| Petit traité de sagesse pratique (“A Short Treatise on Practical Wisdom”) is a series of miniature songs whose texts—some ironic or mocking, others of (intentionally) questionable value—are drawn from those great popular guides we call proverbs. These reflections on morality, often out-of-date, are re-examined, reworked, and ‘de-moralized’ by Diane Labrosse, who humorously offers them up as collected pearls of wisdom, restrung on a new thread.
Petit traité de sagesse pratique is also a collage of atmospheres, moods and textures fixed in space. The pairing of lyricism and noise, of improvisation and written composition, and of humor and poetry, is the driving force, and Diane Labrosse ties everything together by drawing inspiration from baroque and medieval music, from folk and contemporary music, from jazz, from jingles, from blues, and so on. |