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EDITOR / ART DIRECTOR

Sarah-Eve Leduc

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Ruby-Maude Rioux

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Marine Senges

Mélanie Araveyn Lessard

Sonia Staali

Ruby-Maude Rioux

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Aaron Joel Santos

Gemma Albors

Oumayma B. Tanfous

Sarah White

Tania Kezha

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Sarah Rousseau

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

Ryan Webb

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Dear Readers,

Our fourth issue offers stunning landscapes, exotic editorials, a local interview with an amazing and mythic band, and much more. This summer it’s all about traveling. I’ve always loved the idea of traveling and I have taken the time this summer to go for a trip. I love how you have to be fearless to travel and that it gives you strength, confidence, and shows you a side of the world - and yourself - you have never seen or felt before. I am very happy to present editorials from many places around the world; from here in Canada, to Vietnam and Thailand, to Barcelona. Enjoy this issue with the summer sun and don’t forget to take some time off to leave for an adventure of your own!

Sarah-Eve Leduc, Flanelle Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief

Editor's letter

FlanelleTHE TRAVEL ISSUE

FLANELLECONTENTS

3 / Masthead

4 / Editor’s Letter

6 / Table Of Content

8 / Get Away

16 / We Are Wolves

22 / Tropical Bird

34 / Memory Cloud

50 / Movie Playlist

56 / Mediterranean Flavor

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C O N V E R S AT I O NW I T H

WEAREWOLVES

BY MÉLANIE ARAVEYN LESSARD

How does We Are Wolves approach creation ?

Alexander Ortiz : I’d say the connection happens and it transcends you, you can’t know where it comes from, it stems from life experience. Vincent Lévesque : It’s just like when we are in the jam space, when it happens, you just know it works, it feels right.

A.O. : I don’t agree with it completely, when something good shows up, it becomes pernicious ; it takes a whole other dimension. It becomes psycho-analytical, for me. You’re not sure how it happened and start wondering how it even appeared.

You’re always questioning the origin of those inspired glimpses afterwards ?

A.O. : Yes, and I am always surprised by how right it feels, how comfortable I am with it. Yet. I won’t just accept it as plainly perfect, it feels right to reassess it. I don’t take it as being struck by the “ Thunder of God ” ! (laughs)

V.L. : To me it’s obvious that the songs on the albums, all happened from the right place.

A.O. : I believe most of it happens this way, but there is a lot of hard work involved; I work on it at home, I rethink things through. Six months later, you listen to it and it’s as if it had

17From left to right : Pierre-Luc Bégin, Alexander Ortiz, Vincent Lévesque

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Photographer : Sarah White Photography

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always been this way; the track stands on its own. You can’t even tell insomnia was involved!

Pierre-Luc Bégin: It’s like a puzzle you have to put togheter, and then it eventually falls into place.

A.O.: That’s it! And then you get to catch your breath! (laughs)

So you consciously carry the puzzle pieces with you until its done?

A.O.: I wouldn’t say that its a conscious thing, even if we always are in this continuous creative process. It’s a state of being; when I get off the metro, as I walked all the way here and back, it’s constant. I witness life, sometimes it’s beautiful, sometimes not so much, but there is always some-thing. It’s the same as making a sculpture, you remove all the extra weight of the marble, the dirt and then, it appears before you; you’re facing this powerful force. Most of what I write comes from very simple life events, as when some guy crosses the street walking his dog and checks out a beauti-ful girl which in turn happens to notice he did, it creates an interaction within humanity which is quite singular. It’s all a matter of paying attention to life.

Would you say that you translate your perspective on life and then put it into words?

A.O.: Its a matter of noticing small life events to then merge them with emotions you’re experiencing, like your own anx-iety, worries, the turbulences of happiness, how you feel around friends, when you work togheter, and then filter it through the words in your own universe, your own lexicon. This is when it turns into something more tangible. I wouldn’t call myself an everyday poet (laughs), its more of a connec-tion to the vitality of existence.

What would you say are the recurring themes in your vision with We Are Wolves?

V.L.: The themes you experience are not taken to the first degree, yet are very connected. For example, I like architec-ture, its something I naturally notice. It puts me in a state of mind conducive to creation. It is something that appears to be silent, but I perceive it to be particularly eloquent. It puts me in a place where I can experience emotions. But, of course, we don’t sing about architecture!! (laughs)

A.O.: There are great philosophies coming from the architec-tural thought structure, the origin of all mathematical struc-tures. The implication of humanity within it makes it alive, it adds motion and life to it.

P-L.B.: I agree with what’s been said; to me, it’s nothing tan-gible either, it’s more of a flow I feel, I rarely can isolate moments or situations where I could say:”THAT’S when I got inspired”. It’s a very spontaneous thing, the way I experience it, I am careful not to add filters. Taking it from the present moment.

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A.O.: I really enjoy the interaction between spontaneity and reflection; how through reflection, there always are acci-dental moments that can bring an entirely different vision, taking everything in a different direction. It happens quite often, when I work on a riff at home, I then bring it to the band and as we play it, a “mistake” happens, outside of our usual patterns, which will then create an interesting tension, that grabs our attention. We take time to live it through, spontaneously, to then reflect on it, craft it, turn it into some-thing more.

V.L.: When this happens, we usually will all hear it, it gets to us. We then isolate it so we can approach it again, plan it.

A.O.: Allowing parameters, the appropriate space for the instant to exist to use it to your advantage; allowing it to hurt you to make you feel the power of existence.

So this is all part of the emotional range where your cre-ativity comes from; life itself, yet anxiety and pain are still very much part of it.

A.O.: Absolutely. That’s what life is; falling in love with love; believing in love brings a lot of suffering, envy, jealousy. We are fascinated by this instant, this tiny light, the euphoria it creates. Its the delirium love creates! (laughs) Everybody is crazy about love! But we are all well aware that it can tear us up.

Now in a different direction, which word would you use to describe each album?

A.O.: As unoriginal as it seems, to me, what represents each one the best, is the album’s title. “Non-stop, je te pile en deux”, “Total Magique”, “Invisible Violence” and “La Mort Pop Club”, are exactly what they seem to be, in all of the com-plexity and the simplicity they might hold.

V.L.: It completely makes sense.

P-L.B.: Its remarkable how every title perfectly concurs with each of them. I wouldn’t necessarily say its the easy answer. It could have missed the point, fall flat, but it turns out to be right on it.

What would you wish what you do mean to people?

V.L.: There is something that’s always been there, about the way we do things, we rarely ever mentioned it, it’s something we have a hard time admitting to ourselves, but we wish people will feel like making music themselves, after having heard us. We found out we simply could do it; their was no goal to attain, we had no idea where we would take it. I’m still impressed by how such simple will of doing something brought us where we are now. I want people to feel it, so they want to get at it themselves. It makes me think of what was said of The Velvet Underground, everybody who saw them started a band afterwards! (laughs)

A.O.: Just like the handful of people present at The Sex Pis-tols first show. It’s a way to communicate the human expe-rience we get from making music ourselves. Someone else watching can then go; “you’re living the same thing as me”, connecting to what we do, its amazing.

P-L.B.: It’s then up to them to find the medium that suits them best!

For having seen you play many times, I always won-dered; where does this meeting between raw energy and sacredness that emanates from your music, comes from?

A.O.: Well, its all there; in this nearly animalistic way of experi-encing the music. It might sound cliché, but something does happen when you step on stage. Not for every single show we play, but there are times when, without being ablazed by the “mystical fire of creation”, you end end up completely high! Its from the interaction with the crowd, the shedding off of all your fears. It physically and mentally carries you in a different space.

V.L.: There is this notion of respect towards the sacred that we do have too.

This sacred angle is something noticeable, it gets your attention; not every band has that.

A.O.: I had a christian upbringing; when I was younger, I was fascinated by it. I was reading the Bilble. But as much as I had a fascination towards it, I had the same in wanting to get rid of it. I do not wish to become an atheist, but I work towards demystifying and understanding my relationship with God. What is God, what is the absence of God, what our relationship to the occult, be it spiritual or from a down to earth perspective.

V.L.: For a while, we had a little “mascot”, that we would put on a small shrine. It was like a lucky charm, we’d carry it with us and I’d have it on my synth when playing shows. We’re also very inspired by religious imagery, not limited to one religion.

A.O.: Humanity is constantly creating symbols, no matter what environment they’re in. Of course, we erected import-ant ones, huge statues representing important things to cer-tain people, but it gets interesting when you start question-ing your own relation to it all. We have no affiliation of any sort with any cult or religion, I”m not buddies with Aleister Crowley’s (laughs) and couldn’t say that we belong to any-thing. It’s just fine this way.

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Model : Alina BespalayaMake-up & Hair : Alina BespalayaPhoto: Tania Kezha

Location : Koh Phangan, Thailand

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Model : Alina BespalayaMake-up & Hair : Alina BespalayaPhoto: Tania Kezha

Location : Koh Phangan, Thailand

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Photographer : Aaron Joel SantosModels : Trang Pham

Designers : Sula Clothing Styling : Alison Taylor and Sula Clothing

Locations : Hanoi & Tam Dao, Vietnam

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« I’M-BETTER-AT-HOME »

BY RUBY-MAUDE RIOUX

When summer comes around, it’s nearly impossible to escape the idea of travelling. Travel agencies quickly explode their publicity budget, making it impossible to go through a day without seeing wonderful and exotic landscapes. However sometimes it isn’t always possible to get away, which is why I love movies. They allow us the ability to travel vicariously by making us experience the feelings and emotions of being on the road with their picture perfect impressions. That being said, here is my summer movie playlist for a “I’m-better-at-home” feeling.

Summer Movie Playlist

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BABEL :TO WATCH IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD SMALLER

Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel is a beauti-ful wave of emotion and compassion brought by together through four stories of four families that are linked by a single, devastating moment as life and death hang in the balance. We easily get attached to the characters, immediately caring about them even as everything starts to fall apart within the first five minutes of the movie. As I sat at the edge of my seat, I found myself screaming for help with the characters and even found myself waved my arms along with them. The director and producer successfully critiqued the American way of travel while acquainting the viewer with the danger of guns. In a time where gun legislation is regularly discussed in the American media, this movie, made in 2006, helps look at the problem with a different eye.

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ON THE ROAD : TO WATCH IF YOU ARE TRYING TO FIND THAT SOMETHING SPECIAL IN YOUR LIFE

I read the book before I watched On the Road. Throughout the film, we follow Sal Paradise, an aspiring writer, who is fol-lowing the steps of Dean Moriarty, an extravagant and living character looking for the essence of life through non-stop traveling. I was relieved to discover the untouched storyline of the book I adored mainly for its unpredictable characters. Though the book exposed Dean as a hyperactive Epicurean, as opposed to the troubled guy he appeared to be in the movie, the soul of the bohemian way of life of these neurotics charac-ter still vibrate in this road-trip movie.

INTO THE WILD :FOR THE ASPIRING TRUE TRAVELER

Watching Into the wild takes us on a journey across America, mostly through the eyes of Christopher McCandeless, a 23 years old, recent college graduate who decides to abandon it all to travel. Penniless, he wanders the road meeting people that soon become his dearest friends; all the while witnessing some of nature’s best creations. Never staying in one place long enough to feel home, his final destination is Alaska, where he would live completely detached from the society. This is a movie with a great moral, where it seems so easy and comfortable to just let go of the attachments we have with the world.

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ADVENTURELAND :TO CONVINCE YOURSELF YOU WANT TO TRAVEL

In the summer of 1987, James Brennen, who just finished a degree in comparative literature, has plans to travel to Europe, before heading to Columbia University for a degree in journalism. That is, before his parents announce to him they would not be able to pay for him to further his education. Every character, more disillusioned then the other, all have one common point : they all have failed in some point in there life and have ended up working in the attraction park, Adven-tureland sometimes shows itself to be deep and touching, as the movie constitute a warm and amusing reminder of what you don’t want to do this summer.

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Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN :FOR A EXCITING ROAD MOVIE ;)

Y Tu Mama Tambien is story of love, youth and sex. Tenoch and Julio, two long time friends, love to party, especially now that their girlfriends are away for the summer. When they meet Luisa, Tenoch’s cousin’s wife, they invite her to come to a secluded beach they claim to be incredible but that actually doesn’t exist. Even though she first refuses, trouble in her rela-tionship eventually help to convince her to get away for the weekend. Known for it’s controversial depiction of sexuality, the movie is truly about the blossoming of teenager’s sexual urges. The movie is also interesting as a cultural picture of Mexico in the beginning of the 20th century, showing the polit-ical and economic realities of this time.

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES :FOR AN AWAKENING MOVIE

The motorcycle diaries is the story of the transformation of Ernesto «Che» Guevara during the Marxist Revolution in Cuba as he becomes the major figure of the Cuban guerilla moment that he is now known to be. While traveling with his friend Alberto Grenado across South America, Che witnesses many injustices and encounters first hand the struggles between social classes. Guevara found his idealist vision of the world broke into pieces. Arousing the indignation in the same time the two young men faced for the first time communism and general misery, this movie has the power to awaken the social conscience of its viewers.

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Photographer : Gemma AlborsModel : Laura Tollesson (Francina Models)

Make up / Hair : Fleurina DiazStylist : Sushi Pop

Location : Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

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