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Perhaps one of the most visible statistics of Montreal’s musique actuelle picture, saxophonist and composer Jean Derome can be among the instigators from the music community represented from the Ambiances Magnétiques label he co-founded. The actual fact that he’s a graduate of the faculty of Pataphysics and was the receiver …

A Montreal native, where he’s still based, guitarist Bernard Falaise exploded on the brand new music picture in the later ’90s, appearing in lots of Ambiances Magnétiques-related outfits, specifically in avant rock-oriented groupings that included drummer Rémi Leclerc (Miriodor, Les Projectionnistes, Papa Boa). He’s also energetic on the free of …

Come up with by Montreal guitarist André Duchesne, Les 4 Guitaristes de l’Apocalypso-Bar was a conceptual guitar quartet (as well as drums), something seldom noticed before. His longest-lasting task (four years), it had been also one that got probably the most worldwide attention, because of the current presence of ex-Henry …

In the mid-’90s, Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms was Montreal saxophonist Jean Derome’s perfect task. The group released three albums from 1994 to 1998. Although actions later slowed up, the group continuing to perform all over the world; in the Ambiances Magnétiques roster it stood as the utmost popular …

Led by guitarist Philippe Venne and dominated with the exuberant drummer Frédéric Lebrasseur, the Quebec City group Interférence Sardines places up for grabs an up to date version from the Rock and roll in Opposition sound. They consider their cue from Henry Cow, but also from Central-European folk and rock …

The users of Montreal-based avant quartet Rouge Ciel may be comparatively youthful faces on that city’s experimental and songs scene, however they seem keenly alert to their earliest antecedents in musique actuelle, sketching on influences that time back over 30 years. Yet they aren’t simple throwbacks to a youthful period …