In Montréal on January 20, 2004, Éditions Artextes launched S:on, Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art, an anthology compiled by Nicole Gingras. Amongst the artists represented on this publication we find Pierre-André Arcand, Georges Azzaria, Steve Heimbecker, Hugh Le Caine, Christof Migone, Hélène Prévost, Jocelyn Robert, R Murray Schafer, Michael Snow, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, and Hildegard Westerkamp.

Please note that our offices will close from December 22 to 28, 2003. All online orders will be processed and confirmed on Monday December 29. Everyone at actuellecd.com & electrocd.com wish you a merry and peaceful holidays season!

Canadian label Spool Music is mainly devoted to free improvisation and hybrid instrumentations. Their catalog is now yours to discover on actuellecd.com. With titles by Fred Frith, Joëlle Léandre, Jonathan Segel, Dylan Van der Schyff, The Peggy Lee Band or the NOW Orchestra and many more!

DAME have a generous holiday rebate for you. When you buy one CD on the actuellecd.com website, you get a 10% rebate. Buy two and get 20%. Buy three and get 30%. But it’s not finished yet! Buy four CDs or more and you get a free CD — and you still have 30% off! 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 10, 2004.

Sautons ce repas de midi is the new album by Frank Martel et L’Ouest céleste and it will be oficially launched November 11, 2003. With the help of Bernard Falaise (guitar), Eloi Deit (bass) and Michel F Côté (drums), Frank Martel made 14 great new songs, a perfect sequel to his first album, “Enjambons le désert.”

Almost every album by UK guitarist Fred Frith is now available on actuellecd.com. Classic ReR re-issues such as Guitar Solos or Gravity, as much as esemble works Keep the Dog: That House We Lived In (with Lussier, Parkins, Ostertag, and Derome) and Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (featuring Mori, Parkins, Cutler, Derome, Lussier, and Martignoni).