Jusqu’ aux p’tites heures (en anglais (English) "Until the small hours) is a studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Canadian folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 band La Bottine Souriante

La Bottine Souriante

La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec specialising in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist.Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a...

. Released in 1991, it contains an assortment of reel

Reel

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s as well as traditional songs with the addition of modern instruments. The theme of alcohol

Alcohol

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 is recurrent in this album. The album was certified Platinum by the CRIA

Canadian Recording Industry Association

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 in December 2002.

Track listing

all songs arranged by La Bottine Souriante, except track 12, with additional arrangers specified.

1. "La chanson du quéteux" (Ovila Légaré - arr:Jean Fréchette)
2. "Le reel de Pointe-au-Pic" (Traditional - arr:Denis Fréchette, J. Fréchette)
3. "Un p'tit coup mesdames" (Traditional)
4. "Nuit sauvage" (Michel Bordeleau - arr:J. Fréchette)
5. "Par un dimanche au soir (ou Ninette)" (Traditional - arr:J. Fréchette)
6. "L'Acadienne" (Traditional - arr:J. Fréchette)
7. "Émilien" (Raymond Lévesque - arr:J. Fréchette)
8. "Corps mort" (Traditional - arr:D. Fréchette, J. Fréchette) and "Fleur de Mandragore" (Bordeleau - arr:J. Fréchette)
9. "Turlutte des 33 voleurs" (Michel Faubert)
10. "Brandy Payette" (Traditional - arr:D. Fréchette, J. Fréchette)
11. "Picoro" (Traditional)
12. "«Dérap» de la guerre" (Yves Lambert)

Personnel

• Régent Archambault, double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  , vocals
• Michel Bordeleau, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , snare drum
  Snare drum
  The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...
  
  , vocals
• Laflèche Doré, trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Robert Ellis, bass trombone
• Denis Fréchette, piano
  Piano
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  , piano accordion
  Piano accordion
  A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ. Its acoustic mechanism is more similar to that of an organ than a piano, as they are both wind instruments, but the term "piano accordion"—coined by Guido Deiro in 1910—has remained the popular...
  
  , vocals, brass
  Brass instrument
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   arrangement
• Jean Fréchette, saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , brass arrangement
• Yves Lambert, melodeon
  Melodeon (organ)
  A melodeon is a type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-operated vacuum bellows, and a piano keyboard. It differs from the related harmonium, which uses a pressure bellows. Melodeons were manufactured in the United States sometime after 1812 until the Civil War era...
  
  , accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , vocals
• Martin Racine, violin, vocals, guitar, piano accordion
• André Verreault, trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  

Credits

• Produced by Benjamin Kanters and La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec specialising in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist.Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a...
  
  
• Engineered by Benjamin Kanters
• Assistant engineer: Isabelle Larin
• Assistant producer: André Marchand
• A&R: La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec specialising in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist.Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a...
  
  
• Recorded and mixed at Studio St-Charles, Longueuil
  Longueuil
  Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly across from Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census totaled 229,330, making it the third largest city in...
  
  (Canada)
• Sleeve designer: Jean Bureau
• Photography: Pierre Guzzo