Tag Archives: Fly Pan Am

Mixtape #128

01 July 2021

Legendary Montreal experimental rock quartet Fly Pan Am exist in an audacious musical world, constantly expanding the boundaries of style and genre. Forging their own sound, the band’s unique blend of genres has earned them a cult following around the world. After a 14-year hiatus during which each of the four members were involved in various musical projects, they reunited in 2018. Following the acclaimed C’est ça released in 2019, their latest album, Frontera, originally composed as a score to a contemporary dance piece, is a monumental sonic offering. So we're thrilled to start July with this beast of a mix the band put together for us. It’s after your ears so just press play!

  1. Ulla – Smile [Experiences Ltd.]
  2. Actress – Marble Plexus [Honest Jon's Records]
  3. Pharmakon – Autoimmune [Sacred Bones Records]
  4. Dome – Rolling Upon My Day [Dome Records / Editions Mego]
  5. Loop – A Vision Stain [Chapter 22]
  6. ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ – Swoeks [Motion Ward]
  7. Gasp – Silk Orbita [Slap A Ham Records]
  8. Oto Hiax – Flist [Editions Mego]
  9. CoH – Path # 03 (Dynamo Baby, Bore me Numb) [Raster-Noton]
  10. Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising [SST Records]
  11. S.P.K. – Cry From the Sanatorium [Mute / The Grey Area]
  12. Lush – Downer [4AD]
  13. Aho Ssan – Simulacrum III [Subtext]
  14. Sparks – The Number One Song In Heaven [Virgin]

Fly Pan Am share accompanying video for new single ‘Grid / Wall’

30 April 2021

Fly Pan Am are getting ready to unveil Frontera, their new album originally composed as a soundtrack to a contemporary dance piece of the same name. Following the first single ‘Scanner’, the Canadian quartet are enticing us again with the album’s opening track ‘Grid / Wall’, which also opened the dance production. ‘Grid / Wall’ is offered with a video that gives a perfect window into the live multi-media show, with the 10 dancers and Fly Pan Am performing on stage. The video was created by Montréal creative/design duo Huot & Vallentin, and you can watch it below.

Frontera is out on May 21st through Constellation

Fly Pan Am set to release new album, Frontera, in May

16 March 2021

Photo: Yannick Grandmont

Frontera is the title of the new album from Canadian quartet Fly Pan Am, following their 2019 C’est ça. Originally composed as a soundtrack to a contemporary dance piece of the same name, Frontera is a multimedia performance devised with Dana Gingras and her Montreal dance company Animals Of Distinction. Fly Pan Am performed it live as part of the dance production until early 2020 when the pandemic brought everything to a halt, and later in the summer the quartet recorded the work with Radwan Moumneh at Hotel2Tango. According to the press release, “the studio album superbly captures the bristling, sculpted, intensely evocative live score” and is further described as “their most direct, visceral and immediately satisfying work”.

Frontera is set for release on May 21st through Constellation and Fly Pan Am have shared the first single, ‘Scanner’. Take a listen below and check out the album teaser straight after.