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Misc: Partager l'ambulance

by Gareth Thompson
April 9, 2021

Montreal piano-led trio Misc use their album title and artwork here to reflect on a post-Covid world. The title translates as “Sharing The Ambulance" and the cover is like an apocalyptic cartoon, showing a disused hospital truck furnished with hi-fi and easy chair floating in the sky. It could be a still from any Studio Ghibli film and thus appropriate to an album which soundtracks its own dreamlike drama. At the 2018 Montreal Jazz Festival, the group interpreted ...