Ambiances Magnétiques

Even though name Ambiances Magnétiques is mainly known for (and regarded as) the Montreal experimental music record label, gleam specific artists’ collective which preceded it. This nucleus of music artists has built what’s now referred to as the Montreal experimental music picture. It all were only available in 1982 when guitarist René Lussier and saxophonist/flutist Jean Derome offered several duo concerts in Montreal beneath the name Ambiances Magnétiques (which means “Magnetic Atmospheres”). They teamed up with guitarist André Duchesne and clarinetist Robert Marcel Lepage and released the label Ambiances Magnétiques in 1983, an entity handled by the users from the collective release a their information, with periodic guests usually having some kind of link with the nucleus (until the past due ’90s, when the label began to broaden its horizons). In 1986, the group was prolonged to add Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, and Danielle P. Roger, three hard-working music artists performing together in a variety of avant-pop girl organizations (Wondeur Brass, Justine). Hétu would quickly be left responsible for the label itself. Radio DJ and drummer Michel F. Côté was enlisted in 1988, and lastly turntablist/record manipulator Martin Tétreault (found out unintentionally as he was overheard by his unsuspecting neighbor, André Duchesne, in the past due ’80s) officially became a member of in the middle-’90s. The collective just performed once or twice as an organization, an event recorded around the 1992 Compact disc Une Théorie des Ensembles. They function more being a pool of music artists and a cooperative, and been successful in creating their very own underground network to aid an experimental picture. This consists of the record label, but also Distributions Ambiances Magnétiques Etc. (DAME), a distribution shop, and production businesses such as for example Productions SuperMémé, which orchestrates concert series and occasions in Montreal. By past due 2000, the label got 90 game titles under its belt and everything Ambiances Magnétiques people got become keystones in the introduction of challenging music in Canada.