Martin Tétreault (turntable) and Diane Labrosse (sampler), who recently released the album Parasites, will play live with japanese artist Haco (voice, electric mandolin) April 25, 2002 at Casa del Popolo (Montréal). Since the 80’s, Haco, a founding member of Hoahio, is a leading figure in alternative music in Japan and frequently plays with Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M and harpist Zeena Parkins.

“… listening to Interférence Sardines it became clear to me that we have a new creative outburst here.” (Vital, The Netherlands) Four years after their first album, Mare Crisium, Québec City based group Interférence sardines offers a new album filled with surprising musical crossbreedings, Zucchini. Intrumental pieces and wild songs, dynamic and varied arrangements, Zucchini will seduce both the curious and the converted.

Six years after L’âme de l’objet, Michel F Côté presents a new album with his Bruire ensemble. Accompanied this time by Jean Derome (saxophone), Martin Tétreault (turntables) and Normand Guilbeault (double bass), the prolific percussionist gives on Chants rupestres 15 rough and spellbinding compositions, like the virgin landscapes our first ancestors had to face. Launched with an unforgettable show during the SuperBOOM events at La Chapelle, this limited edition is sold with unique hand-made cover art!

After the success of their last CD together, Île bizarre (with percussionist Ikue Mori), Diane Labrosse (sampler) and Martin Tétreault (turntable), offers us Parasites, where electronic noises and concretes sounds meets and fights to form yet unheard-of textures. This new CD was launched during a SuperBOOM concert at La Chapelle last November, just returning from a series of concerts in Europe (particularly at the Strasbourg museum of modern arts and at the Instants chavirés). Disquieting, dense and disturbing, Parasites will fulfill every abstract music lover’s desire.

“A rushing brutal liberation from language and cadence…” (The Wire, UK) In the 80’s, Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger sprung out of the Quebec musical landscape and seduced the world with their vitality, ardour and originality. One of the first Ambiances Magnétiques productions, the lp Les contes de l’amère loi (Tales of a Bitter Law) was out of print for more than a decade. This CD reissue is a wonderful occasion to discover again the work of these three women who help built, as musicians and producers, new music in Québec.