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Saxophonist, vocalist, improviser, composer, and record label supervisor Joane Hétu rates among the pillars from the Montreal avant-garde music picture revolving round the collective Ambiances Magnétiques. A little but very persistent woman, she produced a profession for herself getting started of nowhere at age group 19, to become effective businesswoman …

Montréal trombonist, composer, and bandleader Claude St-Jean was primarily known as the first choice of rollicking option brass music group L’Orkestre des Pas Perdus when he shaped Les Projectionnistes in 1996. A harder-edged ensemble that maintained L’Orkestre des Pas Perdus’ propulsive momentum and unforgettable graphs, Les Projectionnistes added a dosage …

Quebec’s circusy big music group Fanfare Pourpour possess their roots in several music and artistic groupings dating back again to the mid-’70s through the first ’80s, including L’Enfant Fort, a Saturday-afternoon Montreal road music group; the Pouet Pouet Band, which included theatrical and cabaret components into their combine; and Montréal …

A core person in the past due-’70s avant-folk collective Conventum and co-founder from the “musique actuelle” collective and record label Ambiances Magnétiques in the first ’80s, André Duchesne continues to be both quieter and louder than his acolytes. Quieter because he released albums on the rate of the trickle; louder …

An extremely quiet man, nearly the stereotype from the effaced bassist, Pierre Cartier has non-etheless left his tag on many information simply by Montreal artists, specifically members from the Ambiances Magnétiques family members. Nurturing passions in both traditional music and avant-garde jazz, he is rolling out an extremely personal design …

Ranging in proportions from a sextet to a non-et, this Montreal brass group (whose name roughly means “Lost Guidelines Orchestra”) is focused on having an enjoyable experience without compromising some of its formidable musicianship on the way. Produced by trombonist and composer Claude St-Jean in 1993, the music group also …

By 2017 as well as the discharge of Indication 9, Montreal avant-prog group Miriodor were still carrying the flag they initial hoisted over 30 years earlier among the initial groups over the “rock and roll” side from the Quebec-based musique actuelle formula. At their inception, Miriodor may be viewed as …

The eternal sideman, Montreal-based drummer Rémi Leclerc doesn’t have even an individual to his own name, but he has appeared on countless albums by other artists which range from trad revivalists to avant-proggers. What each of them have as a common factor (except probably Robert Charlebois) is normally imagination: Leclerc …

In the later ’80s and early ’90s, Martin Tétreault was the quietest person in Ambiances Magnétiques, Montreal’s influential songs collective. He was offering unusual turntable collages towards the tasks of his co-workers and released several mind-boggling single albums. When minimal techno and experimental electronica strike the museums on the turn …

Through the entire 1980s & most from the ’90s, René Lussier was the prime mover on Montreal’s songs scene. His acoustic guitar work continues to be in comparison to Fred Frith, with whom he offers frequently toured and documented. Spread between single function, duos, and huge ensemble items, between studio …