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Coin Gutter, a new strain of musique concrète from Western Canada and the Prairies.2 disc compilation by No Type label.morceaux_de_machines creates noise improvised computer music.4 groups, 4 full-length CDs: that’s the groundbreaking concept behind this specially priced box set from No Type to celebrate the burgeoning and already quite bewildering Montréal free improv scene.Chemin de fer is Magali Babin’s debut CD, though she is already well-known as one of the key players of improvised music and sound art in Montréal.Composer Jean Piché has written a dark and difficult opera for solo voice that is quite accessible harmonically at times. The music with its French and Spanish text by Yan Muckle is gripping, disturbing and mesmerizing. - Tiina Kiik, WholenoteThis is an album of solos and duets. Drawing inspiration from his research on African rhythms, Rainer Wiens has written complex pieces that have been magnificently performed by seasoned musicians from the Montréal new music scene.The four-disc box set Pandore illustrates the diversity found in Jocelyn Robert's sound universe.André Duchesne’s Cordes à danser is an impressionistic rock suite of 12 instrumental pictures inspired by the landscapes among which he spent his childhood, in the industrial atmosphere of the Saguenay.Mainly associated with jazz and creative music, Antoine Berthiaume delivers, with Small Tease, a surprising body of pieces standing on the fence of instrumental folk.Saturday Morning Empires, Intr_version's first compilation since 2000's.A first for Ambiances Magnétiques label, a specially priced box set bringing together all three CDs from Jean Derome and his band, Les Dangereux Zhoms
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