Fly Pan Am

Infobox musical artist
Name = Fly Pan Am

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Alias = Le Fly Pan Am
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Origin = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Genre = Post-rock
Experimental rock
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Years_active = 1996 – 2005
Label = Constellation
Associated_acts = Feu Thérèse
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
URL = [http://www.cstrecords.com/bands_flypanam.html Band's Constellation Website]
Current_members = Felix Morel
Eric Gingras
Jonathan Parant
Roger Tellier-Craig
Jean-Sebastian Truchy
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Fly Pan Am, or Le Fly Pan Am, are a Canadian experimental rock band formed in Montreal in 1996.Cite web|url=http://cstrecords.com/bands_flypanam.html|title=Fly Pan Am biography|accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=Constellation Records|year=2006|author=Constellation Records|work=Bands index|format=html] They release their albums through the Montreal-based Constellation Records, producing and collaborating on works with the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Shalabi Effect.

About the band

The band was formed in 1996 by guitarists Jonathan Parant and Roger Tellier-Craig, drummer Felix Morel, and bassist Jean-Sebastian Truchy. Eric Gingras would later on join the band in 2002, contributing guitar and percussion.

They shared personnel with Godspeed You! Black Emperor until guitarist Roger Tellier-Craig left Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2003 to concentrate full time on Fly Pan Am. The band are currently on a long term hiatus and it is not known when, or if, they will regroup.

The band is noticeably influenced by the French Canadian culture of Quebec, as well as the burgeoning avant-garde musical scene in Montreal. French is the predominant language used in producing albums and writing lyrics, with English peppered throughout. The track titles on past records, as stated by Roger Tellier-Craig, were written in a way to interpret the song, which Tellier-Craig concedes was "lost on most listeners" due to the French used.Cite web|url=http://www.southern.net/southern/news/?id=24|title=Interview with Roger Tellier-Craig of Fly Pan Am|accessdate=2007-03-27|publisher=Southern Records|year=2004|author=Powell, Mark|work=Interviews] Unorthodox use of electronic sounds, occasionally provided by Alexandre St-Onge, serve to intersect and often confuse the listener.Cite web|url=http://www.cstrecords.com/cst019.html|title=Le Fly Pan Am – "Ceux qui inventent n'ont jamais vécu (?)"|accessdate=2007-03-27|publisher=Constellation Records|year=2006|author=Constellation Records|work=Records index|format=html]

The group often records their albums at the Hotel2Tango, a recording studio owned by Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar of Godspeed You! Black Emperor fame, as well as Howard Bilerman. As a result of these ties, members of other Montreal-based bands sometimes participate as guest musicians or aid the recording process.

An announcement from the band in 2006 spoke of their indefinite hiatus and Jonathan Parant's part in Feu Thérèse.fact|date=March 2007 Felix currently drums for the psychedelic sludge band Panopticon Eyelids and for Les Enfants Sauvages.fact|date=March 2007 No other information about the other band members' current musical endeavors has been provided.

Discography

* "aMAZEzine! 7"" single with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, given away free with aMAZEzine! Magazine; 1998)
* "Fly Pan Am" (Constellation Records; 1999)
* "Sédatifs en fréquences et sillons" EP (Constellation Records; 2000)
* "Ceux qui inventent n'ont jamais vécu (?)" (Constellation Records; 2002)
* "N'écoutez pas" (Constellation Records; 2004)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.cstrecords.com/bands_flypanam.html Constellation Records' Fly Pan Am website]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/FlyPanAm Fly Pan Am collection] at the Internet Archive's live music archive
* [http://www.canuckistanmusic.com Canuckistan Music] [http://www.canuckistanmusic.com/index.php?maid=12 review of first LP]