Faque j’suis dans un party chez un ami quand j’lui dit: «Yo, c’est trop fly ton shuffle mix», pis là y’m’shoot «Yoooooo, c’pas à shuffle, c’est le nouvel album de Rouge Ciel». Pis la ma tête fait genre BBBRRRKK-SSSHHHHAAARR-RRRRRHHHH-SSSSHHKKKK, pis lui yé comme «yyyeeeaaaahhhh» parce qu’y m’a eu avec sa fake compil qui sonne comme si les best orchestres de film de série B et westerns italiens (pense Morricone qui front Goblin) composaient pour m’accompagner lors de mon vol de banque… sur la planète VAMPIRE!
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What a joy to see Montréaler Nicolas Bernier join the roster of Portuguese label Crónica! strings.lines features five interrelated electroacoustic works using recordings of Pierre-Yves Martel on viola da gamba and Chris Bartos on violin. Stretched-out sounds, explosive sounds, nothing static, the music moves a lot — literally and figuratively. Music with deep bewitching resonances. I like a lot.
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L’émission radiophonique éclectique Délire musical (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Québec) annonce aujourd’hui la liste des 50 disques retenus par son équipe pour son émission de fin d’année. Cette liste regroupe 50 titres aussi variés qu’étonnants, dans des genres disparates comme le folk, le post-rock, le rock progressif, la chanson, les musiques du monde, l’électronique et bien plus.
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We suggest you check out prePlexure by John Oswald, the latest addition to our shop.
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This is the third disc from the great but under-recognized Quebec-based progressive band Rouge Ciel. After hearing their first two discs and seeing them live at Guelph, I was excited to receive their new one earlier this week. What I dig about this disc is that it is filled with passion and creativity, not any of that complexity for-its-own-sake stuff. This sounds as if it was recorded in the mid-seventies since they use those vintage keyboards like (Hammond?) organ, electric piano & synth. Mr. Del Fabbro plays some great wah-wah violin on Imbroglio, now there’s a sound we haven’t heard in a long while. Agitato has a most majestic sound with lovely cascading violin & piano swells. A few of the melodies used here have a warm, folky sort of resonance which is most charming. Just when you think you have this band figured out, they head for darker, more turbulent waters. Antimemoire has a great, churning quality that builds to a grand conclusion. Classic progressive music has a mythic quality like a soundtrack for an animated journey that we are swept away by. That’s what we find here. You got to love that central pounding drum on Bryologie, a strong blend of eastern and other progressive elements. There is no singing on this disc for those who need to know and it is delightful gem throughout, like a long lost treasure from the olden days (of the seventies). I would hope that Michel Levasseur from the Victo Fest would be wise enough to book this great quartet for a future fest. Both Rouge Ciel and Victo are from the very same province — Québec.
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