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Brûlez les Meubles: Folio #5

by Glenn Astarita
Brûlez les Meubles (burn the furniture), a Québec-based avant-jazz duo, consists of guitarist Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière from Montreal and electric bassist Éric Normand from Rimouski. Formed out of a shared passion for experimental improvisation and contemporary jazz, the pair has cultivated a distinctive sound over the years. Since their debut in 2016, they have released a series of albums that blend abstract meditation, and gradual ascension with modern simplicity, often collaborating with notable improvisers. Folio #5, ...
Continue ReadingMarianne Trudel: La vie commence ici

by Tyran Grillo
Pianist and composer Marianne Trudel may not be so well known outside her native Canada, but her elegantly crafted sound, as all good music does, carries its own passport and travels where it will. La vie commence ici is Trudel's sixth album as leader and immerses her within the sympathetic vibrations of trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, saxophonist Jonathan Steward, bassist Morgan Moore, and drummer Robbie Kuster. Trudel and Jensen share the deepest rapport of this particular session, and so it is ...
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