Morin-Heights studio | Five artists who marked the studio

For a few decades, Morin-Heights was the improbable destination for choosing the world music elite.

Sting – Morin-heights studio | five artists

During one of the first visits of Sting in Morin-Heights, André Perry presented to him Jean Roussel, a pianist of Mauritian origin who had built a reputation in England, morin-heights studio | five artists who had resulted in Quebec thanks to Cat Stevens and who had remained there after being in the end of a chorister (obviously).

Sting then played a play written in 1977 before the training of The Police. Moreover, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magicto which Roussel adds its characteristic part of piano.

“For me. Similarly, it was one of the most beautiful songs I had never heard,” recalls Jean Roussel, joined in France, where he now lives. Moreover, “I did not understand why the other members of The Police did not appreciate it. Moreover, »»

According to the numerous interviews granted morin-heights studio | five artists by the group. Nevertheless, in which the conflicts abounded, the guitarist Andy Summers and the drummer Stewart Copeland were indeed not crazy about this refrain, which they nevertheless tried to record with Roussel later in Montserrat, in the Caribbean, before returning to the demo version created by Sting and the pianist in Morin-Heights.

“The studio was a magical place,” sums up the musician. Furthermore, Even 30 kilometers away, we felt the love and personality of André and Yaël. Moreover, They were very refined. Moreover, It was a big place to create. For example, »»

Rush

En entrevue avec La Presse en mars dernier, le guitariste de Rush, Alex Lifeson, s’est remémoré les bons repas dégustés au Studio, ainsi qu’au restaurant d’André-Paul Moreau, La Bouffe en Broche, à Saint-Sauveur.

« Un studio résidentiel comme celui-là. For example, c’est parfait pour se concentrer et ne pas se laisser distraire par autre chose », explique celui dont le groupe a enregistré là-bas sept albums, dont certains de ses meilleurs : Permanent Waves (1980), Moving Pictures (1981) et Signals (1982). Moreover, « Et puis l’autre avantage, c’est qu’André [Perry] We learned a lot about wine. For example, morin-heights studio | five artists »»

“At the beginning. For example, they were not so sophisticated,” corroborates the founder of the studio laughing, before adding that he keeps his own knowledge of the art of the table of his attendance of French interpreters like Charles Aznavour and Mireille Mathieu. Similarly, “I noticed that as soon as we sit down. Furthermore, Rush’s guys ate a lot of bread, as if there was just one. For example, »»

Solution ? However, Print menus for each meal, which Yaël Brandeis has all kept. For example, “Like that, guys could know in advance that there were several services that came. »»

Paul Piché

“The main reason why I wanted to work in Morin-Heights is André Perry himself,” said Paul Piché, who created four records there from 1982, including On the fire path (1988). He is one of the few Quebecers (with Jean-Pierre Ferland) to have spent so many beautiful hours there.

André Perry suggests that if the artists visiting his studio appreciated his company as much. it was because he was first and foremost a creator, not a businessman. “I was one of their own,” he sums up.

With his album European morin-heights studio | five artists news (1984), Paul Piché renews his image, by stopping at the trends of the day. Its director? Paul Northfield. then the engineer of his in residence of the studio and who, internationally, is today renowned today for his work with … Rush!

“Paul and I got along super well,” recalls Piché. He was an English gentleman who drank his tea. who, in the studio, was not afraid to try business, with all the equipment that was cutting off. It was like going to the University of Music. »»

Intimate of nature, Paul Piché particularly appreciated his round trips between the guest house and the studio. While others took the morin-heights studio | five artists road, by car, stung him on foot in the forest. “Just being in the countryside, it was that all my other concerns flew away. It was music and just music. »»

Keith Richards

“We had to pay attention to what we said to the cleaning lady,” laughs Paul Piché, because she always ended up telling us what morin-heights studio | five artists the gang before had done to us. »»

This is how the author of Réjean weighing Heard what is legend in the history of the studio: one morning. the woman in question discovers, lying in front of the guest house, a man with snake boots and looking for a tramp, covered with his coat.

Did she call the police or only the studio’s bosses? The versions differ. but what is certain is that it was not a tramp but Keith Richards who, in the middle of the night, had simply forgotten the combination allowing him to enter.

It was in Morin-Heights that the Rolling Stone recorded morin-heights studio | five artists in 1987. 1988 his first solo album, Talk Is Cheap. His group of the time will be called the X-Tens Winos. because the bill was never too high, the pirate being the type to be composed directly in the studio, rather than upstream.

“The first days, they began to work around 8 p.m., then the next day at 10 p.m., then every day later,” said the engineer of his Glen Robinson. “The sun ended up getting up. I had to stick blankets in the windows so that the guys do not see the light in the morning. They were vampires that could jam infinitely. »»

Talk Is Cheap Was co -elderly by drummer Steve Jordan, who has since replaced Charlie Watts within Stones. “One night. recalls Robinson, Steve asks me to get him a bottle of wine, but he could barely speak, he had already drunk. I feared the worst. He opened the bottle. he moved as best he could and he began to play one of the most impeccable, the most straight grooves, which I heard in my life. »»

Morin-heights studio | five artists

Wilson Pickett

Even if he was always available to offer his advice to his customers, André Perry was generally involved in his business and has made few albums in the studio. How did he inherit the mandate of this disc by Wilson Pickett. the founding figure of American soul music from the 1960s?

It was then that he went to New York to obtain a contract for young hip-hop artists that he was offered this mission. of the kind that is not refused, by the Big Three label, which tried to rekindle the Pickett career.

André Perry. with his director of director, will call morin-heights studio | five artists on his friend Jean Roussel and the Quebec musician Marty Simon, who cozy several pieces ofI Want You (1979), dont Shameless. The album will not meet the hoped -for success. but was sampled 30 years later by the American Rick Ross on Ashamedtaken from God Forgives, I Don’tappointed in 2013 in the best RAP category at Grammy.

“Being in the presence of Wilson Pickett is like being with BB King. Aretha Franklin, insists Jean Roussel. He arrived on Monday and he sang the songs one after the other in two days, Bang, Bang, Bang. It may be the biggest legend to have recorded in the studio. »»