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Rendezvous: Another Round Please
by Jeff Winbush
All instrumental music is not jazz and some might argue electronica isn't music at all as much as it is the ultimate triumph of machine over man. To be certain, much of electronica, trance, house and trip-hop is little more than synthesized beeps, bleeps and burps over a drum track as it whizzes by your ears leaving little to no lasting impression.Rendezvous is a little bit more enterprising than your ordinary techno band. Itai Simon and Hagai Izenberg ...
read moreBell Orchestre: Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light
by John Kelman
When the Montreal-based Bell Orchestre recently performed at Montreal's Plaza Theatre, it not only brought together unlikely instrumental bedfellows, but also made cerebral music that was equally appealing on an instinctive level--sometimes in the strangest of ways. Playing material from their debut record, Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light, these musicians also tapped a youth market that's not driven solely by the greater pop music industry machine.
Bell Orchestre makes music that's expansive in sound, singable in melody, ...
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