As a radio man from way back, drummer/composer/alchemist Michel F Côté knows how scraps and fragments of sound-overheard conversations, old blues and country songs-can rattle around inside the brain. Thing is, though, that the memories never come out the same as they originally went in. Flat Fourgonnette gives musical form to this notion, as Côté and his musicians-a potpourri of the folks around the Ambiances Magnétiques tribe-playfully blend bits and pieces of old songs (Hank Williams, Billie Holliday, Mississippi John Hurt) with their own musical ideas and memories into a kind of spaghetti western soundtrack. It’s warm and romantic and a little bit subversive all at once.

As part of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, you are invited to a performance featuring digital painter Jean Detheux and composer Jean Derome (saxophones, flutes, various wind instruments). This is a unique chance to take part to a fascinating improvised dialogue. With the participation of Joane Hétu (saxophone, voice) and Pierre Tanguay (percussions). This event is preceded at 5 pm by Jean Detheux’s workshop “Vers Liaisons et Ruptures.” This is happening Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 8 pm at the Temple du Musée Juste pour rire.

The Vancouver New Music Festival produces Interférence: statique x-statique / static x-static and presents, on Wednesday Octobre 19, 2005, Fred Frith, Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay. And on Thursday October 20, it’s Diane Labrosse, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and The Unexpected. Then, on Friday October 21, the festival presents Joane Hétu, Magali Babin and Klaxon Gueule. Finally, on Saturday October 22, morceaux_de_machines will be making their first Vancouver appearance at the festival.

DAME is proud to launch Collection QB’s second release, Steve Reich: Different Trains, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Bozzini Quartet. A major work of the Steve Reich corpus, Different Trains (1988) announced a new compositional method, taking its source from his previous tape works It’s Gonna Rain (1965), and Come Out (1966).

Different Trains est le 2^e enregistrement de cette œuvre depuis 1988, initialement interprétée par le Kronos Quartet. Cette suite de Reich relate ses voyages en train en Amérique en parallèle avec les allers simples des juifs vers les camps de la mort. Cette pièce pour quatuor à cordes jouée simultanément avec trois autres quatuors enregistrés et bande suit le rythme de la mélancolie du voyage et des textes récités. Très belle interprétation d’une œuvre profonde et saisissante. …La musique suit en parallèle les textes récités. 9