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Joëlle Léandre waving her bow around can be a beautiful thing
French improv bassist
She arrived late, hair wild and dress scruffy black, peered callously into the audience and picked up her instrument. Waiting for her on stage were local musique-actuelle fixtures
The process would be familiar to most improvisers
What distinguished last night’s group was how varied and refined the sounds were.
People have strong feelings about this kind of improvised music (my brother, for example, calls it ‘public wanking’). Some say it’s intimidating because it’s so experimental, but I reckon that it’s because it is just so experimental that anybody can listen to it. You don’t need any background knowledge
Review
Le GGRIL is centered in Québec, Canada and walks a tightrope between the improvised and the structured. The band’s arsenal of imaginative players borrow as much from post-classical as from free jazz. Their personnel is changeable but the unusual assortment of saxes, clarinet, accordions, violins, guitar and percussion seems to be the norm. The free self titled album has four tracks. Tracks 1, 2, 4 are directed by alto saxophonist
The same can be said for track 3 which is an extended 11 minute work featuring the improvisatory trio of
The album is available from the excellent Insubordinations netlabel in 320kbps MP3.
Traquen’Art pour Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms
On ne compte plus les concerts produits par l’organisme montréalais Traquen’Art au fil des années, aussi bien du côté des musiques du monde — par sa maison de production parallèle Crosscurrent Musics — que du jazz contemporain et de la musique actuelle. Impliqué dans l’aventure depuis les tout premiers débuts — il a participé à la tournée de
Derome et du souffle
Afin de souligner la Journée internationale de la musique et à l’invitation du Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM), Voir a adopté, cette année,
Multiinstrumentiste débridé, jazzman virtuose, compositeur actualiste et champion de l’impro sans filet,
En 1982, il fondait avec
La série des
Biography
Quebec’s circusy big band
Horn of Plenty
