All Is Bright, But It Is Not Day in Le Devoir
Pour les amateurs de musique actuelle, cette combinaison de musiciens possède les attributs nécessaires pour convaincre sans la moindre hésitation
Pour les amateurs de musique actuelle, cette combinaison de musiciens possède les attributs nécessaires pour convaincre sans la moindre hésitation
Lâchée lousse, littéralement. C’est vraiment l’image qui vient en tête en écoutant ce premier enregistrement de
Le guitariste et compositeur
Compositrice de talent,
Late last year, the thriving Québécois alternative indie label Ambiances Magnétiques put out no less than seven new tides. In the decade since the creation of its parent distribution company DAME, this label has tripled its catalogue, from the modest 24 issued in its first nine years on the market to an even 100 as of the New Year. Generally knawn under the heading of musique actuelle, this label’s aesthetic is as much rooted in the prog rock field of the ’70s and ’80s as it is in a range of eclectic improvisational practices.
From its latest crop, these two discs showcase some of the label’s familiar faces. The first, Polaroïde, is infused by a chamber-music aesthetic. One need not go further than its instrumentation of acoustic guiar, viola and drums/percussion to get the hint. The very disparate backgrounds of the players is worth noting. The leader, guitarist
In spite of this unlikely combination, a meeting of minds does occur over the disc’s 12 tracks. With four tracks bearing the CD title, one could be tempted to all
The second disc, Chants rupestres, is quite a different proposition, because it is essentially programmaric. The titles of the 15 tracks resemble primitive-looking hieroglyphs and are virtually impossible to reproduce here. To quote the short insert blurb, this is “quartet born of haircovered and primeval sinew
Given much of the debate raging these days about reclaiming musics of the past, one has to commend drummer Michel F. Côte for outdoing everybody in that department, yet one has to wonder if there is some sort of underlying irony also at work in this. In this most unusual project of his group “Bruire”, he produces an imaginary primitive music with the help of bassist