On December 4, 2008, Bertrand Denzler and his saxophone quartet, featuring Marc Baron, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Stéphane Rives will be performing at the Festival Total Meeting in Tours (France).

After a huge success at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival last summer, the Ratchet Orchestra will be in concert at the Jewish General Hospital in Montréal on December 1, 2008. The orchestra, who just released its first recording, features double bassist Nicolas Caloia as well as thirty of Montréal’s finest improvisers. Not to be missed!

The 7th edition of the Rencontres de musiques spontanées will take place on November 27 and 28, 2008 at Paradis in Rimouski (Québec). The programme will include Éric Normand’s Musique de Bataille (featuring musicians Raphaël Arsenault, Isaiah Ceccarelli, James Darling and Catherine S Massicotte), Virgule (with Gordon M Allen and Esther B), the duo of Alexandre Grogg and Isaiah Ceccarelli, as well as Le Grand Groupe Régional d’Improvisation Libre.

Voilà encore un de ces artistes atypiques que seul le Québec semble capable díengendrer. Attiré par les expérimentations les plus biscornues, pouvant amalgamer notamment rock progressif et musique contemporaine, ce guitariste synthétise habilement ses divers penchants esthétiques. Et pour donner corps à ses douces lubies transverses, un orchestre particulier (incluant trompette, sax, marimba) prend part aux hostilités, dérivant généreusement l’auditeur sur des chemins inattendus. Aussi baroque qu’intemporel, le résultat comblera les adeptes de productions exigeantes et ludiques!

The Trepanated Quintet, double bassist Nicolas Caloia’s newest group featuring Jean Derome, Guillaume Dostaler, Kenny Doolittle and Robert Kraft, will be in concert at L’envers in Montréal on November 27, 2008.

The Nicolas Bernier and Simon Trottier duo as well as Pierre-Yves Martel will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday November 25, 2008 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.