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l'Oumigmag: Ce Qui Tourne Dans L'Air

Read "Ce Qui Tourne Dans L'Air" reviewed by David Bruggink

by David Bruggink
August 2, 2025

"Oumigmag" means “muskox" in Inuktitut, one of the principal Inuit languages spoken in Canada's northeast and central northern provinces. Sébastien Sauvageau, a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Québec, drew on his province's musical and Indigenous histories to create the jazz-folk project l'Oumigmag--an effort, he writes, to explore “how past elements (traditional music), present experiences, and future ...

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Habitant

By Sébastien Sauvageau

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Pied-de-vent; Maison jaune; Tissages; Fléché; L’estran; La pêcheuse; Champ d’étoiles; Ajour(s); Bellechasse; Pied-de-vent; Écorces; Résonances; Migrations; Corne de brume.

Article: Album Review

l'Oumigmag: Habitant

by Matt Hooke
October 10, 2019

L'Oumigmag's Habitant is an ambitious reimagining of traditional Quebecois folk, based on the environment and natural beauty of the area around the St. Lawrence River. It has a feeling of comfort that is often reminiscent of a friendly bluegrass jam. Habitant is a reference to the first French settlers of the St. Lawrence River. ...