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Spirit Reel is a set of variations on an original reel of the same title.Vivianne Cardinal assembled a group of renowned musicians whose improvising and accompanying prowess can't be disputed. Saxophonist Phil Dwyer, trumpeter Steve McDade, drummer Billy Drummond, pianist Brian Buchanan and bassist Jim Vivian each contribute with precision and creativity.The selections on this recording offer a taste of some of the colourful and stylistically diverse types of music that embody the spirit of exploration and eclecticism shared by the opening and closing decades.Thomas Baker, piano and Kye Marshall, cello recorded live November 1996, at Trinity United Church, Uxbridge, Ontario.Twenty-eight composers, from seven countries, have participated in this double CD project, bringing to the international audience a compilation with a diversity of electroacoustic works not usually found in single-artist projects.Présence II is an appropriate title for the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)/Productions Electro Productions (PeP) latest two compact disc set of electroacoustic compositions.A Second Compilation of Works from the Members of the CECTwenty-three composers from around the world, most of whom have never met face to face, have joined together through the good graces of the CEC to prepare a self-funded compilation CD. This like-minded, aesthetically variant group share the historical desire to distribute the fruits of their labors.
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