Côté, Falaise, St-Onge

Infininiment

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1 juillet 2010
Par Ken Waxman in The WholeNote #15:10 (Canada), 1 juillet 2010

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«Throughout the 13 minimalist tunes the horns extend or amplify improvisations from the band’s core trio»

Although the romantic image of a lone trumpeter has been standard in jazz since the time of Young Man with a Horn, musically it’s actually more difficult for a trumpet to be sole horn in a band — at least until freely improvised music rewrote the rules a few decades ago. The reason is simple: unlike the saxophone’s many keys which the soloist can manipulate for different timbres, the trumpet has only three valves and a length of tubing. Brass players thus most often work with a reed partner or as part of an ensemble. However these CDs, featuring mostly Canadian casts, show that notable sessions can appear no matter the instrumental make up. (…)

Ex-Torontonian, now Montrealer, trumpeter Gordon Allen plus saxophonists Jean Derome and Philippe Lauzier take an equally standard role as backing horn section on Montréal band Klaxon Gueule’s Infininiment Ambiances Magnétiques AM 194 CD. Throughout the 13 minimalist tunes the horns extend or amplify improvisations from the band’s core trio — guitarist Bernard Falaise, bassist Alexandre St-Onge and percussionist Michel F Côté. Concerned as much with mood and texture as melody, the scene-setting arrangements frequently find single horn parts providing brief commentary on Falaise’s popping guitar licks, St-Onge’s pulsating rhythms or the knitting-needle-like clatter of Côté’s delicate drumming. The bass line serves as a pedal point drone on Momo pèle, for instance, which fades away following dissociated drum beats, but not before Allen has pumped out bugle-like reveille. In contrast singular note extensions from one saxophone plus chromatic mellow timbres from the trumpeter inflate from distanced peeps to provide a counterweight to dissonant guitar-string snaps and abrasive strums on Brown suinte. (…)

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1 avril 2010
Par Vincenzo Giorgio in Wonderous Stories #17 (Italie), 1 avril 2010

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Infininiment dopo cinque anni segna il ritorno del grande trio canadese (Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise e Alexandre St-Onge) dopo i fasti del seminale Chicken. Côté & Co. abbandonano l’indifferenziato flusso sonoro dell’opera precedente a favore di strutture più riconoscibili dove l’elettronica continua a giocare un ruolo importante affiancandosi, però, ad una strumentazione più spiccatamente e “riconoscibilmente” acustica. Mi riferisco soprattutto alla componente fiatistica rappresentata da tre ospiti illustri: Gordon Allen e i già pluricitati Jean Derome e Philippe Lauzier. Barbe de seuil (nella sua inesorabile lentezza), Fibreux tate (frastagliata e sghemba in cui spicca l’acustica di Falaise) e la malmostosa Gruge mou le perle più abbaglianti.

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15 mars 2010
Par Dolf Mulder in Vital #722 (Pays-Bas), 15 mars 2010

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«It is very rewarding and enjoyable to listen to all short movements and actions by the different players, and to experience how they intertwine into a strong nucleus of linear moving music.»

I’m always especially curious after new releases by Michel F Côté. He is a very interesting musician who deserves a much broader attention if you ask me. For instance for his fantastic Klaxon Gueule. This is Michel F Côté (drums, percussion), Bernard Falaise (guitar) and Alexandre St-Onge (bass). They started in 1995, and with Infininiment they are ready for their fifth statement after a silence of 5-year silence. Helped out by Gordon Allen, Jean Derome and Philippe Lauzier. It is not necessary to introduce the three core members as they are very profiled artists, all of them involved in numerous other musical projects. Klaxon Gueule combines these extraordinary talents who are very equipped to interpret Côté’s bizarre musical visions. In a very abstract manner his music stays linked with rock, and more explicit it shows relations with improvised music. It is very rewarding and enjoyable to listen to all short movements and actions by the different players, and to experience how they intertwine into a strong nucleus of linear moving music.

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1 mars 2010
Par Stefano I Bianchi in Blow Up #142 (Italie), 1 mars 2010

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1 mars 2010
Par Marc Medwin in Signal to Noise #57 (ÉU), 1 mars 2010

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16 janvier 2010
in Where’d All My Friends Go? (ÉU), 16 janvier 2010

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«A stimulating exercise in free-improvisation.»

Klaxon Gueule (translated, “Horn Scream”) is a Montréal group featuring three top tier players of the improv arena, Michel F Côté (percussion), Bernard Falaise (guitar), and Alexandre St-Onge (bass), who put aside very successful careers (solo and otherwise) every few years for a Klaxon Gueule release — some of the strongest records in the Ambiances Magnétiques catalog. Following an exciting 1997 debut (Bavards) the group shifted away from energetic free-improvisation to a tense electro-acoustic style of ominous improvisation characterized by the use of heavily manipulated instrumentation. Klaxon Gueule, armed with instruments almost entirely non-manipulated, make a bit of a return to its previous inclinations with Infininiment, inviting in a reeds section, including Jean Derome, Gordon Allen, and Philippe Lauzier, to back them. The thirteen tracks presented here are less energetic than the group was back in 1997, but this disc is probably better realized than was Bavards. The music here moves fluidly over very uneven terrain at speeds necessitated by the territory, squirming over, around and, at times, even through the particular landscape. Derome, Allen, and Lauzier enter the mix sparingly, reacting in accord with the core trio to fill in sparse areas here and there. A stimulating exercise in free-improvisation.

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