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Portrait Montréal, pays homage to the richness of Montréal
Diversion 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.
My 20th Century CD and DVD is a multimedia extravaganza from composer/guitarist Tim Brady in collaboration with video artists Martin Messier and Oana Suteu.
This chamber opera for voice, electric guitar, piano, percussion, saxophones, string quartet and tape tells the life of doctor Norman Bethune.
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Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms
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
Saturday Morning Empires, Intr_version's first compilation since 2000's.
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.
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.
The four-disc box set Pandore illustrates the diversity found in Jocelyn Robert's sound universe.
This 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.
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, WholenoteGo to Top
