Kiya Tabassian playing setar, Pierre-Yves Martel, viola da gamba, and Ziya Tabassian, percussion, will launch Masafat at Le Cagibi café in Montréal on Tuesday March 30, 2010. Audio excerpts are already online!

Grand Europe tour for the duo Sainct Laurens composed by Pierre-Yves Martel and Philippe Lauzier from April 15 to 30, 2010. Do not miss them, they’ll tour seven cities in France, Germany and Norway:

• Paris, at Souffle continu;
• Berlin, at Ausland;
• Lille, at Festival Muzzix;
• Metz, at Librairie Géronimo;
• Bergen, at Ny Musikk
• Oslo, through the series of improvised music Sic!;
• finally in Inderoy at festival Soddjazz.

Moreover, the concert at the Festival Muzzix on April 22, 2010 will be recorded by Radio France for the À l’improviste radio show. You will be able to hear this concert online via the Radio France website!

The duo Sainct Laurens composed of Pierre-Yves Martel and Philippe Lauzier will be in concert at L’envers (Montréal), Friday March 26, 2010.

Rainer Wiens, Jean Derome, Nicolas Caloia, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Pierre-Yves Martel, Joshua Zubot and Gordon M Allen are amongst the many guests at Le Cagibi as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music, then who will celebrate his two years of existence on Tuesday March 16, 2010.

Jason Sharp, Nancy Tobin and Pierre-Yves Martel will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday February 23, 2010 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.

Ellwood Epps from the weekly Montréal Mirror chose Sainct Laurens by Sainct Laurens — with music by Pierre-Yves Martel and Philippe Lauzier — as one of the best discs of 2009. Get it quickly.