As Laura Snapes’s interview points out in passing, the Angine de Poitrine mini-craze has led to unexpected celebrity for an important artistic partner: a Quebecois guitar-maker named Raphaël Le Breton. The double-necked guitar/bass at the heart of the Angine sound was originally built as a DIY project — not by Khn, who plays it, but by Klek, the drummer, who took a saw to some old fretboards in a fit of humorous inspiration. They brought their Frankenstein’s-monster to Le Breton, who has a home-based guitar shop in (even more remote) Alma, and had him turn it into something professional-grade and durable, with exact 24-TET tuning (you’re welcome, music-theory nerds).





