“Some Love is the ultimate best album of 2005.” (Blow Up).
”Truly an excellent disc.” (Sands Zine)
”… an irresistible concentrate of tight and urgent rhythms…“ (Onda Rock)

The Italian press is raving about &records’ latest relase, Some Love by Foodsoon — a trio of Alexander MacSween, Bernard Falaise, and Fabrizio Gilardino. Discover a band that has already earned comparisons with Faust, This Heat, Klaxon Gueule, and The Ex.

22 years after his cult album Le temps des bombes, and 5 years after the acoustic snapshots of Polaroïde, André Duchesne is back with Arrêter les machines, a collection of his latest protest songs.

Musique des temps modernes (Modern Times Music) is a new Internet radio entirely dedicated to music from the 20th and 21st centuries. It is probably the first Internet French speaking pay radio focusing only on modern, contempprary, avant-garde and electroacousic music. While French speaking, the programmes are mostly music.

Bozzini Quartet won the Opus Prize in the category “Disc of the Year — modern and contemporary musics” for the CD Portrait Montréal.

Many actuellecd.com artists are nominated for the 9th Opus Prizes, awarded since 1996 by the Conseil québécois de la musique. The concert Palimpseste d’orchestre, revisiting the musics of Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger is nominated for “Concert of the Year — actuelle and electroacoustic musics.” Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 by Tim Brady and Portrait Montréal by the Bozzini Quartet will face-off in the category “Disc of the Year — Modern and contemporary musics.” Canevas «+» by the Ensemble SuperMusique and Estrapade by morceaux_de_machines are both nominated for “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics.” Finally, Mingus Erectus, by the Normand Guilbeault Ensemble is nominated for “Disc of the Year — Jazz and World music.” Winners will be announced on January 22, 2006.

DAME has a generous holiday rebate for you. This time, get a 20% rebate on all titles from our “in house” labels (Ambiances Magnétiques, Ambiances Magnétiques Jazz, Collection QB, Monsieur Fauteux, m’entendez-vous? et DAME) and 10% off every other labels (Les disques Victo, Spool Music, &records and many others) But that’s not all! Buy four CDs or more and you get a free CD! Don’t hesitate anymore! You can now give great and compelling CDs of your favorite new music to all your loved ones! But don’t wait too long, this offer ends January 2, 2006.