Announcing a benefit & a new Bathyscaphe!

LE BATHYSCAPHE 9 arrived at the arbour!

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We just received our ninth issue and are getting ready to celebrate!

Now, as always, LE BATHYSCAPHE is published without grants or publicity: you are the only propeller!

Come and party with us on sunday may 12th 2013 at Sala Rossa in Montreal, you won't regret it!

SUNDAY MAY 12TH, doors at 18h30, starts at 19h30 :

Legendary american poet CHARLES PLYMELL will read, backed by MAURO PEZZENTE (GYBE) on bass.

Critic and poet BYRON COLEY will read, backed by BILL NACE (Body/Head, Vampire Belt) on guitar.

GABE LEVINE (Sackville, Black Ox Orchestar and his own great solo album) will pay a rare visit to Montreal and play with Keiko Devaux.

GREG WEBBER and his group KILL CHICAGO will burn.

MYRIAM GENDRON will sing from her Dorothy Parker project, backed by LAURENCE GENDRON on cello.

URBAIN DESBOIS will explode solo.

LE CLOU DE LA GANG are wild  ( new project from cabaret crazy members of L'Orchestre des Hommes Orchestres who just turned the province upside down with their Tom Waits and Kurt Weil shows)

At the end of the evening, the craziest dj's around : ROYAL AIR TOGO will take possession of your bodies and souls.

All this for a mere 15 dollars that will keep LE BATHYSCAPHE out of trouble and in deep waters for a few years.

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Read what Emily Raine of CULT MTL has to say about LE BATHYSCAPHE and this benefit party : here.

Issue number 9 will be available at a special price on that evening. Rare posters from Julie Doucet and Simon Bossé will be on sale. Amongst the many contributors of new issue 9 are Romy Ashby, Tosh Berman, Geneviève Castrée, Maïcke Castegnier, Benoît Chaput, Kerri Culhane, Byron Coley, Marci Denesiuk, Thierry Horguelin, Thurston Moore, Hermine Ortega, Antoine Peuchmaurd, Valerie Webber...  More infos right here soon on the content of this issue. Le Bathyscaphe is available at Feeding Tube records in Northampton and in many stores in Montreal, Québec city, Bruxelles, Liège, Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille. Also online at inkpusher.com. Website :  http://bathyscapheenglish.blogspot.ca

Bilingual journal builds cultural bridge

Article by Emily Raine, in Cult Mtl, on may 10 2013

Le Bathyscaphe

“We’re really at the crossroads between Europe and the USA and English Canada. And I think we need more things where we show that,” says Benoît Chaput, one of Le Bathyscaphe’s five editors. “With Le Bathyscaphe, we’re trying to really have this spirit of Montreal, a place where you can express yourself in English and French. And both cultural worlds are interesting, and whichever community you’re a part of, you should be interested in the other.”

We’re talking about the bilingual cultural paper he co-founded, which boasts an impressive roster of contributors, including regular columns by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore, wickedly funny and smart sex editorials by Valerie Webber and numerous explorations of the intersections between the worlds of art, music, poetry and space.

Each author writes in their preferred language, English or French. “There’s more and more people able to speak both languages,” he says. “I’ve been witnessing [this] since the ’80s in the community, and there’s more and more anglophones that actually speak French. This is very interesting, and I think it’s one of the strengths of Montreal.”

Le Bathyscaphe, he reveals, is all about translating different cultures to one another. “It’s really a friend thing that sort of evolved, since we’re all from different cultures, different generations and have a different approach, and we thought we should have a paper where you feel this thing, that we could talk about all these things from different points of view. What we really wanted was a paper that doesn’t talk about cultural actualities; we didn’t want to sell new cultural stuff. We wanted to do something where we talk about what matters to us, and it could reference stuff from 20 years ago or from last week as we please, not selling the new album that just came out.”

Le Bathyscaphe, which won best francophone zine for its latest issue at Expozine 2012, launches its ninth edition this Sunday, at a party and fundraiser at Sala featuring a full slate of readings and performances of all kinds, including readings from Byron Coley, Gabe Levine and Charles Plymell. The new issue promises a series of pieces about the “psycho-geography” of Mexico, an article about recently rediscovered street photographer Vivian Maier, a feature by LA Francophile Tosh Berman about Michel Legrand and an essay by Romy Ashby on the privatization of New York City’s libraries, while artist and musician Geneviève Castrée writes about the difficulties of living in rural America as a non-driver, and Webber’s sex column takes on the thorny issue of consent. In short, it’s all pretty interesting stuff, and it’s all over the cultural map.

Chaput also runs the French-language poetry press l’Oie de Cravan, which is partly what inspired the decision to found Le Bathyscaphe. “I started publishing poetry 20 years ago, and I was very interested in publishing not only books of poems but also other things that I found very poetical, personally, such as drawings, sort of poetical comics. But I’ve also been a lot into the music scene, and I started to publish books by musicians like Mike Watt, and then I published this book by Byron Coley,” he says. These cross-genre explorations, he explains, “have always been part of my life and my way of publishing.

“We’re trying to be a little bit international in a way. It’s in English and French, so everybody writes in their own language, and part of our public can’t read all the paper. It’s a very Montreal thing.” ■

Le Bathyscaphe launch party for issue #9 and fundraiser takes place Sunday, May 12, with readings by Byron Coley accompanied by Bill Nace, Charles Plymell accompanied by Mauro Pezzente, Gabe Levine, Urbain Desbois, music by Le Clou de la Gang, Kill Chicago and Myriam and Laurence Gendron and a DJ set by Royal Air Togo, La Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent), 6 p.m., $15

HURRAY FOR THE UNDERWATER UNDERGROUND!

We are very proud to announce that LE BATHYSCPAPHE won the prestigious EXPOZINE AWARD for best fanzine for its latest, november 2012, 8th issue! The jury wrote that LE BATHYSCAPHE won " For the general quality of the publication, the perfect layout, the excellent quality of the articles. The existence of such a paper is a necessity. Long live Le Bathyscaphe!"

To assure a long life to our publication, we are preparing a beautiful benefit festival that will take place at Sala Rossa in Montreal on may 12th 2013.  More news soon, right here!

BATHYSCAPHE NUMBER 8

Again, it took a year : that is a long time for a paper that comes out may times a year. But here it is at last : Bathyscaphe issue number 8!

In this issue Romy Ashby  Jean-Yves Bériou  Daniel Canty  Maxime Catellier  Maïcke Castegnier  Geneviève Castrée  Benoît Chaput  Byron Coley  Bérengère Cournut  Hélène Frédérick  Joël Gayraud  Clément de Gaulejac  Sarah Gilbert  Thierry Horguelin  Julien Lefort  Thurston Moore  Hermine Ortega  Antoine Peuchmaurd  Mark Read  Pierre Rothlisberger  Barthélémy Schwartz  Valerie Webber  and Emma Young

will tell you everything about

The real story behing Occupy New York's  Bat Signal,  Jean Charest - the now departed Père Ubu of Québec, The mysterious disapearance of Montreal's Griffintown and Faubourg à m'lasse neigbourhoods,  The tragic end of the American Space Age, The return of 70's Quebec underground magazine Mainmise,  Tomas Tranströmer in the lonely Swiss forest, Martha's Vineyard's ghosts, Underground poetry publishers Birds LLC, Paulo Coelho's bad taste, The Poetry Out Loud record series,  Joanne Kyger  hospitality in Bolinas California, Neil Young & Bugs Bunny in Albuquerque's Bosque,  Inactual news about  Harry Crews. André Hardellet. Joël Cornuault. Henri Calet. André D'Hôtel and Jean-Pierre Le Goff, How pretty are the condoms in porn ? Is Alain Cavalier as politcal as Gus Van Sant ? Benjamin Péret and his ties,  Didier Éribon and the strange passageways from Québec to Paris, The sad destiny of US post offices, Secrets of the celtic other world  : all this and more in our new issue!

LE BATHYSCAPHE iS A SHIP 

RUNNING WITHOUT PUBLICITY OR GRANTS!
YOU ARE THE SOLE FUEL PROVIDER TO OUR ENGINES !

FROM NEW YORK CITY TO LIÈGE OUR TEAM IS INTERNATIONAL

OUR LANGUAGES ARE FRENCH AND ENGLISH

Subscribe right now to receive the 4 next issues to your door.

It's easy, simply send 25 dollars to Le Bathyscaphe, 

5545 rue Saint-Dominique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2T 1V5

and the postal service will do the rest!

You can buy us online at INK PUSHER,

in a lot of bookstores in Montreal, through the province of Quebec, in Belgium and France,
and  at Feeding Tube records in Northampton, Mass. 

BATHYSCAPHE SEVEN IS IN THE HARBOUR

Launched next sunday, september 18th, with drinks and cheers at the famous Port de tête bookstore at 262 Mont-Royal east in Montreal. Starts at five for the sunday strollers.

The new issue of Julie Doucet's DER STEIN will also be launched 

along with a brand new L'Oie de Cravan book on crazy typography!

BATHYSCAPHE 7

After so long it seems incredible but we just received the news by special Torpedo-Express Mail  : Le Bathyscaphe 7 is arriving soon! It seems that we'll be able to post a launch date pretty soon.  For now, we are able to announce the names of the team of this forthcoming issue :

Romy Ashby, Anne-Marie Beeckman, Jean-Yves Bériou, Daniel Canty, Maïcke Castegnier, Geneviève Castrée, Maxime Catellier, Benoît Chaput, Byron Coley, Bérengère Cournut, Patrice Desbiens,  Julie Doucet, Hélène Frédérick, Joël Gayraud, Sarah Gilbert, Dan Hillier, Thierry Horguelin, A.J. Kinik,  Gabriel Landry, Gabriel Levine, Setrak Manoukian, Thurston Moore, Monsieur Moulino (Marc Pantanella), Antoine Peuchmaurd, Barthélémy Schwartz, Valérie Webber, Emma Young

And we heard that the following subjects will be covered :

Albuquerque beyond Good and Evil, secrets of the Other World, Capitain Beefheart as seen by Patrice Desbiens in 1970, interview with the great surrealist artist Jean Benoit, the Cascadia coast, on the passing of Ira Cohen, the run for private primary schools, Justice for André Dhôtel,  Jacques Higelin, mysteries of Michael Hurley, guest teaching at the Jack Kerouak School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa), Lac Saint-Jean and boredom, singer Eric Lapointe and Quebec's National Fest, Nancy Luce and Martha's Vineyard, Bruno Montpied and Anarchist gardens, Montréal in the movies, Odilon-Jean Périer, books on the table of Pierre Peuchmaurd, Sex and the Internet, Surréalism and After-War Art, the mysterious Doctor Tran, the Throwing Muses, the Tuba player of  Mile-End's railroad and our Great Game and Unusual Typography!

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