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Improvised music using piano, objects, alto sax, voice and body. Music that is strange, expansive and elusive.Luminance is pianist Marilyn Lerner's solo debut on Ambiances Magnétiques.While Tim Brady's three previous Ambiances Magnétiques releases were all focused more on his work as a composer, GO [Guitar Obsession] brings the guitar back to centre stage.An account of a man's last agonizing moments, Danielle Palardy Roger's Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles is a secular ritual involving three characters: HIM, who is dying; HER, the ironic observer; the CHOIR and SOLOISTS, empathic and omnipresent.Idiolalla is actually a vocal illness, a made-up language infection.Oralizations offers works spanning Paul Dutton’s more than thirty years of bursting the bonds of convention, testing the extremes of voice and verbalization, and blurring the borders between literature and music.On this disc soloist Lori Freedman presents thirteen new improvised pieces for soprano and bass clarinets that were recorded at Radio-Canada’s Studio 12 in the spring of 2002.Robert Marcel Lepage's Tout Autour Du FrontPortrait Montréal, pays homage to the richness of MontréalDiversion is the second album from Noma, an ensemble formed and directed by trombonist Tom Walsh. It was recorded live at La Sala Rossa in December 2002 and at the Music Gallery in Toronto in 2000.Ambiances Magnétiques, introduces Guido Del Fabbro as a solo artist. Carré de sable is a mixture of sound environments and instrumental pieces combining composition and multitracked improvisation.Led by Philippe Lauzier and Alexandre Grogg, Ensemble en pièces is an inventive jazz quintet with a velvety yet jagged sound.Unison Rituals by Tim Brady features five highly original chamber works for saxophone and ensemble which point to the increasing trend among new music ensembles to play music coming from a wide range of performance traditions, bridging the gap between musique actuelle and contemporary chamber works.Dense layers of cascading horns; sticky, twisted beats; lush melodies; Conflits is a new mutation in the ever changing hip hop organism.Vitaminsforyou lays down his understated way of building a pop song. From his shy processed voice to his makeshift beats, simple keyboard chords, and sketchy melodies, everything has the home-brewed quality of bedroom electronica.Electronic artist, Ghislain Poirier’s Sous le manguier might seem lavish, but ten seconds into the album’s opener, L’hiver neige, and it’s impossible not to be struggling to find appropriate descriptors.Deadbeat is the alias Scott Montieth has adopted for Primordia, his dub-inspired electronic release for Intr_Version.Hope That Lines Don’t Cross marks the first official solo release by Mitchell Akiyama and will undoubtedly establish him as an important electronica artist.2nd album from the duo consisting of Mitchell Akiyama & Joshua Treble.Influenced by artists as diverse as Lamonte Young, Terry Riley, Neil Young and Dirty Three, their [The Beans] epic instrumental compositions are as breathtakingly beautiful as they are imaginative and intricate.Désormais is Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble. Akiyama has released works on Substractif and his own intr_version imprint. Treble has released on the Pitch Cadet label. Together they create highly textured ambient noise recordings.
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