The CD launch of Bridge by Lori Freedman is planned for next week on “happy hour” Thursday December 3, 2009 at Casa del Popolo (Montréal). Audio excerpts are already online!

Nozen, Damián Nisenson’s quartet featuring Bernard Falaise, Jean Félix Mailloux and Isaiah Ceccarelli, will be in concert at la Casa del Popolo in Montréal on December 2, 2009.

Don’t miss this performance with Klaxon Gueule (Gordon M Allen, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F Côté), Winds (Gordon M Allen, Philippe Lauzier) and Vulgarités (Isaiah Ceccarelli, Michel F Côté) that will take place on Sunday November 22, 2009 at Casa del Popolo in Montréal.

Lê Quan Ninh, Joshua Zubot and Gordon M Allen will be at Le Cagibi as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music on Tuesday November 24, 2009.

Klaxon Gueule, a band that makes few albums but carries on and keeps on renewing itself. On Infininiment (no, it’s not a typo), the core trio — Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise, Alexandre St-Onge — is joined by three guests: Gordon Allen, Jean Derome, and Philippe Lauzier. The group is still playing free improvisation sitting between the acoustic and the electronic, between sound and noise, between hard and soft. More soft than hard, actually, especially early on this CD, where the sonic matter feels like plastic left too close to the heater. Strange image? Possibly. Still, an intriguing record, almost captivating even. I’ll have to get back to it. A second listen is mandatory.

What do you get when you lock up two creative geniuses in a cabin for a couple days with a viola da gamba, saxophones, a bass clarinet, some radios and two-inch speakers? A beautiful and weird sudoku puzzle for the psyche. This CD shows us how these guys give Montréal a well-deserved rep around the globe as a locus for creative music. The only thing better is hearing them live. (9/10)