volume 1: La bastringue migratoire
Various artists
La Bastringue Migratoire came at the right time, summarizing the label’s pre-1996 sound. […] the “musique actuelle” neophyte will find it a helpful sampler. — AllMusic, USA
I strongly recommend La bastringue migratoire. — Splendid E-Zine, USA
La Bastringue migratoire is a compilation of sixteen pieces from the independant label Ambiances Magnétiques, featuring, amongst other luminaries, the usual crew of René Lussier, Jean Derome,
Sixty minutes of music, a guided tour of what Québec’s musique actuelle has been in the last twelve years. A mozaic of textures, a sound odyssey folding into an irresistible voyage. You would like to know more, you are curious, you’ve never heard of it, you love it passionately, you are looking for something new, La Bastringue migratoire is what you need. Plus you will get the 1996 catalog of DAME
- Composer(s): Bruire, Michel F Côté, Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms, André Duchesne, Évidence, Les Granules, Joane Hétu, Justine, Diane Labrosse, Robert Marcel Lepage, Geneviève Letarte, René Lussier, Zeena Parkins, Danielle Palardy Roger, Jerry Snell, Tenko, Martin Tétreault
- Graphic design: Fabrizio Gilardino, Anna Morelli
CD (AM 039, 1996)
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- 9Danielle Palardy Roger: L’oreille enflée: La muette (Danielle Palardy Roger / Danielle Palardy Roger) (1991-92), 2:15Marie Ouellet, voice, narration
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- Label: Ambiances Magnétiques
- AM 039
- 1996
- UCC 771028103928
- Total duration: 63:47
- 125 mm × 145 mm × 10 mm
- 70 g
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Review
Review
All four volumes that we describes here, are released in a special cardbord CD-box, with a well documented booklet that gives full information about the artists. All volumes are compilation CD’s that gives access to various sorts of music. It is almost impossible to review each participant to these compilation CD’s. Thanks to the wide variety of music, yet almost every song comes from the same meltingpot of experimental music.
Volume 1, La bastringue migratoire — Brings us most intimate music that goes from poetic folk towards big-city café music & jazz. With in between artistic experiments with musical instruments that creates big jams. The royal use of the instruments clarinet and saxophone, almost present in every song, gives a jazzy-tune to the CD’s.
Review
After 12 years of existence and 39 records produced, the seminal Montréal new music label Ambiances Magnétiques felt the need to release its first compilation album, Volume 1
Review
The compilation disc La bastringue migratoire makes for a good initiation to the Ambiances magnétiques label. About a dozen artists are represented here and, though hard to classify, their music is essentially tropes on a basic theme of “art jazz”. Some approaches are fairly conventional, like Evidence’s interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s Criss Cross, while others, such as Robert Lepage’s comic-strip-inspired clarinet ditty Le sourire de la Joconde, are admittedly bizarre. Some tracks are gentle, as in Michel Côté and Diane Labrosse’s Y tu mirar, while others are brash, like Jerry Snell’s Life in the Suicide Riots. Musical influences present on the disc range from DJ culture in Martin Tétreault’s work, to rock in André Duchesne, to folk music of various cultures sort of sprinkled throughout all the pieces. Poetry is present in the many of the tracks but is particularly central to Genevieve Letarte’s La ragazza. My favorite work is Les Granules’ Le tango qui ne finit jamais — it combines kitsch with music-craft in a way that is at once sinister and charming. If you haven’t had the pleasure of aurally ogling anything from Ambiances magnétiques, I strongly recommend La bastringue migratoire.
Kritik
Terres de feu
Recensione
Una valida introduzione alla scena sperimental-creativa (passata e presente) di Montréal ci è dato dal sampler dell’etichetta Ambiances Magnétiques (distr. Megatalogo) La bastringue migratoire — vol. 1, in particolarissima confezione sagomata e con booklet ricco di note
Critique
Dirigée par Joane Hétu depuis sa création en 1989, la maison de disques DAME — plus de 50 albums en catalogue — n’a pas changé d’un iota sa mission et ses objectifs
Et voici qu’en juin dernier, pour ouvrir la porte au grand public, DAME lançait sa première compilation, son premier catalogue sonore, Ambiances Magnétiques —La bastringue migratoire voL 1. On y retrouve des musiques puisses à même le répertoire discographique de l’étiquette indépendante Ambiances Magnétiques.
Cette compilation, où 16 œuvres sélectionnéss avec soin se côtoient, nous présente des musiciens et compositeurs tels que Michel F Côté, Jean Derome, André Duchesne, Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Robert Marcel Lepage, René Lussier ou Danielle Palardy Roger. Ces artistes, qui explorent des musiques issues de courants présents (folklore, rock, free jazz, musique contemporaine, chanson, bruitisme, ordinateur, etc. ), poursuivent leur rêve
Alors, si votre énergie compositrice puise ses forces dans la musique actuelle et de recherche, ou si vos oreilles rêvent d’expériences et de découvertes extra-radiophoniques, vous êtes mûrs pour faire la rencontre de ces inclassables de la musique.
Disques
Soyez vigilants, restez vivants
Ces œuvres de bravoure sont celles de compositeurs comme René Lussier, Geneviève Letarte, Jerry Snell, André Duchesne et Jean Derome, des créateurs qui offrent
Au-delà de la qualité du produit.
Disques
Ceux qui craignent encore de s’aventurer du côté de la musique actuelle n’ont plus d’excuses
À écouter plus qu’à entendre
More texts
- JB, emoRAGEi, no. 4, June 1, 1998
- Le Musicien québécois, no. 8:5, September 1, 1996






