Composer and self-taught guitarist, Sébastien Delorme is mainly active in the art-punk group Saints Martyrs and the instrumental quartet Mon Amie Souffrance. The first, halfway between protest music, free-improv and horror theatre, counterbalances the second, a sort of hybrid of post-punk and progressive rock, combining darkness and good-natured playfulness in a sporting deployment of technicality. He was also a member of the Improvised Music Ensemble of Quebec (EMIQ) for several years, under the direction of Rémy Bélanger de Beauport.
His approach to music is a hybrid between sound experimentation and established genres such as trip-hop, hardcore punk or folk. Popular music particularly animates it, in its great demonstrations of the ardent and visceral passions of the average individual.
Marked by severe addiction and mental health issues, his life journey resonates fundamentally in his artistic practice, which seeks to express the intense yet fragile human emotions that accompany marginality. In this spirit, his compositions are often straddling a destructuring violence and a resilient beauty that remains or that emerges and rebuilds itself.
In recent years, he has worked closely with a multitude of artists from all walks of life, from jazz and improvisation (Stéphane Diamantakiou) to rock (Keith Kouna, Navet Confit), to song with a more poetic character. (Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Charlotte Brousseau, Alexandre Martel – alias Anatole). His work as an artist often has a social impact, which has led him to share the stage with personalities such as Catherine Dorion or to work within the framework of cultural mediation or awareness projects, for the Centers jeunesse du Québec or United Way, for example.
Formerly based in Pantoum in Quebec, Sébastien now lives in Ste-Rose-du-Nord where he has set up a studio in the salutary tranquility of waves, mountains and wind.
