“To interpret a place, to inhabit a space…Décor sonore is the meeting of music with the sounds that fill our daily lives. A sonic window that opens on a place, a moment. It’s a collection of short stories as true-to-life as they are fantastic. This is...

"Fall 2005: While on a tour of France, Marie-Soleil Bélanger (who compulsively loves water) and Normand Guilbeault (a salt fan) had the chance to visit Guérande (Britanny) and its salt marsh. The two musicians were presented with a strange landscape...

"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. Berthiaume is no newcomer to this genre, since Rodéoscopique dabbed in it too. This...

"Idiolalla is actually a vocal illness, a made-up language infection. DB Boyko and Christine Duncan are turning gibberish into improvised poetry, while Jean Martin accompanies them by hitting multi-timbered objects. These three virtuosos have delivered...

Guitarist Tim has been releasing pretty cool CDs in Canada for about 20 years, but we never were able to stock any of his stuff, so I am very happy to see this release come out!

"Guitar player and composer already well known for his works for...

Percussionist/electronic worker M. F. Ct performs pieces based upon improvisation. This has guests Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Robert Lepage, Ren Lussier, & Ikue Mori. [Ambiances Magnetiques]

Duo acoustic/electric guitar non-idiomatic free improvisations with some nice preparations that give a different, percussive sound to the free-flow of ideas. [Ambiances Magnetiques]

"Inspired by jazz standards, Pierre Cartier tackles the theme of love. With all the lyricism such a quest deserves, he combines the voice of Quebec’s poets with the energy of new jazz."

"These compositions were inspired by numerous voyages in the French Alps and the Pyrenees. Several titles are the result of personal research into Savoyard and Occitan after having met the dialectologist Hubert Bessat who co-authored, with Claudette...

"During a ten days residence in Rimouski (Québec), the artists made documentary sounds recordings: interviews and soundscapes. They listen to the sounds heard along the St Lawrence River, underwater, and to the voices of peoples living around. Based on...

Cote with Jean Derome, Normand Guilbeault & Martin Tetrault. "A quartet born of hair-covered brawn & primeval sinew. Casting our thinking about music back 100,000 years, perhaps to it's very birth, to those first true pioneering musical experimenters, ...

With Michel F Ct, we never know what to expect! This time, his new project is nothing less than a gunfight at the OK Corral, and no one knows who, between country or actuelle music, will walk away the winnerFlat fourgonnette (Mescal free style) (that ...

The two musicians met in 1996 at one of Butch Morriss conductions and first played together, as a duo, in 1999. These recordings are from 2001. The playing of these two vital Swiss adventurers takes place in the wake of European research into improvisa...

By a 9 piece & is scored music of varying moods for a dance ''spectacle''.

A film soundtrack.

"This album basis of our work is songs and improvisations . Our songs speak of our life. They are ordinary (like us) but not easy going (like her). We really love to improvise together. It is not easy to describe accurately; it is very close to the...

Nathalie sings her songs, backed by synths, Fender Rhodes, guitar & saxophone.

Richly textured multiphonic vocal virtuosity, laced with rasps, rumbles, honks, howls, and wheezes, featured in freely improvised and formally structured solos, with flights of verbal invention added into the mixOralizations offers works spanning Paul ...

Something a little different & jazzy, as Jean Derome (reeds), Pierre Cartier (bass), & Pierre Tanguay (drums) tackle the Monk songbook on these two. [Ambiances Magnetiques]

"Fenaison is a group committed to the making of new music that is texturally driven, improvised, exploratory, and boundary crossing. Performing with intuition, ingenuity, and integrity, Fenaison pushes the limits of the anticipated and the accepted...

"For me, the trio is the ideal formation for improvising music. In general, even numbers imply something known, where odd numbers feel open. “2” can create corners that “3” can melt down, transform. “3” is complete, continuous and infinite. Dynamics...

''Their music flows through various structures, modes & traditions.'' Malcolm Goldstein-violin, John Heward-percussion, Ranier Weins-prepared guitar. [Ambiances Magnetiques]

“Tears came to my eyes when I started reading Normand Guilbeault’s transcriptions of tunes like What Love and The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. I guess a pilgrim reaching Mecca for the first time must be experiencing similar feelings, or an art lover...

“Nouvelle musique d’hiver” consists of four movements in which musicians improvise from a canvas and compositional design. - 1. Joyeux temps; evocation of the first snowfalls and the Holiday season - 2. Être dans le vent; a tribute to wind and fire...

One of the most fundamental trio of Quebec's new music, Les Poules are musicians and producers Joane Htu, Danielle Palardy Roger and Diane Labrosse. More than 15 years after their first album, 'Les contes de lamre loi', they have a new full-length for ...