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Robert Normandeau's third solo album, Figures.Sondes by Randall Smith brings us four years in the life of this versatile composer, condensed into an earjam of seventy-five minutesFrancis Dhomont's Jalons (Milestones) surveys a musical landscape that extends over a space of fifteen years.Christian Bouchard moves fluidly between lush spacious environments and agitated, rough, edgy punctuations. By doing so, he makes an alliance with soundscape composition, glitch, and acousmatic art. - Darren Copeland, WholenoteThis disc is more than a collection of short pieces; it presents a synthesis of new electroaccoustic creation as it is practised in all its forms. - Jean-François Denis & Claude SchryerForêt profonde (Deep Forest) is an acousmatic melodrama by Francis Dhomont, based on Bruno Bettelheim's essay "The Uses of Enchantment".Dan Lander is mischievous with his tools; you can hear him grin at several points throughout these recordings. His writing has a sense of play and naturalness that one rarely hears. These are works 'sans woosh', bare, sometimes painful and always passionate, as in works with intelligence, precision and guts.Darren Copeland's first solo album as a composer.Ned Bouhalassa is a studio composer specializing in acousmatic works. His teachers included Kevin Austin and Francis Dhomont. Attracted by cinema, contemporary visual art and science fiction, he tries in his work to balance form and content, while leaving room for emotion and poetry.