Christine Bougie
Country of origin:
Canada
Type of music generally:
Jazz
Status:
Most recent release, "Love Songs with the Queer Songbook Orchestra" (single, 2019); most recent full-length release, Whistle Up a World (2016)
See also:
Christine Bougie's Bandcamp pageChristine Bougie's MySpace page
Christine Bougie also plays in Finalboss
Comparisons:
Instrumental jazz isn't really our area, so it's hard to say
Covers/own material:
Own
General comments:
Christine Bougie makes highly melodic and highly listenable soft instrumental jazz. (sophiagurley@hotmail.com)
Recommended first album:
Hammy's Secret Life is the only one we've heard
Recordings:
- Hammy's Secret Life (2007)
- This Is Awesome (with Dafydd Hughes, 2008)
- Aloha Supreme (2011)
- Hearts and Galaxies (2012)
- It Will Record (with Dafydd Hughes, 2014)
- Music from The Rainbow Kid (soundtrack, 2015)
- Whistle Up a World (2016)
- Love Songs with the Queer Songbook Orchestra (single, 2019)
Hammy's Secret Life
Release info:
2007—self-released
Availability:
Unknown
Ecto priority:
Recommended for fans only, etc.
Group members:
Christine Bougie—guitars, lap steel, xylophone, jr. zither, banjo
Guest artists:
Dafydd Hughes—wurlitzer, medlodica, organ, synthesizer
Steve Zsirai—bass
Nick Fraser—drums
Adam Warner—percussion
Bryden Baird—trumpet, flugel horn, french horn
Dean Drouillard—melotron
Produced by:
Dean Drouillard
Comments:
Mellow but energetic and highly listenable guitar-based instrumentals with a quirky touch. This is music that rewards close listening to hear the instruments and how's she's playing with the melodies. I suspect Christine Bougie has a sense of humour. Actually, I know it, because nothing is more clear than the title with a cover drawing featuring a hamster dressed up as an Elvis impersonator wwith a woman beside him holding his hand in a bed with hearts at the heardboard and skulls with red candles on them at the footboard. Oh, and cherubic cats. The music is not quite that quirky, but it *is* that charming. (sophiagurley@hotmail.com)
Thanks to Sophia Gurley for work on this entry.
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