ci\u003eFrontera\u003c\/i\u003e studio album superbly captures the bristling, sculpted, intensely evocative instrumental pieces the band developed in close conception and collaboration with the dancers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the \u003ci\u003eFrontera\u003c\/i\u003e recordings demonstrate, this music also works powerfully and exceptionally well on its own: oscillating between tension and release; evoking open, anxious interzones and closed, claustrophobic spaces; conveying an overarching landscape of forbidden access, foreclosed movement, and the unfathomable multiplicities of trauma and resilience that occur under our dehumanising international apparatuses of inadmissibility and control. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grid\/Wall”, “Fences” and “Parkour” combine electronics and spartan four-piece avantrock that set bodies in alternately furtive and laboured motion. The pulsing synthetics and noise textures of the more overtly technetronic “Scanner”, “Scaling”, “Body Pressure” and “Frontier” pin bodies down, whether hiding in corners, crawling for cover, or exposed to the searchlights. Field recordings contributed by David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hiss Tracts, Set Fire To Flames) comprise some of the raw material here too. The \u003ci\u003eFrontera\u003c\/i\u003e album tracks faithfully to the narrative of the original work, where eight movements (featuring a company of 10 dancers) flow from controlled chaos and tensely choreographed kinetics to slow, wrenchingly austere set pieces. This tremendous multimedia performance - framed by the stark and peerless lighting design of United Visual Artists—is a discerning and deeply affecting meditation on borders and surveillance, resistance and separation, solidarity and cooperation; bodies blocked and restrained, monitored and pursued, hiding and escaping, yearning and overcoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter touring as the live band for the \u003ci\u003eFrontera\u003c\/i\u003e dance production into early 2020, the pandemic brought further performance dates to an abrupt halt (along with Fly Pan Am’s own scheduled UK\/EU tours, in support of their terrific 2019 comeback album \u003ci\u003eC’est ça\u003c\/i\u003e). But during an easing of lockdown restrictions in late summer, the band was able to convene with Constellation’s go-to producer Radwan Moumneh at the storied Hotel2Tango in Montréal to put this soundtrack to tape. 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The band's heady collision of motorik repetition, shoegaze maximalism, punk skronk, tape- and electronic- based interventions and audio sabotage, garnered them a cult following among fans of audaciously deconstructed post-rock. Fly Pan Am quietly reunited in late 2017 for purely artistic reasons (needless to say), to explore making new music together after more than a decade spent in pursuit of separate sonic adventures. Within weeks, it was clear the band was firing on all cylinders again, brimming with electricity and eager to pick up where they’d left off with their last album \u003ci\u003eN’écoutez Pas \u003c\/i\u003eback in 2004: pushing further into full- spectrum intersections of noise pop, post-punk, power electronics and musique concrète, while continuing to incorporate shrouded, textural vocals as alternately melodic and visceral components. \u003ci\u003eC'est Ca\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome return to form - an album of undeniably renewed vitality and experimentation where rock structures underpinned by J.S. Truchy's trademark rapid-fire bass and Felix Morel's disciplined, ascetic drumming are submerged beneath waves of processed guitar by Roger Tellier-Craig and Jonathan Parant, with fluorescent noise treatments and sonic vandalisms wrought by all four. Songs variously nod to key influences like MBV and Husker Du, the intrepid proto-Kosmiche of This Heat and Can, and later style-adjacent torchbearers like Boredoms, Flying Saucer Attack and Trans Am - all the while collapsing into\/out of themselves in various ways. 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