The ”Musika, le trio Damian Nisenson + 2” tour (with Jean Félix Mailloux, Damián Nisenson and Pierre Tanguay + Denis Plante and Ziya Tabassian) is on-going this fall:

• November 16, 2007: Maison de la culture Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension
• November 21: Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
• November 23: Centre civique Dollard-des-Ormeaux
• November 29: Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal (Musika à trois)
• December 8: Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles

The next Mercredimusics will host Jean Derome (flutes, saxophones), Malcolm Goldstein (violin) and Martin Tétreault (turntable) on November 7, 2007 at Casa Obscura in Montréal.

Geneviève Letarte and her musicians will be back on stage in November to present Âmes soûles’s pieces. The concerts will take place on:

• November 15, 2007 at Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal
• on November 16 at Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges
• and on November 22 at Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

The folk-western music ensemble Rodéoscopique (formed by Antoine Berthiaume, Philippe Lauzier, Guido Del Fabbro, Mélanie Auclair, Pierre-Yves Martel, and Stefan Schneider) will be at Maison de la culture Frontenac in Montréal on Wednesday November 14, 2007.

Is it possible to have personality and character in electronic music these days? Sure, as I’m sure it will be possible (not just in electronic music) to have both these qualities till this planet won’t be frozen by the next glaciation. After this opening remarking of the fact “everything has been said before” make sense, but it’s not a good reason to sit down and think like you’re ten thousand years old, let’s speak about this cd. A_dontigny mixes many electronic styles with a great and unusual skillfulness and also shows he’s really able both in discerning interesting samples but he’s chosen the right collaborations to enrich this or that passage. I’ve just heard a few releases on this label (and Meta_xu is still one of my personal faves), but I’ve had the impression they’re into electronic music almost at the edge of being experimental for what regards artists work on the tracks. This Canadian musician sometimes cuts the tracks by skiping and using glitches, sometimes he breaks everything fragmenting and manipulating a sample in order to make it workable with the superimposition of a second or even third layer. He’s a “perverted” propension for putting together melodies with unnatural electronic manipulations closer to a dj tradition than “contemporary classic electronic.” While we’re far from one of those wishy-washy Afx Twin clones, I’m sure dear ol’ Richard D James would start nodding having an hard-on with these post-jungle, post-classical, post-electronics, lost in acid, fragmented tracks. I think the fact a composer / musician like Paul Dolden is among the guests of this release says a lot concerning the fact Geisteswissenschaften is filled with songs made with heart and brain and not trying to be part of this or that subgenre of music. Sometimes you have chaotic tracks, sometimes rhythmical irregular tempo changes, sometimes it all sounds like your cd player is skipping randomly stroke by a digital tornado, but in the most of the songs you’ve a solid construction and above all after having survived the first blasts big part of the release approaching toward the end becomes softer an more quiet… almost “easy.”

The GGRIL (homeband of the Tour de Bras collective) is proud to offer you his first (and free) album on Insubordinations Netlabel (Switzerland). The ensemble recorded 4 pieces live with the participation of invited conductors Jean Derome and the trio Les Poules.