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15 juin 1996
Par Mario Cloutier in Le Devoir (Québec), 15 juin 1996

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11 juin 1996
Par François Couture in All-Music Guide (ÉU), 11 juin 1996

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«Ayaya Moses showcases four gifted avant-garde guitarists applying their talent to demanding compositions. Recommended.»

Ayaya Moses is the first CD by the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet. It was recorded in the studios of Radio-Canada in 1996 and captured the quartet at its early stage. The material found here can be split in three categories. First, there are pieces by outsider composers, the Italian Olivia Bignardi and the Québécois Claude Vivier. These contemporary pieces were re-arranged by the quartet and Vivier’s Pulau Dewata works particularly well, developing around a simple melodic structure into a very personal world. The second category is made of contributions from band members. Each guitarist brought one piece. Fred Frith’s Freedom Is Your Friends II is an excerpt from Freedom in Fragments, written for the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, while Nick Didkovsky’s She Closes Her Sister with Heavy Bones is taken from a larger piece for chamber orchestra. They both contrast with Mark Stewart’s textural Trummings. René Lussier’s Ayaya Moses is the strongest piece, written especially for this quartet and making use of all its possibilities. Finally there are a handful of short collective improvisations arranged in suites. More serious and industrious than its follow-up Upbeat, Ayaya Moses showcases four gifted avant-garde guitarists applying their talent to demanding compositions. Recommended.

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1 juin 1996
Par Jim Little in Hour (Québec), 1 juin 1996

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L’Orkestre des pas perdus is a kind of alternative brass (and reeds) band led by trombonist Claude St-Jean, with Jean Sabourin (sousaphone), Ivanhoe Jolicoeur (trumpet and flugelhorn), Paul Richer (tenor sax), Jean-Denis Levasseur (alto sax and piccolo), and Remi Leclerc (drums). All the tunes are by St-Jean, mixing elements of New Orleans jazz, burlesque, musique actuelle, and humour. An example of the latst shows up on the back cover in the three squares that normally indicate whether the recording, mixing, and mastering were analogue (A) or digital (D). Here the code is OPP. Musical highlights include the truckin’ groove of Déménagement, and the olio furnishings of La salle des pas perdus. 3/5

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