Michel F Côté who doesn’t need to be presented will launch his newest album (juste) Claudette on October 15, 2007 at Cheval blanc in Montréal. The day after, on October 16, the trio Fenaison will launch its Plat of free structures and contemporary sonorities, at same place.

The Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay is in concert every Wednesday and Thursday of October 2007 at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill in Montréal. Next dates: October 17-18, 24-25 and 31.

The Bozzini Quartet is starting its new season with an important event: the CD launch of Canons + Hoquets on Octobre 20, 2007 at Tanna Schulich Hall of McGill University. This will also be the first Montréaler concert of the ensemble for 2007-08. This new project gives voice to two contemporary artists, each strong and distinct, with Howard Skempton’s expansive canons, and Jo Kondo’s continuous hockets.

Le guitariste et compositeur Antoine Berthiaume a sorti son banjo et sa «cigar box guitar» et a rameuté quelques copains pour explorer les vastes plaines d’un univers country-folk onirique dans lequel Willie Lamothe n’aurait aucune chance de retrouver son cheval. Ça tombe bien, ses copains sont, comme lui, assez ouverts d’esprit, et pour le moins polyvalents. On les a vus, entre autres, avec Lhasa de Sela (Mélanie Auclair, violoncelle et quavaquino), avec le Quintette Mont-Royal (Pierre-Yves Martel, contrebasse), le Spin Ensemble (Philippe Lauzier, sax et clarinette), la Fanfare Pourpour (Guido Del Fabbro, violon) le Bell Orchestre ou [iks] (Stefan Schneider, batterie). Un beau mélange qui n’est pas très roots, mais qui réinvente la nostalgie. Rodéoscopique: le 7 octobre, 20h, au Verre bouteille — précédé de Geneviève Bilodeau.

Pop explodes the avant-garde, and vice versa: both terms are rendered useless by the end of this spectacular album from the deep murk. Violinist and electronic tweaker Del Fabbro, recruited from the musique actuelle scene by Pierre Lapointe for his bestselling Forêt des mal aimés, returns the favour by bringing pop friends (including Lapointe bandleader Philippe Brault on doublebass) to join a tentet including Jean Derome (flyé flutes), Luzio Altobelli (accordion), Sheila Hannigan (corrosive cello), Pierre Tanguay (percussion, tools) in this densely textured project. Agrégat’s tightly structured tunes ooze melodramatic film noir music wallowing in shadows, circus music escaping its cage, fright night at the children’s hour, and twisted fanfares. Not a genteel note is to be found, but panache galore informs this sonically superb in-your-face production. (5/5)

On Thursday October 4, 2007, Pierre-André Arcand will present an audio performance inspired by Micheline Durocher’s Les petites leçons de lectures n^o 14 work. This event is part of La collection 2 series at La Chambre blanche in Québec City.