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  <name>Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques</name>
  <shortname>Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques</shortname>
  <recording id="am_022" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_022/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/022_AM.gif" />
    <title>Une th&#233;orie des ensembles</title>
    <catno>AM 022</catno>
    <year>1992</year>
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      <code>CD</code>
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    <description>Une th&#233;orie des ensembles, a convivial need, a legitimate happening.
    Essentially, there are two reasons behind this new production: the release of a compact disc
    recorded live (a first for Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques), and the release of a record featuring
    all the members of Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques and their associates. The result: 75 minutes of
    music; 5 groups: Bruire, La Flore Laurentienne, les Granules, Justine and Locomotive; 15
    musicians; and 17 previously unreleased tracks recorded live in February 1992 at the Maison de
    la Culture Frontenac in Montr&#233;al. A thorough delight.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_039" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_039/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/039_AM.gif" />
    <title>volume 1: La bastringue migratoire</title>
    <catno>AM 039</catno>
    <year>1996</year>
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      <code>CD</code>
      <price>12.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>15.00 CA$</realprice>
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    <description>La Bastringue migratoire is a compilation of sixteen pieces from the independant
    label Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques, featuring, amongst other luminaries, the usual crew of
    Ren&#233; Lussier, Jean Derome, Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, Robert Marcel Lepage, Andr&#233;
    Duchesne, Joane H&#233;tu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger. Sixty minutes of music, a
    guided tour of what Qu&#233;bec&#8217;s musique actuelle has been in the last twelve years. A
    mozaic of textures, a sound odyssey folding into an irresistible voyage. You would like to know
    more, you are curious, you&#8217;ve never heard of it, you love it passionately, you are
    looking for something new, La Bastringue migratoire is what you need. Plus you will get the
    1996 catalog of DAME: 28 pages of texts, photos and illustrations.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_045" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_045/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/045_AM.gif" />
    <title>volume 2: Hourra pour la bastringue</title>
    <catno>AM 045</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>12.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>15.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>Hourra pour la bastringue is a compilation of seventeen choice cuts from this
    independent label, featuring, among others, Ren&#233; Lussier, Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay,
    Robert Marcel Lepage, Andr&#233; Duchesne, Joane H&#233;tu and Diane Labrosse. Aural snapshots
    from Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques highlighting releases and reissues from 1995 to 1997. Solos,
    duos, quartets, street bands and large ensembles. Strings, reeds and horns, percussions. More
    than 60 minutes of music &#224; la Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques. A sampler revealing the
    vitality, pertinence and the full significance of Qu&#233;bec&#8217;s musique
    actuelle.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_050" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_050/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/050_AM.gif" />
    <title>volume 3: In&#233;dits</title>
    <catno>AM 050</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>12.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>15.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques &#8212; volume 3, In&#233;dits is, as its name implies
    if you know your French, a anthology of 24 unreleased works by the nine active members of
    Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques: Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, Jean Derome, Andr&#233; Duchesne, Joane
    H&#233;tu, Diane Labrosse, Robert Marcel Lepage, Ren&#233; Lussier, Danielle Palardy Roger and
    Martin T&#233;treault. This third Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques compilation in three years offers
    only new material from projects, radiophonic works, sound experimentations and some stunning
    musical encounters&#8230; The perfect grab-bag to soothe even the most severe fits of
    melomania, as well as an excellent primer to our magnetic musical language.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_070" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_070/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/070_AM.gif" />
    <title>volume 4: Myst&#232;re</title>
    <catno>AM 070</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>12.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>15.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>This endearingly mysterious compilation CD features material released on the
    Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques label between 1997 and 1999. Intricate, varied and playful, this
    singular disc contains 16 little mysteries for you to solve. Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques will no
    longer be a mystery to you!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_085" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_085/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/085_AM.gif" />
    <title>volume 5: Chante! 1985-2000</title>
    <catno>AM 085</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>12.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>15.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>Dating from 1985 to 2000, 18 songs selected from Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques&#8217;
    repertoire. A vibrant reflection of the importance of this label&#8217;s contribution to
    French-Canadian songwriting. A surprising rediscovery!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_014" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_014/">
    <artist>Les 4 Guitaristes de l&#8217;Apocalypso Bar</artist>
    <artistdetail>Duchesne</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/014_AM.gif" />
    <title>Fin de si&#232;cle</title>
    <catno>AM 014</catno>
    <year>1989</year>
    <format>
      <code>LP</code>
      <price>22.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Music by Duchesne, Bouchard, Derome/Lussier, Fradette, Frith, Bartok, and Hollmer,
    performed with gusto.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_010" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_010/">
    <artist>Les 4 Guitaristes de l&#8217;Apocalypso Bar</artist>
    <artistdetail>Duchesne</artistdetail>
    <title>Tourn&#233;e mondiale / &#233;t&#233; 89</title>
    <catno>AM 010</catno>
    <year>1990</year>
    <format>
      <code>LP</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
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  </recording>
  <recording id="am_118" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_118/">
    <artist>Ganesh Anandan, Malcolm Goldstein, Rainer Wiens</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/118_AM.gif" />
    <title>Speaking in Tongues</title>
    <catno>AM 118</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Malcolm Goldstein and Rainer Wiens already have an entry in Ambiances
    Magn&#233;tiques&#8217; catalog with the album Chants cach&#233;s. On this new release,
    Speaking in Tongues, Ganesh Anandan joins them for a trio that is truly one of a kind. These
    musicians combine very different backgrounds, from South Indian percussion to jazz and
    contemporary music. They lock into a lively conversation rich in emotions. Ganesh, Malcolm and
    Rainer share a musical culture and aesthetic that is based on a love of the raw material of
    music: sound. They share a culture that respects traditions but acknowledges that each artist
    has a responsibility to create music that reflects the present-the here and now. It is a
    culture that respects disciplined practice so that they can follow music to areas of exuberant
    excess if that&#8217;s where it leads them. It is a culture that insists they speak with their
    own voice-the sum total of what they&#8217;ve lived, loved and heard. A culture that insists on
    ego serving music and not vice versa.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_173" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_173/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Ganesh Anandan, John Gzowski</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/173_AM.gif" />
    <title>Shruti Project</title>
    <catno>AM 173</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
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      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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    <description>Shruti is a Sanskrit word to denote pitch and interval. A word that also means
    &#8216;that which is heard&#8217; and the smallest intervals of pitch or the spaces between
    notes. The Indian gamut currently has 22 shrutis in an octave. Ganesh Anandan and John Gzowski
    are two musicians from different musical backgrounds with a common passion for original
    tunings. They met in 1996 when John invited Ganesh to play in his microtonal Critical Band at
    The Music Gallery in Toronto, Canada. John works with an array of self designed micro-tonal
    guitars and stringed instruments while Ganesh has been working with self built melodic
    percussion and string instruments based on the Indian Shruti system. In 2006, Ganesh proposed a
    series of structured improvisations using &#8220;original tunings&#8221; from India, Indonesia
    and Contemporary composers. Some specific instruments and scales were chosen: John Gzowski
    plays a recreation of Harry Partch&#8217;s adapted guitar, a ukelin and other self designed
    instruments including a 19-tone equal temperament guitar and the electric dowel. Ganesh plays a
    self designed 12 stringed instrument called shruti stick which is struck, bowed and played with
    fingers. He also plays two sets of tuned metallophones, kanjira, moorching and does
    vocalizations inspired by the sounds of certain Indian languages. Both musicians understand
    improvisation in the context of &#8220;Indian and Western musical styles&#8221;. And using
    these unique instruments their music moves organically from an &#8220;Indian melody with its
    gamaka&#8221; to a &#8220;western style improvised music&#8221;. Each piece has surprises with
    a rich variety of tunings, textures and rhythms played on instruments seldom
    heard.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_138" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_138/">
    <artist>Antenata</artist>
    <artistdetail>Berardi, Cattivelli, Galantino, Meyer, Spera, Zaric</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/138_AM.gif" />
    <title>AnteNata</title>
    <catno>AM 138</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Following Taxonomy and Gianni Lenoci, Dame continues it exploration of new Italian
    music with the release of the album of Antenata. This group approaches songwriting, chamber
    rock, sound poetry and electroacoustic improvisation from an oblique perspective.
    Interferences. Lyrics inspired by the experiences of contemporary female poets. Definitely a
    document of the late-&#8217;90s Italian new music current. The group evolved from a meeting
    between Sabina Meyer and Daniela Cattivelli. Their original intention was to give musical life
    to the poems of a few female poets who have led unusual lives: Ingeborg Bachmann, Patrizia
    Cavalli, Marina Cvetaeva, Meret Oppenheim, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Patrizia Valduga and
    Simone Weil. This music cannot be confined to a single genre; its influences crisscross between
    progressive rock, contemporary music, jazz, improvisation, and electronic music. The project
    started out as a duo but soon grew to a sextet and included musicians who, in the early
    &#8217;90s, were actively involved in drawing international attention to the Italian
    non-academic experimental music scene. The group was formed in Bologna, one of the most dynamic
    centers in this field. And so Antenata brings together various musicians influenced by the
    creative activity that is typical to Bologna and exemplified by Laboratorio Musica Immagine,
    Fastilio, Dire Gelt. The rare exchanges between the music scenes of Bologna and Rome is
    represented in Fabrizio Spera (Ossatura, Blast) and Aleksandar Zaric (Cirko della Primavera), a
    Serbian musician who has been active in Rome for a while.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_127" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_127/">
    <artist>Pierre-Andr&#233; Arcand</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/127_AM.gif" />
    <title>Atlas Epileptic</title>
    <catno>AM 127</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <detail>1 CD-Audio + 1 Video-CD</detail>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Audio: &#8220;It looped back into itself and constantly mutated.&#8221; &#8212;W
    Gibson Atlas Epileptic represents for Pierre-Andr&#233; Arcand a new cycle in the continuity of
    what is called audio art, sound poetry, music, non-music, acoustic, electronic, digital. He
    brings in the voice, the Resonant book, some other found or invented instruments, processed by
    multi-effects and the digital Macchina ricordi [MRN], a visual and sonic evolution generator.
    It is used in live performance to sample and structure the sounds produced on the spot. The MRN
    can also process audio files, fixed sounds. And so were produced The gene of speech and Atlas
    epileptic. Samples were taken in his previous works. Metamusic. Finally, Portuaire, an older
    piece made with the analogical MR finds its place in the tonality of the final triptych.
    &#8220;The linearity. To withdraw from it would be illusory. Here it fights simultaneity
    introduced by repetition and accumulation. A lancinance in the ceaseless recall of the sonic
    elements.&#8221; &#8212; &#201;liane Saint-Arnaud Video: liquid crystals interpretors. Clips,
    animation and installations. &#8220;The texture of liquid crystal display reminds more of a
    painting than of a photography.&#8221; &#8212; Sturgis Working with low resolution video, as on
    this VCD, one is necessarily confronted with a stronger presence of the pixels which the
    compression stresses. The vagueness, the granular, the textures, the structure in checkerboard
    are then taken into account. The light and noises of the video image become object of
    investigation. Besides, filming directly the LCD screen or the cathode ray tube helps to switch
    to the abstract. Moult&#233;crans (N-Square screen) and Framexhibition are new examples of this
    evolution. Otherwise, the content of clips refer to Eros and Thanatos, to a heterogeneous
    blisfulness. The image and the sound remain independent in their conception and are joined in
    the end on the basis of a general relationship of tone or atmosphere. Sometimes the image
    anticipates the sound, sometimes the sound anticipates the image. This first publication on
    Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques, while being an object in itself, offers several faces of PA Arcand:
    the sonosaurus, the singer, the performer, the DJ, the visual poet and installer.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_109" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_109/">
    <artist>Jon Asencio, Sylvie Chenard</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/109_AM.gif" />
    <title>Oc&#233;an &#224; vendre / for sale</title>
    <catno>AM 109</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Sylvie Chenard has been working on her new whale project, Oc&#233;an, since 1999.
    In recent years we have come to know her duo performances on her 1999 CD, Hybride, and on her
    2000 CD, Manifeste pour contrer la violence faite aux femmes. Now in 2002 the whale will be
    presenting elements of her experimentation and improvisation with some of people who she has
    invited to improvise with her in duos. In October, she will launch a follow-up to Oc&#233;an,
    the Oc&#233;an &#224; vendre / for sale project, a duo with Jon Asencio with whom she explores
    the energies of anarchist, pacifist, and feminist resistance and pleasure. Everything is for
    sale; nothing is for sale. This is the territory of urban myth, between the waters of an
    imaginary libertarian and those of a little science fiction about totalitarian reality: a
    universe of sects, sadomasochistic cravatistes, saints-assassins-warriors of global politics
    and economics, daily crimes against humanity, rights deniers and dignity destroyers. This
    sea-soaked meditation, Oc&#233;an, urges us to stand up for a basic quality of life and for
    social solidarity, and to oppose state terrorism.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_123" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_123/">
    <artist>M&#233;lanie Auclair</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/123_AM.gif" />
    <title>Puce &#224; l&#8217;oreille</title>
    <catno>AM 123</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Driven by energy and a certain innocence, M&#233;lanie Auclair meets inspired and
    inspiring musicians: Guy Thouin, Bernard Falaise, Charles Papasoff and Joane H&#233;tu, among
    others. A collection of immediate meetings ruled by freely emotive and textural music in an
    atmosphere of understanding and flexibility. A surprising debut album! &#8220;Puce &#224;
    l&#8217;oreille is born out of an urge to create, to meet, to learn. After a number of creative
    experiences for theatre and dance, I wanted to push my experiments further by placing myself in
    the service of music, instead of placing the music in the service of another medium. I wanted
    to throw myself into it, to expose myself, to make the music that would present itself to me,
    while seizing the moment - a way of interpreting the instant. I wanted to be surrounded by
    people who have been inspiring me for a long time, people I admire for their approach, their
    playing, their strength in making their music uncompromisingly. I wanted to play with these
    people, to share a moment with them. These people I invited have all been extremely generous.
    This album has been conceived without any expectations, without even the thought that these
    experiments could lead to an album, my sole desire being to spend time with these people, to
    get to know them through the music and to get to know music through them. I was also very
    interested in the idea of playing music with people I didn&#8217;t know, our first human
    contact being established through music. The studio session unfolded just like that, with its
    load of feelings and surprises - like life itself. And that&#8217;s how, for a moment, I came
    into musical contact with these people. Each one of them gave me a bug&#8230; And I&#8217;ll do
    the same to you&#8230;&#8221; -M&#233;lanie Auclair</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_158" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_158/">
    <artist>M&#233;lanie Auclair</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/158_AM.gif" />
    <title>D&#233;cor sonore</title>
    <catno>AM 158</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>&#8220;To interpret a place, to inhabit a space&#8230;D&#233;cor sonore is the
    meeting of music with the sounds that fill our daily lives.A sonic window that opens on a
    place, a moment.It&#8217;s a collection of short stories as true-to-life as they are
    fantastic.This is a time to listen to the sounds that have slipped into the background of our
    lives.&#8221;&#8212;M&#233;lanie Auclair &#8220;Although it accompanies our daily lives, noise
    is often ignored and underestimated. It should be listened to with the eyes. There can be no
    noise without movement, no movement without noise. With each heartbeat, each breath, life
    imposes its rythm like a city that imposes its symphony of noise. One that keeps our senses on
    edge. What is all this if not a constantly changing sonic landscape? The moment can last
    4'33"&#8230; Often the banal sketches are drawn without leaving a mark, but sometimes the
    grandest of works can change our ideas forever. You only need close your eyes to see.&#8221;
    &#8212;Antoine Berthiaume</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_113" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_113/">
    <artist>Derek Bailey, Antoine Berthiaume, Fred Frith</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/113_AM.gif" />
    <title>Soshin</title>
    <catno>AM 113</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Guitarist, composer and improviser on the modern jazz scene, Antoine Berthiaume
    was born in Montr&#233;al in 1977. Berthiaume has studied with a vast array of teachers: at
    home with Neil Smolar and Beno&#238;t Charest, in Toronto with Lorne Lofsky and in New York
    with Mordy Ferber, saxophonist Dave Binney and pianist Charlie Banacos. He is pursuing a
    Masters degree in contemporary composition at the Universit&#233; de Montr&#233;al, under the
    supervision of Denis Gougeon. On his first disc, &#8220;Soshin,&#8221; on Ambiances
    Magn&#233;tiques, Antoine Berthiaume&#8217;s duos with Fred Frith and Derek Bailey continue his
    exploration of the full range of improvisation and the thousand-and-one facets of the guitar. A
    first meeting with Bailey, in London in February 2001, opened the doors to a new conception of
    improvisation and allowed him to discover a musical scene that was incredibly diverse and open.
    During a second trip to London, in August 2001, he recorded with Bailey and appeared in a solo
    performance at an Instant Music Meeting show organised by Paul Hood through the London
    Musicians&#8217; Collective. Eight months later, Bailey and Berthiaume would release their
    session concurrently: part of it on Bailey&#8217;s compilation, &#8220;Visitors Book,&#8221;
    (on Incus, a label Bailey and Evan Parker founded in 1970), and part on &#8220;Soshin&#8221;
    (on the Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques label). Then it was back to Montr&#233;al, where a visit by
    Frith was the occasion for a recording session with Bernard Grenon at Studio 270. By turns
    bruitiste and traditional, Soshin is a meeting of the masters, a pilgrimage to the abode of the
    reinventors of improvisation in which Berthiaume is imbued with the presence of two great
    guitarists.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_160" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_160/" recent="yes">
    <artist>Marie-Soleil B&#233;langer, Normand Guilbeault</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/160_AM.gif" />
    <title>Les salines</title>
    <catno>AM 160</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
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      <code>CD</code>
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    <description>Fall 2005: While on a tour of France, Marie-Soleil B&#233;langer (who compulsively
    loves water) and Normand Guilbeault (a salt fan) had the chance to visit Gu&#233;rande
    (Britanny) and its salt marsh. The two musicians were presented with a strange landscape cut
    into tanks, like the squares of a quilt, with small white mounds of salt scattered all around.
    The whole thing is set on a horizontal surface that is stretched and diced. Salt is an
    essential element of mankind's life. Early on, this vital product was exploited and
    commercialized on a large scale. Although the first salt-marsh were most likely built by the
    monks of the St. Michel's Abbey in the 12th century, the salt industry really took off only
    during the 15th century. Nowadays, salt producers (or salt-makers) are applying age-old
    techniques, since the operation of a salt-marsh has remained almost unchanged since the Middle
    Ages. Tucked between sea and land, salt-marshes form a privileged natural environment home to a
    fertile though fragile ecosystem. This environment is very rich and hosts a large number of
    unique bird and plant species. By making sure that the water in the tanks is renewed and by
    maintaining water levels in the marsh, the salt-maker preserves this natural habitat. As for
    water, it has already become a global political issue: drinking water, water for cultures,
    water of industrial use. Water is now a highly coveted resource, generating numerous debates
    about its distribution and sharing. Right now, 1 billion people on the planet do not have
    access to drinking water. We often hear of water wars and water management. Will water really
    become an issue in the conflicts of the 21st century? The current crisis is about more than
    rarity. It also covers the distribution, allocation and choices made regarding water. Salt
    brings thirst and water needs salt for the human body to absorb it. Salt water is undrinkable,
    but we can extract salt out of it. These two complimentary elements inspired the Les salines
    project, for which musicians Guilbeault and B&#233;langer wrote 14 pieces. This music work sees
    the infinitely small brush elbows with the infinitely large. Impressionistic music evoking wide
    flat landscapes. At times fragile, at times strong, Les salines brings to mind tiny crystals of
    salt and salt-marshes, but also the sea and the various incarnations of water. A successful
    marriage between composition and improvisation, noise and lyricism, discipline and
    freedom.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_163" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_163/" recent="yes">
    <artist>Antoine Berthiaume, MaryClare Brzytwa</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/163_AM.gif" />
    <title>Bebe Donkey</title>
    <catno>AM 163</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
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      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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    <description>&#8220;Each time Montr&#233;al based guitar wiz Antoine Berthiaume unleashes a
    disc, he re-invents himself and challenges both himself and us, the listeners, at the same
    time. Here, Berthiaume and Brzytwa blend layers of electronic and sampled sounds producing
    sonic sculptures. Very odd and completely enchanting!&#8221; &#8212;Bruce Gallanter, Downtown
    Music Gallery, New York, February 2007</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_178" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_178/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Antoine Berthiaume, Elliott Sharp</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/178_AM.gif" />
    <title>BASE</title>
    <catno>AM 178</catno>
    <year>2008</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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    <description>Sound waves for the end of times&#8230; Listening to this last opus of
    experimental music, one cannot stop thinking of Iannis Xenakis&#8217;s La L&#233;gende
    d&#8217;Eer. Eer dies, visits the dregs, and comes back to life. Berthiaume and Sharp follow a
    similar path, through the transubstantiation of their guitars into sonic implements. The
    growing intensity emanating from Xenakis&#8217;s composition is reflected, 30 years later, in
    these 11 rather reverential improvisations. BASE is constructed, deconstructed, then
    reconstructed into a wall of sounds ranging from the awakening through to experimentation, then
    toward a final concerto, a kind of syncopated scream from the instruments. Hell is definitely
    worth worrying about. Let&#8217;s be good and lend an ear. &#8212;Serge Abiaad</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_135" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_135/">
    <artist>Antoine Berthiaume, Quentin SirJacq, Norman Teale</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/135_AM.gif" />
    <title>Leaves and Snows</title>
    <catno>AM 135</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>The young guitarist Antoine Berthiaume, who released in 2002 an album of duets
    with Fred Frith and Derek Bailey titled Soshin, unveils his second effort for Ambiances
    Magn&#233;tiques, Leaves and Snows, a project also featuring pianist Quentin Sirjacq and sound
    engineer Norman Teale. This meeting of fresh talents has given birth to a brilliant, highly
    open, poetry-filled collaboration. Certain meetings give such good results that one wonders if
    something more than luck was at play. In the wonderful setting of Mills College, California,
    Quentin Sirjacq and Antoine Berthiaume are both in Jo&#235;lle L&#233;andre&#8217;s
    improvisation class. They are both native French speakers, they both lead a jazz group and they
    share a taste for adventure &#8212; enough common points to spark the beginning of a great
    collaboration. Piano and guitar: a rather unusual, often eschewed pairing that delivers at
    their fingertips a ground for new explorations; a license to discover new sounds and try out
    new musical ideas. Norman Teale will be the cement that will make this album possible.
    Teale&#8217;s talent was unveiled in the course of the collaboration and it became gradually
    obvious that his work with electronics and mixing was becoming an integral part of the group.
    And so Sirjacq and Berthiaume gave him carte blanche. It is often said that jazz is about
    innovation while paying due respect to tradition. Leaves and Snows is the work of three young
    musicians eager to make their voices heard and to share their music &#8212; very
    &#8220;actual&#8221; music, because it successfully brings together their diverse musical
    identities (jazz, contemporary music, rock&#8230;) in a free improvisation context. The result:
    music that addresses the listener, inviting him/her to widen his/her musical perception through
    countless variations and colors, without ever weakening the coherence of its poetical approach.
    Guitarist, improviser and composer Antoine Berthiaume is active on the jazz, &#8220;musique
    actuelle&#8221; and contemporary music scenes. He performs live regularly at the helm of a
    number of groups, including Les Chemins de la route, the Berthiaume-Donato-Tanguay Trio, and
    L&#8217;Hexacorde. He will be performing at the next Montr&#233;al Jazz Festival. Pianist and
    composer Quentin Sirjacq hails from France. His eclectic musical interests keep him active as
    an improviser, a new music performer, and a composer of incidental music for film and dance.
    American sound engineer, producer and composer Norman Teale is a graduate student in Mills
    College&#8217;s &#8220;Electronic Music and Recording Media&#8221; program.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_106" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_106/">
    <artist>Myles Boisen, Jean Derome, Fred Frith, Pierre Tanguay</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/106_AM.gif" />
    <title>All is bright, but it is not day</title>
    <catno>AM 106</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The three musicians involved in this trio have known each other for a long time,
    but this CD is the result of a very new collaborative project. Recorded in a California studio,
    this CD is also the singular result of spontaneous, real-time sound processing. Only a listen
    will demonstrate the breadth of this sturdy musical exchange between three excellent musicians,
    virtuosic with listening and improvisation, and a rogue recording engineer. Fred Frith has
    invented his own way to improvise. Since his first solo guitar recording in 1974, he has been
    perceived like a radical innovator of great talent. On the course of 30 years, he has been
    working around the world with famous artists who are equally interested in similar creative
    processes. Composer and saxophone player Jean Derome, and percussionnist Pierre Tanguay, are
    two of these artists. Derome and Tanguay have played together in a myriad of projects since
    1980. Based upon intuitive communication, the result of a long friendship, Jean Derome and
    Pierre Tanguay continually establish a joyous ambience, blooming with precision and freedom. As
    for the recording and mixing engineer, Myles Boisen, he shows himself to be both sensitive and
    audacious. The meeting of Frith, Derome and Tanguay, three highly experienced musicians, with
    Boisen produces nothing less than explosive psychedelic music. Real-time processing is a
    fundamental asset here, as the new sound matter it brings forward have a radical effect on the
    perception of music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_147" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_147/">
    <artist>DB Boyko, Christine Duncan, Jean Martin</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/147_AM.gif" />
    <title>Idiolalla</title>
    <catno>AM 147</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Idiolalla is actually a vocal illness, a made-up language infection. DB Boyko and
    Christine Duncan are turning gibberish into improvised poetry, while Jean Martin accompanies
    them by hitting multi-timbered objects. These three virtuosos have delivered a highly colourful
    album of creative music. Their fanciful dialogues are laced with rhythms and dynamics inspired
    by folklore, opera and jazz. Together, they create a unique sound that is intense and
    beautiful, adventuresome and absurd.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_107" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_107/">
    <artist>Tim Brady</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/107_AM.gif" />
    <title>Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks</title>
    <catno>AM 107</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Twenty Quartet Inch Jacks is Tim Brady&#8217;s first release on the Ambiance
    Magn&#233;tiques label and with this record Brady moves his work as both a composer and a
    guitarist into new territory. Well-known for his innovative guitar work, this new CD combines a
    major new work for 20 guitars with 2 works which make extensive use of sampling and computer
    sound design. The title track is a work commissioned by the international th&#233;&#226;tre
    festival Les Coups de Th&#233;&#226;tre. The commission was for a live performance work for 20
    young guitarists lasting 45 minutes, but soon after Brady began composing the work it became
    clear that the recorded version of the work was taking on a life of its own. Using no
    electronics or sampling, and limiting himself to one guitar (a Steinberger GM4T), one fuzz box,
    a volume pedal and a slide, Brady set out to create a work that explored of the fundamental
    character of the guitar while creating a new sense of what a guitar ensemble could sound like.
    Simple picking, big chords, noisey strings, bluesy string bends, open string pull-offs and
    percussive attacks are the elements that combine to create striking musical textures and
    evocative atmospheres. The work divides into 8 sections, but is meant to be played and listened
    to as a single, continuos piece. The human voice (Brady&#8217;s on the CD) is also an integral
    part of the sound world, as the theatrical nature of the work bridges the gap between pure
    music and live performance. The human voice play an important role in the 2 other pieces on the
    CD. Music Box Bell Curves (&#8220;Hello Paris!&#8221;) was commissioned by INA-GRM for the 2001
    Radio-France festival PRESENCE in Paris. Using dozens of samples of small toy instruments,
    which he has collected for 40 years, and samples from a &#8220;sonic party&#8221; (where these
    instrumenta are played by his friends), Brady created a dramatic tape part that frames a
    heavily processed live guitar part. The last work on the CD grew out of a commission by the
    Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. In 2001, Brady created an installation piece entitled
    &#8220;public space/private music,&#8221; using samples of Sauchiehall Street and sounds from
    the CCA building. After the installation the sound of these samples stuck in his mind and he
    eventually re-worked the samples into a larger piece for guitar and tape. The simple guitar
    part creates a sense of dialogue with the textures of the tape, moving to a rhythmic climax and
    resolving to the quiet sounds of a workman whistling a hint of a tune as he sweeps the floor at
    the CCA. The guitar returns, playing quiet harmonics as the sounds of the streets of Glasgow
    bring the work to a close.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_110" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_110/">
    <artist>Tim Brady</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/110_AM.gif" />
    <title>Unison Rituals</title>
    <catno>AM 110</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Unison Rituals is Tim Brady&#8217;s second release on Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques,
    and features five highly original chamber works for saxophone and ensemble which point to the
    increasing trend among new music ensembles to play music coming from a wide range of
    performance traditions, bridging the gap between musique actuelle and contemporary chamber
    works. Though Brady is perhaps best known for his virtuoso solo guitar works, as documented on
    the 2002 Ambiance magn&#233;tique release Twenty Quartet Inch Jacks (Am 107), he is also a
    chamber and orchestral composer of great imagaination and these five compostions show the scope
    of his musical vision. The title track is a powerful work for saxophone quartet. Brady&#8217;s
    at times obsessive use of unison melodic material (Unison Rituals) is a central element of this
    work, given a stunning performance by the Quasar saxophone quartet. The work is also unique in
    that the quartet actually plays a total of six saxophones during the course of the composition.
    The opening of the piece uses 2 tenor saxophones, plus alto and baritone, the central section
    uses the traditional soprano, alto, tenor and baritone, and the ending explores the colour of 2
    soprano saxophones playing in unison against the deeper resonances the of alto and baritone.
    The next three performance are by Bradyworks, the composer&#8217;s own chamber ensemble. Double
    Helix is a quartet for saxophone (soprano, alto and baritone), combined with piano, percussion
    and cello and features complex ensemble playing and interlocking rhythmic counterpoint. Two
    Chords Less Than a Blues features solos for each of the performers on tenor saxophone, piano
    and percussion. The work&#8217;s title refers to the fact that the piece explores two very
    simple harmonic ideas - a 4-note cluster and the Cminor7 chord - spinning out elaborte textural
    and melodic ideas from two very primary musical ideas. Escapement is a quartet with Brady
    playing scordatura guitar. For this composition, the guitar is tuned to a differnet set of
    notes than usual, giving the work a distinctive harmonic colour. The final work on the CD is
    Sound Off, Brady&#8217;s 1983 outdoor performance piece for 100 wind instruments and 8 bass
    drums, done here in a studio version, using multi-track overdubbing to create an ensemble of 45
    winds and 3 bass drums. The work moves from complex textures to simple unison drones to
    jazz-influenced ensemble counterpoint, creating a striking 12 and a half minute CD-version of
    Brady&#8217;s original 45-minute outdoor extravaganza.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_125" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_125/">
    <artist>Tim Brady</artist>
    <artistdetail>Nouvel ensemble moderne (NEM)</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/125_AM.gif" />
    <title>Playing Guitar: Symphony #1</title>
    <catno>AM 125</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
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    <description>Composer and guitarist Tim Brady releases his most ambitious project ever with his
    3rd Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques recording, a 46-minute symphony in 5 movements for solo electric
    guitar, sampler, live electronics and a virtuoso chamber ensemble of 15 musicians. The work was
    commissioned in 1997 by Canada's highly acclaimed contemporary music orchestra, the Nouvel
    Ensemble Moderne, and was premiered in Montr&#233;al in October 2002, followed by performances
    in New York and Marseille. The composition combines all of Brady's hallmark compositional ideas
    into a single, rich, complex work of symphonic scope. The electric guitar is a central part of
    the work, both through Brady's live performance and through the use of highly processed
    electric guitar sounds triggered from a keyboard sampler. The orchestral writing varies from
    delicate, soloistic lines though complex polyrhythmic counterpoint to dense, aggressive
    rhythmic monoliths, all performed with remarkable precision and consummate musicianship by the
    Nouvel Ensemble Moderne under conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt. The work was recorded in 24-bit
    audio using multitrack techniques in order to give the most detailed possible sound to this
    vibrant sonic tapestry. The recording reveals a new way to create contemporary chamber music:
    combining the intensity of performance of 16 players on stage with the almost limitless
    possibilites of sampling and live signal processing so as to allow the composer and the
    listener an unparalleled freedom to imagine new forms of muscial expression. The CD also
    inculdes a smaller chamber work for piano, guitar and electronics, entitled "Frame 1 -
    Resonance", which explores these ideas about new music, guitars and technology on a more
    intimate scale.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_139" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_139/">
    <artist>Tim Brady</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/139_AM.gif" />
    <title>Three Cities in the Life of Dr Norman Bethune</title>
    <catno>AM 139</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>This chamber opera for voice, electric guitar, piano, percussion, saxophones,
    string quartet and tape has been performed in Montr&#233;al (2003) and Toronto (2005). It tells
    the life of the Canadian doctor and humanitarian Norman Bethune (1890-1939). Interweaving
    extracts from Bethune&#8217;s own letters with poetry of the 1930s, Three Cities in the Life of
    Dr. Norman Bethune explores the psychological and social elements that propelled Bethune to
    leave his comfortable life in Montr&#233;al to fight with the Republican International Brigade
    in Spain in 1936, and finally to join the Chinese Army in early 1938. The work follows Bethune
    through three cities over the course of 5 years in one of the most turbulent eras of 20th
    century history as he seeks to make sense of the world, to fight for what he believes in, and
    to confront his own mortality.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_156" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_156/">
    <artist>Tim Brady</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/156_AM.gif" />
    <title>GO [Guitar Obsession]</title>
    <catno>AM 156</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>While Brady&#8217;s three previous Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques releases were all
    focused more on his work as a composer, GO [Guitar Obsession] brings the guitar back to centre
    stage, making it clear why Guitar Player Magazine has named the Montr&#233;al-based composer
    and musician &#8220;one of the 30 most important guitarists for the future of the
    instrument&#8221;. The goal of the CD was to create a recording focused primarily on
    Brady&#8217;s guitar playing and composing, rather than on complex studio technology.
    Overdubbing, looping and computer processing were part of the production process, but they
    always take a back seat to the sound and texture of a solo guitar performance. The first three
    pieces on the CD are updated versions of pieces which Brady composed over 20 years ago. GO
    [Guitar Obsession] is a fast, jazz-tinged loop piece; Yellow, Add Green is a deconstructed
    blues with overdubs and While Softly Sounds is a beautiful solo guitar ballad. Frame 22: Switch
    is a new work, for guitar and live electronics, moving from rock-tinged clusters to abstract
    electronics to a haunting, melismatic melody. The work of four other composers is also an
    important part of this recording, underscoring Brady&#8217;s strong commitment to developing
    his vision of the electric guitar as a solo instrument in collaboration with other artists. Le
    Chants des baleines by Jean-Fran&#231;ois Laporte and unplugged by Alexander Burton where both
    commissioned by Brady, while Vampyr!, by French Tristan Murail, is a work dating from 1986. The
    CD ends with the quiet, reflective work Bobby J, by British composer Laurence
    Crane.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_164" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_164/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Tim Brady, Topology</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/164_AM.gif" />
    <title>Scat</title>
    <subtitle>(because we all havevoices and stories to tell)</subtitle>
    <catno>AM 164</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
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    <description>Tim Brady&#8217;s latest release on Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques is an extraordinary
    collaboration between artists from across the world. On the CD SCAT, Brady&#8217;s rhythmic,
    jazz-influenced North American chamber music is paired with the dynamic, take-no prisoners
    virtuosity of Australia&#8217;s Topology ensemble, based in Brisbane. Brady and Topology began
    collaborating in 1997, and toured Australia together in 1999, when the idea for this project
    was born. The CD presents some of Brady&#8217;s most exciting and passionate chamber works, in
    unrivaled performances by one of the finest new music ensemble of our time. SCAT (because we
    all have voices and stories to tell) takes its title from the strongly jazz-influenced first
    and third movements, and also from the unusual use of the musicians speaking voices as part of
    the music in the second and third movements. In the final movement, the musicians have to tell
    their life-story in 30 seconds, while playing their instrument as an accompaniement,
    &#8220;scating&#8221; their personal histories. Lighting Field was composed for the 1999
    Brady/Topology Australian tour, and consists of two movements. Darkness pairs the musicians
    against an electroacoustic sampler part (playing processed electric guitar samples) to create a
    quietly foreboding atmosphere. Illumination brings the ensemble together for one of the most
    exciting rhythmic and dramatic movements that Brady has penned in recent years. Dark Matter
    (Primal Pulse) was originally composed for the Philadelphia ensemble Rel&#226;che, and is a
    small-scale concerto for viola, accompanied by 8 musicians. The work is quiet and introspective
    in character, and is given a beautiful and detailed performance by Topology&#8217;s violist,
    Bernard Hoey. Struck Twice By Lightning uses some of the same set of electric guitar samples as
    Lightning Field, but creates a totally different musical universe with them. Struck Twice By
    Lighting is about rhythm and articulation, about connecting the dark, visceral sound of the
    viola to the chiming, clangerous, pulsing sound of sampled electric guitars.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_013" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_013/">
    <artist>Bruire</artist>
    <artistdetail>C&#244;t&#233;</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/013_AM.gif" />
    <title>Le barman a tort de sourire</title>
    <catno>AM 013</catno>
    <year>1989</year>
    <format>
      <code>LP</code>
      <price>22.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>18 sonic painting like just as many dishes, treated by an unbridledly imaginative
    cook. No need to add water.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_025" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_025/">
    <artist>Bruire</artist>
    <artistdetail>C&#244;t&#233;</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/025_AM.gif" />
    <title>Les Fleurs de L&#233;o</title>
    <catno>AM 025</catno>
    <year>1992</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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    <description>Part two of a triptych which started with the album Le barman a tort de sourire
    (AM 013), this second Bruire release continues the formal and poetic search already in a
    process of elaboration. Strong eclecticism, mathematical impurity, extreme swarming, amateurish
    silences, crushed bolts, streams of screeches and a myriad of nucleiproteins. Thirteen new
    compositions tigthly linked by a poetic text form the core of what percussionist Michel F
    C&#244;t&#233; calls Les fleurs de L&#233;o: immemoriality, bombs, necessity, a celestrial
    ostrich, flowers, an imperishable friend, and death. Besides Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, the other
    Bruirors are: Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Claude Lamothe, Robert Marcel Lepage, Ren&#233;
    Lussier, Ikue Mori and Claude St-Jean.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="arm_03" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/arm_03/">
    <artist>Bruire</artist>
    <artistdetail>C&#244;t&#233;</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/03_ARM.gif" />
    <title>Muss Muss Hic!</title>
    <catno>ARM 03</catno>
    <year>1992</year>
    <format>
      <code>CAS</code>
      <price>12.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_034" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_034/">
    <artist>Bruire</artist>
    <artistdetail>C&#244;t&#233;</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/034_AM.gif" />
    <title>L&#8217;&#226;me de l&#8217;objet</title>
    <catno>AM 034</catno>
    <year>1995</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>This variable formation here takes the form of a quintet of inventive musicians
    and composers. The five musicians are determined to make this a pleasant experience for both
    listeners and players. As a result, the sounds on &#8220;L&#8217;&#226;me de
    l&#8217;objet&#8221; (&#8220;The Object&#8217;s Soul&#8221;) show a mixture of diversions and
    substitutions, will and chance. The nine pieces were recorded live on the course of three days.
    On it, you can hear an evocation of the unforgettable Gelsomina, from Fellini&#8217;s film
    &#8220;La Strada&#8221;; rediscover the post-war Paris coffeeshop jazzy existentialism; follow
    the surrealist adventures of Mono; lose yourself in pious or pagan prayers. The choice is
    yours! To allow sounds their own personality, poetic and bare naked. Unheard scratchbooks; a
    celebration of transition. This is where Bruire sits: in the middle of an overflowing desire of
    exploration.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_097" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_097/">
    <artist>Bruire</artist>
    <artistdetail>C&#244;t&#233;</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/097_AM.gif" />
    <title>Chants rupestres</title>
    <catno>AM 097</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>A quartet born of hair-covered brawn and primeval sinew; cave music prehistoric,
    ageless and archaic. Casting our thinking about music back 50,000 years, perhaps to its very
    birth, to those first true pioneering musical experimenters, our ancestors.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_083" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_083/">
    <artist>Arthur Bull, Daniel He&#239;kalo</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/083_AM.gif" />
    <title>D&#233;rapages &#224; cordes</title>
    <catno>AM 083</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>First recording by the Nova Scotia guitar duet which compiles a series free
    improvisations presented as is, without editing. Daniel He&#239;kalo is a Montr&#233;al-born
    musician, composer, improvisor and sound designer. As a versatile and flexible artist, he is
    perfectly suited for theatre, film, dance, and radio productions. Arthur Bull is a veteran
    musician of the improvising music scene. Formerly the guitarist with The Four Horsemen, Bull
    has also played extensively with Paul Dutton, David Prentice, Michael Snow, John Oswald, Bill
    Smith and Paul Cram, and he has performed in concert with Derek Bailey and Roscoe
    Mitchell.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_151" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_151/">
    <artist>Arthur Bull, Daniel He&#239;kalo</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/151_AM.gif" />
    <title>Concentr&#233;s et amalgames</title>
    <catno>AM 151</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Playing together since 1996, Bull and He&#239;kalo&#8217;s new offering is a work
    of ripe and mature improvisation, often percussive, simultaneously introspective, questioning
    and scorching, without compromise and artifice. Concentr&#233;s et amalgames features six
    guitar (electric, prepared, acoustic and classical) duets plus five other tracks in which
    Daniel He&#239;kalo and Arthur Bull&#8217;s guitars pair up with He&#239;kalo&#8217;s
    percussion, including a prepared jazz drum kit. Both musicians wanted to push further their
    rhythm experiments, textural work and real-time synergetic transformation of the material. The
    result showcases a duo that has gained in maturity yet remains just as implacable and
    uncompromising, refusing to bow to the latest sonic trends. This is direct, straightforward
    music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_043" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_043/">
    <artist>Pierre Cartier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/043_AM.gif" />
    <title>Les fleurs du tapis</title>
    <catno>AM 043</catno>
    <year>1996</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Recorded in a Qu&#233;bec church in 1989, the never-before-published material on
    Les fleurs du tapis has definitely resisted the assaults of time, and we are now offering it a
    due release. Brilliantly interpreted by a jazz line-up of undeniable complicity, the eloquence
    and elegance of this music demonstrates Pierre Cartier&#8217;s great sense of melody.
    Delicious!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_056" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_056/">
    <artist>Pierre Cartier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/056_AM.gif" />
    <title>Chansons de Douve</title>
    <catno>AM 056</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>29.70 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>33.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Pierre Cartier, composer and bass player, has been featured in DAME&#8217;s
    catalogue with its CD Les fleurs du tapis and his performance in ensembles such as
    &#201;vidence and Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms. His new project, &#8220;Chansons de
    Douve&#8221; (&#8220;Songs of Douve&#8221;), has been many years in the making and is now
    available on double CD. Fourteen songs based on poems by Yves Bonnefoy, which form a profound
    ceremonial that goes to the heart of poetic investigation, the source of what we may call the
    sacred. This is the poetry of essence, stripped of ornaments, a pivot between the ontological
    and the mystical. Are dialoging two females voices, one man&#8217;s, three brass instruments,
    two saxophones, one double-bass and two trap sets. Vocal polyphony and unisons, composed
    development and improvised solos. &#8220;Chansons de Douve&#8221; is a suite of mediations on
    presence and emptiness.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_102" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_102/">
    <artist>Pierre Cartier</artist>
    <artistdetail>Cendrars</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/102_AM.gif" />
    <title>&#171;Dis, Blaise&#8230;&#187; chanson du Transsib&#233;rien</title>
    <catno>AM 102</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>With his faithful accomplices, and on the heals of his Chansons de Douve
    (AM054CD), Pierre Cartier presents, a double cd, &#171;Dis, Blaise&#8230;&#187; chanson du
    Transsib&#233;rien, who he sings from start to finish the very epic and very famous poem by
    Blaise Cendrars. A composer, doublebass player and singer, Pierre Cartier is involved in many
    different musics: gregorian chant and medieval music, baroque musique on period instruments,
    symphonic and contemporary musics, jazz (notably Thelonious Monk) and improvised new musics.
    All of these practices merge into his music upon the fortunate meeting of poetry and song.
    Following the majestuous ceremonial of Chansons de Douve,with poems by Yves Bonnefoy, Cartier
    now borrows the passionnate voice of Blaise Cendrars for his new project. &#8220;I was not yet
    acquainted with the works of Blaise Cendrars when, flipping one day through the pages of an
    anthology of French poetry, I first fell upon the Prose du Transsib&#233;rien. I think I must
    have been deeply moved by this style of writing that resembled nothing I had encountered
    before, and which actually seemed quite alien to me then (I was working on poems by Yves
    Bonnefoy at the time); and yet, it touched me to the extent that I immediately felt the urge to
    sing this text. I also knew nothing of the almost mythical character&#8212;the traveller and
    adventurer&#8212;Cendrars had become, nor even of the man himself, whose voice resounded within
    me, pure and true. Vision, desire, violence, gentleness: this poem simply spoke the essence of
    suffering. [&#8230;]&#8221; &#8212;Pierre Cartier</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_159" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_159/" recent="yes">
    <artist>Isaiah Ceccarelli</artist>
    <artistdetail></artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/159_AM.gif" />
    <title>Lieux-dits</title>
    <catno>AM 159</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>These compositions were inspired by numerous voyages in the French Alps and the
    Pyrenees. Several titles are the result of personal research into Savoyard and Occitan after
    having met the dialectologist Hubert Bessat who co-authored, with Claudette Germi, Les mots de
    la montagne autour du Mont-Blanc and Les noms du paysage alpin (Grenoble, &#201;ditions
    litt&#233;raires et linguistiques de l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Grenoble, 1991 and 1993).
    Estaoubio&#8230; is taken from an inscription found on a house in Saint-Girons (Ari&#232;ge,
    France). Certain rhythmic and harmonic concepts were inspired by the study of Technique de mon
    langage musical by Olivier Messiaen (Paris, &#201;ditions musicales Alphonse Leduc,
    1944).</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_104" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_104/">
    <artist>Sylvie Chenard</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/104_AM.gif" />
    <title>Oc&#233;an pour la suite</title>
    <catno>AM 104</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Sylvie Chenard has been working on her new whale project, Oc&#233;an, since 1999.
    In recent years we have come to know her duo performances on her 1999 CD, Hybride, and on her
    2000 CD, Manifeste pour contrer la violence faite aux femmes. Now in 2002 the whale will be
    presenting elements of her experimentation and improvisation with some of people who she has
    invited to improvise with her in duos. This time the star, plankton, and the sea horse will
    dive with the whale to the depths of a little marine bestiary that demands to be known and that
    has given birth to the CD Oc&#233;an pour la suite. For the sake of the oceans, for the sake of
    the world, for the sake of origins from noises before music. From her duo with Maryse Poulin
    come the pieces &#8220;Bestiaire marin,&#8221; &#8220;Le monde bouge,&#8221; &#8220;Peau de
    pays,&#8221; and &#8220;Souffle&#8221;; with Alexandre St-Onge: &#8220;Plancton,&#8221;
    &#8220;Ombres pensantes,&#8221; and &#8220;Particules&#8221;; and with Martin T&#233;treault:
    &#8220;Vagues,&#8221; &#8220;Plage,&#8221; &#8220;Chevauch&#233;e,&#8221;
    &#8220;D&#233;pollution,&#8221; &#8220;Intempestive,&#8221; and &#8220;Pour la suite.&#8221;
    You are invited to plunge into these three sea-soaked meditations. Oc&#233;an.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_003" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_003/">
    <artist>Conventum</artist>
    <artistdetail>Bouchard, Cormier, Derome, Duchesne, Lussier</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/003_AM.gif" />
    <title>77-79 + r&#233;&#233;dition</title>
    <catno>AM 003/004</catno>
    <year>1986</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xLP</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
    <description>Reissued (2LP) in 1986 of the LPs &#192; l&#8217;aff&#251;t d&#8217;un complot,
    1977 [Disques Tamandir], and Le bureau central des utopies, 1979 [Disques Cadence]. Each LP has
    since been reissued on CD in 1996 by Kozak [KO 2506-2 and KO 2507-2].</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_067" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_067/">
    <artist>Michel F C&#244;t&#233;</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/067_AM.gif" />
    <title>Compil zouave</title>
    <catno>AM 067</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>temp. out of stock</availability>
    </format>
    <description>With this new collaborative album, Michel F C&#244;t&#233; mixes science, alcohol,
    and battery of defective phonometers. On &#8220;Compil Zouave,&#8221; we are treated with new
    compositions treading on semi-jazz, neo-reggae and lo-fly grounds, among other such variable
    genres.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_137" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_137/">
    <artist>Michel F C&#244;t&#233;</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/137_AM.gif" />
    <title>Flat fourgonnette (Mescal free style)</title>
    <catno>AM 137</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>With Michel F. C&#244;t&#233;, we never know what to expect! This time, his new
    project is nothing less than a gunfight at the OK Corral, and no one knows who, between country
    or actuelle music, will walk away the winner&#8230; Flat fourgonnette (that can be very rougly
    translated as &#8220;Flat pick-up truck (Mescal free style)&#8221;), is Michel F.
    C&#244;t&#233;&#8217;s attempt at &#8220;american&#8221; music: hybrid, unpredictable and
    funny. &#8220;This is an album of American music. There are cowboys and horses, a saloon and
    its pretty manageress, an Italian immigrant, a love story, a ride through the desert, and even
    an Indian or two. Nothing experimental, 100% animal. Flat Fourgonnette is like an old
    story-telling buffalo; his imprecise recollections are endearing. I like hesitations and
    mistakes - they are more poetic, more revealing than the olympic, boring virtuosity we are used
    to. Yee-Haw!!!&#8221; &#8212;M.F.C. To produce the album, he brought together a number of
    talented and trusty partners, including: Bernard Falaise (guitars), Fr&#233;d&#233;ric
    Boudreault (bass), Claude Fradette (guitars), Frank Martel (theremin), and AnneBruce Falconer
    &amp; Billie Folliday (vocals).</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_168" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_168/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Michel F C&#244;t&#233;</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/168_AM.gif" />
    <title>(juste) Claudette</title>
    <catno>AM 168</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>(juste) Claudette is acid, coarse and rough. It has swing and bite. It&#8217;s a
    fast and (not-so-always) willing quartet. They play loud, they hit hard, and they smell strong
    (but not all the time). Claudette can also be tender, judging from the two ballads included (a
    Vincent Gallo cover and an approximate reading of a piece by Morton Feldman). So, it&#8217;s
    also a record for the girls (and not only Claudette). Alexandre St-Onge on doublebass, Bernard
    Falaise on electric guitar, Jesse Levine on electric organ, Michel F C&#244;t&#233; on drums
    and pocket trumpet (Gordon Allen will be the live trumpeter). That&#8217;s it for the manpower.
    Style-wise, Claudette is not easily labeled. As usual, I&#8217;m avoiding sure-fire categories.
    This is nameless music. The musicians and the band have names, but the music they create
    doesn&#8217;t. There, now figure it all out! All right, in the name of kindness and to reassure
    those who absolutely need markers, we&#8217;ll pretend that (juste) Claudette is at the
    crossroads of Bruire, Klaxon Gueule and Flat Fourgonnette. Although, it would be pure luck if
    it happened to be true. Let&#8217;s say that (juste) Claudette is resistance to
    repetition.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_031" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_031/">
    <artist>Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, Diane Labrosse</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/031_AM.gif" />
    <title>Duo d&#233;constructiviste</title>
    <catno>AM 031</catno>
    <year>1994</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, better known as leader of Bruire, and Diane Labrosse, as
    active member of the group Justine, present Duo D&#233;constructiviste. Construct and
    deconstruct, like matching the pieces from different meccano sets&#8230; Deconstruct, then
    construct. Based on improvisation, interactive listening and radical exploration, their music
    uses short phrases as part of the writing process, quoting some of their favorite artists and
    friends. They travel happily (and freely) frow new musical currents to contemporary writings
    and some more abstract ambiances. Using a hybrid set-up of acoustic and electronic percussions
    wired to a portable DAT recorder, C&#244;t&#233; is both rhythmical and melodic, colourful and
    eloquent. Labrosse, performing on digital sampler keyboard brings out melodies only to break
    them with her usual sense of humour and a certain notion of drama. Duo D&#233;constructiviste
    was created at The Banff Centre for the Arts in the fall of 93.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_120" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_120/">
    <artist>Guido Del Fabbro</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/120_AM.gif" />
    <title>Carr&#233; de sable</title>
    <catno>AM 120</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>120th album released by Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques, "Carr&#233; de sable"
    (Sandbox) introduces Guido Del Fabbro as a solo artist. It is a mixture of sound environments
    and instrumental pieces combining composition and multitracked improvisation. A suite of 19
    short pieces in which rhythms mechanically come to life through the progressive accretion of
    electronic and acoustic elements. Noises, sounds and world music-influenced melodies
    intermingle. A kind of magic taking us to the heart of Guido Del Fabbro&#8217;s wild universe.
    On this album, the young composer and musician reveals himself as a promising
    jack-of-all-trades. In addition to his faithful violin, Del Fabbro plays a wide array of
    instruments and objects, including guitar (acoustic, electric, prepared), mandolin, banjo,
    recorder, living-room organ, turntable, and coffeepot. What was the young musician&#8217;s
    philosophy for this album? "To play with very simple elements, just like a child in a sandbox."
    A violinist since the age of four, Guido Del Fabbro first showed an interest in composition and
    improvisation in 1990 - he was only ten years old. A member of the Fanfare Pourpour and the
    group Rouge Ciel, he also appears on the DAME production "Sang 9" with the group Concorde
    Crash. Only 23 years old, this composer already has an impressive track record and is promised
    to a brilliant career. Highly recommended.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_167" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_167/" recent="yes">
    <artist>Guido Del Fabbro</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/167_AM.gif" />
    <title>Agr&#233;gats</title>
    <catno>AM 167</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Agr&#233;gats presents 13 pieces orchestrated for acoustic instruments, with a
    touch of electronics, performed by a shapeshifting ensemble directed by Guido Del Fabbro. A
    tentet at its largest, this group brings together individuals from various generations and
    musical backgrounds, all highly talented performers and improvisers. Flautist Jean Derome and
    Pierre Tanguay on percussion and objects are pillars of the local &#8220;musique
    actuelle&#8221; scene and renown jazzmen; accordionist Luzio Altobelli, clarinetist
    Pierre-Emmanuel Poizat (both from Manouche and Fanfare Pourpour), and clarinetist Guillaume
    Bourque (Manouche, Lara), are well versed in world and pop music; trombonist Nicolas Therrien
    plays jazz and Brazilian music; Philippe Brault on doublebass works in pop music; cellist
    Sheila Hannigan plays tango, classical music, and pop; drummer Stefan Schneider (Bell
    Orchestre, Iks, Jorane) does modern jazz and post-rock. The ensemble is rounded up by Guido Del
    Fabbro on violin and electronics. The music, mirroring the group&#8217;s lineup, combines
    several musical currents, without ever forcing them into the melting pot. Guido Del
    Fabbro&#8217;s work as an arranger focuses on the possible combinations of tones highlighting
    the melodic aspect of the repertoire, which has a foot in traditional folk music and another in
    avant-rock territory. An intense work performed by an unmatched ensemble, whose conductor will
    definitely surprise you.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_112" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_112/">
    <artist>Bertrand Denzler, Hans Koch</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/112_AM.gif" />
    <title>Asym&#233;tries</title>
    <catno>AM 112</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The two musicians met in 1996 at one of Butch Morris&#8217;s
    &#8220;conductions&#8221; and first played together, as a duo, in 1999. They have also played
    in a quartet with Gunter M&#252;ller and Jacques Widmer as well as with the group Chamaeleo
    Vulgaris, and they have appeared at the Visages des Nouvelles Musiques Suisses Festival in
    Marseille. These recordings are from 2001. &#8220;The playing of these two vital Swiss
    adventurers takes place in the wake of European research into improvisation over the last
    twenty years. Their duo playing reveals, beyond their qualities as instrumentalists, an
    understanding of how to position themselves, how to decode, and when to communicate&#8212;and
    when not to communicate&#8212;instantaneously. Uniting through a fine attentiveness to the
    other, and forming a unit that is thick, fleshy and powerful, but always alert, they let
    themselves be guided by the flow they create by provoking the instant reactions out of which
    are born many changes of atmosphere, tone, theme, and dynamic.&#8221; Th&#233;o Jarrier, Peace
    Warriors.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_044" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_044/">
    <artist>Jean Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/044_AM.gif" />
    <title>Je me souviens; Hommage &#224; Georges Perec; Tu r&#8217;luttes</title>
    <catno>AM 044</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
    <description>Does Georges Perec ring a bell? Born in Paris in 1936, died too young in 1982, he
    was a novelist, film-maker, playwright, essayist, and a member of Oulipo. Now, do you think you
    know Jean Derome? A composer and improvisational wizard, a magnanimous individual, saxophonist
    and multi-instrumentalist, he is also a member of countless music ensembles. Spare time? Jean
    devotes a good part of it to literature. Now the twain shall meet. Derome&#8217;s work for this
    album is inspired by the numerous musical references in Perec&#8217;s book &#171;Je me
    souviens&#187; (I remember). A radio tribute for 13 musicians, the 26 pieces contained herein
    form a potent retrospective of French popular music of the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. From Ray
    Ventura to Henri Salvador; congas, vibraphone, tapdance and y&#233;y&#233;&#8230; Unbelievable.
    As a bonus, we have included &#8220;Tu r&#8217;luttes,&#8221; 17 games for 12 improvisers,
    played by the Ensembles Flamm&#232;ches (Qu&#233;bec) and White Wine Dark Grapes (Belgium). An
    amazing sound zapping!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_048" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_048/">
    <artist>Jean Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/048_AM.gif" />
    <title>La B&#234;te / The Beast Within</title>
    <catno>AM 048</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>For this album, Jean Derome was commissioned by Montr&#233;al&#8217;s O Vertigo
    dance troupe and their production &#8220;The Beast Within,&#8221; directed by Ginette Laurin.
    Here, Derome treats us with an exploration of animalistic qualities, whether in violence,
    sensuality or spirituality. The Beast Within is a fresh, rhythmic album full of changing
    textures, evoking the weaving of fabrics, suspiration, spaces of spectacle such as the cabaret,
    the circus and our urban environment&#8230; Derome&#8217;s music dynamically intermingles
    improvisation and composition while employing, almost exclusively, acoustic instruments for
    their organic and stratingly real presence. La B&#234;te, the Beast Within; music which
    inhabits the body and moves the soul.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_030" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_030/">
    <artist>Jean Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/030_AM.gif" />
    <title>3 musiques pour UBU</title>
    <catno>AM 030</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>33.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>3 musiques pour UBU compiles the near-complete compositions by Jean Derome
    (1990-92) for Denis Marleau&#8217;s Th&#233;&#226;tre UBU.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_064" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_064/">
    <artist>Jean Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/064_AM.gif" />
    <title>Strand, Under the Dark Cloth</title>
    <catno>AM 064</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>After composing for dance (La B&#234;te / The Beast Within) and theatre (3
    musiques pour UBU), the ever-prolific Jean Derome has now made music for cinema with his album
    &#8220;Strand, Under the Dark Cloth.&#8221;Composed in 1988 as the soundtrack to the eponymous
    film by John Walker, this soundtrack is conceived as a &#8220;suite in black and white,&#8221;
    gradually building and developing into a portrait of a photographer, a pioneer and a great
    artist of the twentieth century: Paul Strand. The music for &#8220;Strand, Under the Dark
    Cloth&#8221; is a passacaglia of sorts, whose main melody represents the elegance, grace and
    beauty of Paul Strand&#8217;s work. Orchestrated for a large ensemble of strings, winds,
    percussions and voice, this album bears witness to the impressive range of Jean Derome&#8217;s
    compositional work, an oeuvre resolutely of its time which always manages to thrill us and keep
    us surprised.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_094" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_094/">
    <artist>Jean Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/094_AM.gif" />
    <title>Le magasin de tissu</title>
    <catno>AM 094</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Le magasin de tissu (The Fabric Shop) sews together 69 short textural pieces, all
    completely improvises, in random order. This first solo album is a stamp collection of sound
    colors, a mosaic, a Tower of Babel. 66 sculpted minutes.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_100" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_100/">
    <artist>Jean Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/100_AM.gif" />
    <title>Canot-camping, exp&#233;dition 4</title>
    <catno>AM 100</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Canot-camping is a vast territory filled with &#8220;things to know&#8221; and
    &#8220;things to do,&#8221; animals, birds, lakes and rivers, explored here by 11 skilled
    canoe-improvisers from the lively Montr&#233;al musique actuelle scene. This recording
    constitutes our fourth expedition. It was a pleasant trip since we did not suffer too much
    because of portages, insects, rain or wind and we visited deep, calm lakes under a sometimes
    partially cloudy sky.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_092" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_092/">
    <artist>Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/092_AM.gif" />
    <title>Plinc! Plonc!</title>
    <subtitle>Live aux Soir&#233;es de musique fra&#238;che de Qu&#233;bec</subtitle>
    <catno>AM 092</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay&#8212;two masters of improvisations, two maniacs of
    music, two crackpots of invention&#8212;seem to be doing absolutely everything in this
    plink-plonk festival short of getting up and dancing to their own music. A significant and
    essential testimony about improvised music and the joy Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay
    experience when playing together.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_088" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_088/">
    <artist>Nathalie Derome</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/088_AM.gif" />
    <title>Les 4 ronds sont allum&#233;s</title>
    <subtitle>Chansons parodisiaques</subtitle>
    <catno>AM 088</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>In a short film atmosphere Nathalie Derome performs a few of her songs with
    Guillame Dostaler and Ren&#233; Lussier.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_032" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_032/">
    <artist>Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms</artist>
    <artistdetail>Cartier, Derome, Dostaler, Lussier, Tanguay, Walsh</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/032_AM.gif" />
    <title>Carnets de voyage</title>
    <catno>AM 032</catno>
    <year>1995</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>In 1992, Jean Derome received the Freddie Stone Award for his artistic integrity
    and his contribution to canadian new music for the last twenty years. A composer, interpreter,
    multi-instrumentalist and improviser, he can be found wherever things are happening in
    Montr&#233;al. He is a regular member of a number of groups, mainly &#201;vidence, Le
    tr&#233;sor de la langue, Bruire, Les Granules (all on Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques) as well as
    Lars Hollmer&#8217;s Looping Home Orchestra Live 1992-93; he has also created and recorded
    Confitures de gagaku (released on Victo label). Not content of this already crowded track
    record, we are here presented &#8220;Carnets de voyage,&#8221; the first recording of Jean
    Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms, recorded in concerts around Montr&#233;al in March 94. This
    electrifying CD bears witness to the extraordinary creativity of the Dangereux Zhoms and the
    amounts of pleasure these excellent musicians have playing together. The 11 pieces comprising
    Carnets de Voyage were all written by Jean Derome, in trains and hotel rooms, airports and
    planes, during various Canadian and European tours with Fred Frith, Ren&#233; Lussier and Lars
    Hollmer.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_038" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_038/">
    <artist>Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms</artist>
    <artistdetail>Cartier, Derome, Dostaler, Lussier, Tanguay, Walsh</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/038_AM.gif" />
    <title>Navr&#233;</title>
    <catno>AM 038</catno>
    <year>1996</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Navr&#233; is a sequel to Carnets de voyage, the previous Dangereux Zhoms outing,
    released in November 1994. It once again features a collection of pieces composed by Jean
    Derome, all written on his spiral notebooks while on tour. And as with any travel, the music
    found herein is full of surprises, rapid and unexpected changes, quick turns, movement, life!
    Each of the 8 pieces of this album takes us to a different universe, leads us quickly from one
    place, one atmosphere, one emotion to another, all with remarkable vivaciousness. &#171;Les
    Dangereux Zhoms is an explosive mix of 6 very different musical personalities, 6 colours which
    complete each other in a truly vivid and invigorating way. If I myself had Lussier&#8217;s
    precision, Cartier&#8217;s intensity, Tanguay&#8217;s vitality, Dostaler&#8217;s concentration
    and Walsh&#8217;s wit, I would not have had to create this group. Each interpreter takes an
    active part in the composition by modifying the phrasing, the dynamics, the shape and the
    choice of the improvisation at any moment. Each piece becomes a game. As in chess, it obeys
    specific rules and is constantly renewing itself. My job as composer and director is to create
    a common ground favourable to the birth of something very rare and very beautiful, namely,
    music. To all interested parties, the group is blossoming!&#187; &#8212;Jean
    Derome.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_061" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_061/">
    <artist>Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms</artist>
    <artistdetail>Cartier, Derome, Dostaler, Lussier, Tanguay, Walsh</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/061_AM.gif" />
    <title>Torticolis</title>
    <catno>AM 061</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The third album from Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms, &#8220;Torticolis&#8221;
    was also born from Jean Derome&#8217;s travel diary, a personal journal made of musical
    feelings taken on table corners during his many tours. This repertoire-territory is
    investigated by 6 well seasoned Dangereux Zhoms, who are not afraid of getting lost or found
    because they are relentless inventors and masters of time: resourceful, crazy, subversive,
    these water diviners, hunters, researchers and finders and most of all wonderful musicians
    comprise an outstanding band that we can&#8217;t seem to get enough of.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_901" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_901/">
    <artist>Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms</artist>
    <artistdetail>Cartier, Derome, Dostaler, Lussier, Tanguay, Walsh</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/901_AM.gif" />
    <title>1994-96</title>
    <subtitle>3 CD: Carnets de voyage; Navr&#233;; Torticolis</subtitle>
    <catno>AM 901</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>3xCD</code>
      <availability>temp. out of stock</availability>
    </format>
    <description>A first for Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques: a specially priced box set bringing
    together all three CDs from Jean Derome and his band, Les Dangereux Zhoms: Carnets de voyage,
    Navr&#233; and Torticolis.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_172" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_172/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms</artist>
    <artistdetail>Cartier, Derome, Dostaler, Tanguay, Walsh</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/172_AM.gif" />
    <title>To Continue</title>
    <catno>AM 172</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>DZ&#8217;s new album To Continue (2007) takes the group&#8217;s unique features
    further: cohabitation between layers of scored music and free improvisation, polyphony,
    polyrhythms, irregular meters, complex forms, rich harmonies and polymodalism. To Continue
    presents eight new Derome originals, all given top-rate performances bursting with creativity,
    tightness, drive, and fire. The Dangereux Zhoms are currently reaffirming their jazz roots,
    while maintaining a radical discipline of collective improvisation and sonic experimentation.
    The Dangereux Zhoms are balancing imagination, humor, and physical playing. Their music is full
    of intense improvised passages and catchy tunes. It makes the music completely unclassifiable,
    which agrees very well with the group&#8217;s leader. As Derome said to Coda in 1995:
    &#8220;I&#8217;m playing music. Not jazz or any other genre per se; only music, period.&#8221;
    In Exclaim!, Richard Moule described the musicians in this ensemble as &#8220;adventurous
    players who gracefully jump, straddle, and zigzag along every corner of the musical realm.
    Avant-rock, jazz styles ranging from Free to Bop and Cool, contemporary academic music, and
    funk only serve as springboards for their impish and creative excursions.&#8221; Jean Derome et
    les Dangereux Zhoms was formed in 1992 for the opening concert of the 10th Festival
    international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV). The group gave many concerts in
    Montr&#233;al and Qu&#233;bec, and in major Canadian cities, in addition to appearing at around
    10 international festivals (Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, USA). In 2001, Jean
    Derome was awarded an Opus Award from the Conseil qu&#233;b&#233;cois de la musique, for his
    international career, both on record and on stage. The ensemble&#8217;s repertoire includes
    over 60 Derome originals, 25 of which appear on their first three albums: Carnets de voyage
    (1994), Navr&#233; (1995), and Torticolis (1998).</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_065" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_065/">
    <artist>Patrice Desbiens</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/065_AM.gif" />
    <title>Patrice Desbiens et Les moyens du bord</title>
    <catno>AM 065</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <detail>+ 1 book</detail>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
    <description>The compact disc combines for the first time twenty-two poems written and
    interpreted by Patrice Desbiens, with music improvised by Jean Derome, Guillaume Dostaler,
    Ren&#233; Lussier and Pierre Tanguay and recorded on March 18th 1996. &#8220;Patrice Desbiens
    et les Moyens du Bord&#8221; has been produced and directed by veteran guitar explorer
    Ren&#233; Lussier who then declared: &#8220;And then it struck me&#8212;right out of my chair!
    As I struggled back up I realized: Patrice is an incredible poet. To record him while reciting
    his poems became essential.&#8221; All the poems are taken out of different books written
    between 1974 and 1995. The texts are featured integrally, housed in an original spiral-bound
    book designed by Paul Gr&#233;goire.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_002" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_002/">
    <artist>Andr&#233; Duchesne</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/002_AM.gif" />
    <title>Le temps des bombes</title>
    <catno>AM 002</catno>
    <year>1984</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>First album released by Andr&#233; Duchesne after the Conventum adventure, Le
    temps des bombes (1984) is a multifaceted collection of songs illuminated by modern
    counterpoints with a progressive rock edge. An invitation to hear Duchesne&#8217;s fantastic
    and whimsical poetry, supported by an ensemble of excellent musicians. Caustic, satirical
    texts, poems dedicated to Van Gogh, fabulous allegories told by Duchesne&#8217;s warm and
    engaging voice, and accompanied by well-articulated strings and inventive persussion. An album
    revealing the strength and the breadth of this composer&#8217;s work. A must from Ambiances
    Magn&#233;tiques, finally available on CD.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_019" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_019/">
    <artist>Andr&#233; Duchesne</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/019_AM.gif" />
    <title>Le royaume ou l&#8217;asile</title>
    <catno>AM 019</catno>
    <year>1990</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Andr&#233; Duchesne has created this music for the film Le Royaume ou
    l&#8217;Asile, directed by Jean and Serge Gagn&#233;. The soundtrack itself creates distinct
    images through a flow of illusions of many different sound colours. Music, sound effects,
    voices and songs, this album suggests a voyage celebrating the beauty of the Saguenay&#8217;s
    fiords and brings us in s world of illusions. Duchesne&#8217;s music has been coloring and
    haunting the soudtracks of many Quebec movie directors: Andr&#233; Forcier, Fernand
    B&#233;langer and the Gagn&#233; brothers. Electric jack-of-all trades, iconoclastic musician,
    Duchesne is, above all, a talented composer.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_072" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_072/">
    <artist>Andr&#233; Duchesne</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/072_AM.gif" />
    <title>R&#233;flexions</title>
    <catno>AM 072</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The classical guitar slept in its old case. The one which has followed me in all
    my solitary travels. You see outside but you look inside. Lunatic music, at random. Home music,
    pensive and meditative. A reflection on life. A moment in a life when what is fundamental
    questions our relationship with music. A nervous arrival at the studio. I could have recorded
    all this at home with the dripping faucet and the fridge. Calm, magic of the alcove. And now,
    the territory of the guitar reveals itself, the fingers tracing Their paths along the strings.
    The guitar speaks to you, unravels its notes like the reflections of a companion as it walks,
    in its infinite variations. Thought takes flight and leaves the space. It pretends to be an
    orchestra, throwing its notes upon the lakes. This chord which slips between the fingers like a
    habit. Someone comes into the room for a moment. She speaks to you of Spain, of elsewhere. In
    the puddle, the world looks backwards. The heart hurts. And these fingernails which scratch the
    strings. The motifs interlace, In the water of the microphones. That&#8217;s it, it&#8217;s
    begun to sing. Listen now! It&#8217;s speaking to you. Andr&#233; Duchesne, April
    1999</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_093" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_093/">
    <artist>Andr&#233; Duchesne</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/093_AM.gif" />
    <title>Polaro&#239;de</title>
    <catno>AM 093</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>In constant danger a slender wire, a free concerto crafted with passion, a
    complete and unabridged series of snapshots, devoid of artifice, on the iron
    wire.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_155" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_155/">
    <artist>Andr&#233; Duchesne</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/155_AM.gif" />
    <title>Cordes &#224; danser&#8230; suite saguenayenne</title>
    <catno>AM 155</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <distinctions>Top 20 disques de l'ann&#233;e 2006. D&#233;lire actuel, CFLX FM,
    Qu&#233;bec</distinctions>
    <description>Andr&#233; Duchesne's Cordes &#224; danser is an impressionistic rock suite of 12
    instrumental pictures inspired by the landscapes among which he spent his childhood, in the
    industrial atmosphere of the Saguenay. One could see the relationship between quartet and trio
    as the reunion of a triangle and a square. One moves forward like an arrow or a ship, while the
    other develops and builds. Composition and improvisation. Dragged by three horses, the buggy
    rolls on through landscapes of bauxite lakes, factory chimneys and energy powers. You look at
    the sky and think it's gonna rain cats and dogs.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_130" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_130/">
    <artist>Paul Dutton</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/130_AM.gif" />
    <title>Oralizations</title>
    <catno>AM 130</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Richly textured multiphonic vocal virtuosity, laced with rasps, rumbles, honks,
    howls, and wheezes, featured in freely improvised and formally structured solos, with flights
    of verbal invention added into the mix&#8212;Oralizations offers works spanning Paul
    Dutton&#8217;s more than thirty years of bursting the bonds of convention, testing the extremes
    of voice and verbalization, and blurring the borders between literature and
    music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_117" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_117/">
    <artist>L&#8217;Ensemble Pierre Labb&#233;</artist>
    <artistdetail>Alarie, Bonin, Falaise, Labb&#233;, Lavergne, Trudeau</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/117_AM.gif" />
    <title>Risque et pendule</title>
    <catno>AM 117</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The Ensemble Pierre Labb&#233;&#8217;s first album for the label Ambiances
    Magn&#233;tiques,Risque et pendule offers a fusion of avant-garde jazz and
    contemporary/classical music. Featuring some of the most dynamic and versatile musicians from
    those fields, the Ensemble Pierre Labb&#233; delivers a first-rate musical performance. The
    ensemble&#8217;s process is based on a search for balance between written music and
    improvisation. Their compositional concern steps away from the developments found in
    conventional jazz (theme-chorus-theme) to focus instead on a cohabitation between composition
    and improvisation. Organic and sensitive, the album Risque et pendule presents nine pieces that
    make judicious leaps across stylistic boundaries. You will pick up the warmth of jazz, the
    refinement of contemporary music, the energy of rock and the wildness of musique actuelle.
    Quite a ride!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_124" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_124/">
    <artist>Ensemble SuperMusique</artist>
    <artistdetail>H&#233;tu, Labrosse, Roger</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/124_AM.gif" />
    <title>Canevas &#171;+&#187;</title>
    <catno>AM 124</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Improvised music, composed music, an improvisation framework: a sound patchwork. A
    collage made from 14 excerpts taken from five different concerts by Ensemble SuperMusique
    presented between 1998 and 2004. A shape-shifting ensemble solely devoted to the performance of
    new music works and improvisation, L&#8217;Ensemble SuperMusique is comprised of musicians who
    have developed, over the last two decades, a very deep and significant understanding of the
    vocabulary of new music. They are masters of the genre. The Canevas &#171;+&#187;
    musicians&#8217; original compositions and live spur-of-the-moment performances highlight the
    Ensemble&#8217;s flexibility and audacity.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_086" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_086/">
    <artist>Bernard Falaise</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/086_AM.gif" />
    <title>Do</title>
    <catno>AM 086</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Guitarist from Klaxon Gueule, Les Projectionnistes as well as countless
    Montr&#233;al-based actuelle scene projects, this is Falaise&#8217;s debut solo album. A study
    in ubiquity: 15 pieces for guitar ensembles, one guitarist! Plenty of overdubbings and digital
    processing for added measure. Surprisingly varied and intense.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_174" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_174/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Bernard Falaise</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/174_AM.gif" />
    <title>Clic</title>
    <catno>AM 174</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Clic consists in a group of six pieces written in the studio. The musicians never
    actually performed this music together; they recorded their overdubs one by one. Most of the
    material had been composed beforehand, but part of it came to be in reaction to what the
    musicians were playing, occasionally through improvisation. With Clic, what I wanted to do was
    to experiment with unusual metronomic applications. For instance, the ever-changing tempo in
    Y&#233;ti; the superimposed tempi in Mule, Thon, Neuf, and F&#234;te; the tempo changes in
    Neuf, etc. Also, Watt and Clic feature two-part canons, each with its own tempo. Most of this
    music would be near impossible to perform live. It was written specifically for a record. I
    like the idea that the record is to cinema what the concert is to theatre. Filming a play
    rarely makes a good movie. In the course of this record, you will find (more or less obvious)
    tributes to and winks at the following musicians: Aksak Maboul, Anthony Braxton, Captain
    Beefheart, Franco Donatoni, Les Granules, Conlon Nancarrow, Igor Stravinsky, and Robert Wyatt.
    (BF)</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_089" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_089/">
    <artist>Bernard Falaise, Normand Guilbeault, Robert Marcel Lepage</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/089_AM.gif" />
    <title>Joue Free</title>
    <catno>AM 089</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>With a personal, elegant nonetheless gripping touch, Joue Free pays a tribute to
    the American clarinettist Jimmy Giuffre, proponent of the &#8220;Chamber Jazz&#8221; and the
    &#8220;Folk Blues&#8221; in the 60&#8217;s.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_169" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_169/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Fenaison</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/169_AM.gif" />
    <title>Plat</title>
    <catno>AM 169</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Fenaison is a group committed to the making of new music that is texturally
    driven, improvised, exploratory, and boundary crossing. Performing with intuition, ingenuity,
    and integrity, Fenaison pushes the limits of the anticipated and the accepted with their
    dynamic and intensely unique performances. Members of the ensemble come from such diverse
    backgrounds as classical composition, noise music, contemporary performance, improvisation,
    electronic music and jazz. This ensemble has been heralded as both exciting and innovative.
    &#8221;Listening to Fenaison reminds me why I enjoy improvisation. They make music that is
    passionate, mysterious, and full of contradictions - careful and abandoned, melodic and noisy,
    peaceful and edgy, logical and surprising - music that doesn&#8217;t make sense. In other
    words, it&#8217;s alive! And well...&#8221; (Fred Frith)</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_103" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_103/">
    <artist>Lori Freedman</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/103_AM.gif" />
    <title>&#192; un moment donn&#233;</title>
    <catno>AM 103</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>On this disc soloist Lori Freedman presents thirteen new improvised pieces for
    soprano and bass clarinets that were recorded at Radio-Canada&#8217;s Studio 12 in the spring
    of 2002. Imposing an unbridled rhythm on her clarinets, this alchemist-musician invites us into
    a surprising world in which the music is allowed to develop on its own, vibrant and
    captivating. Propelling, in the fervour of the moment&#8212;a very exact moment&#8212;music
    that abounds in textures both complex and refined, she constructs a non-linear sound universe
    that is very close to the bizarre revelations travelled in dreams, furiously original, studded
    with frenzied, fleeting flashes. Born in Toronto, Lori Freedman followed the twin paths of
    contemporary written and improvised music. A virtuoso on both the soprano and bass clarinets
    and a performer of more than 40 works composed especially for her, Lori Freedman is renowned as
    one of Canada&#8217;s most creative musicians. She received a Freddie Stone Award in 1998 for
    her contribution to the advancement of creative music, and her first solo disc, Huskless
    (Artifact 020), earned her a nomination at the Prairie Music Awards in 2000 for Best Classical
    Recording. She has composed works for soloists and for ensembles, for dance, for theatre, and
    for film. Lori Freedman has taken up a post as composer in residence at the Banff
    Centre&#8217;s Leighton Studios for the Arts in the autumn of 2002, after which she will
    present a series of concerts on a North America tour.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_157" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_157/">
    <artist>Lori Freedman</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/157_AM.gif" />
    <title>3</title>
    <catno>AM 157</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>For me, the trio is the ideal formation for improvising music. In general, even
    numbers imply something known, where odd numbers feel open. &#8220;2&#8221; can create corners
    that &#8220;3&#8221; can melt down, transform. &#8220;3&#8221; is complete, continuous and
    infinite. Dynamics move stasis. It&#8217;s playful. For 3 consecutive nights I brought together
    in concert 3 distinct trios, with 6 other Montr&#233;al musicians each chosen for their fertile
    imagination and identifiable musical style. This disc is made primarily from these live
    encounters recorded during the heatwave of June 2, 3 and 4, 2005 at the Bistro Le Va-et-Vient
    in Montr&#233;al. Certain musical passages were later re-worked in the studio to
    &#8220;compose&#8221; other sonic and textural elements. This latter development was made
    possible thanks to the magical and mega-inspirational mind of Michel F
    C&#244;t&#233;.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_175" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_175/" new="yes" recent="yes">
    <artist>Fred Frith, Danielle Palardy Roger</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/175_AM.gif" />
    <title>Pas de deux</title>
    <catno>AM 175</catno>
    <year>2008</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>This meeting with Fred Frith was a jubilation from start to finish. One of those
    precious moments where trust rules and energy flows. We had never played together, but it was
    bound to happen. The initial impetus for this duo came from a Carte blanche offered by Pierre
    Dumont of the Festival des musiques de cr&#233;ation in Saguenay. To me, it seemed appropriate
    to honor that Carte blanche with this project with Fred. And as long as we were dragging him to
    Qu&#233;bec, we had to take the opportunity to present this &#8220;rare&#8221; duo in
    Montr&#233;al, at La Sala Rossa. This CD is not the faithful reproduction of one of these
    concerts, but a collage featuring highlights from both evenings. Fred and I have mixed and
    edited separately, from the live recordings. I have worked from a superimposition of the two
    concerts, while Fred worked on stripping them down. Since I did not have the distance necessary
    to make the final editing decisions, I asked DAME label&#8217;s honcho (and my dear friend and
    super-colleague) Joane H&#233;tu to bring the CD project to a close. So here you have a work of
    excellent audio quality that faithfully communicates the energy and telepathy Fred and I
    experienced together. &#8212; Danielle Palardy Roger</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_051" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_051/">
    <artist>Fred Frith Guitar Quartet</artist>
    <artistdetail>Didkovsky, Frith, Lussier, Stewart</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/051_AM.gif" />
    <title>Ayaya Moses</title>
    <catno>AM 051</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>What more can be said of Fred Frith? As with all musicians and composers of his
    caliber, he is a relentless inventor. His quartet, formed in 1990, highlights one of the
    quintessential instruments of &#171;musique actuelle&#187;, the electric guitar. Its first CD
    on Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques, Ayaya Moses features works by Claude Vivier and Olivia Bignardi,
    as well as original compositions by each member, scored for the quartet. Ten journeys through
    contrasting topographies, whether rigorously scored or spontaneously dreamed up, exploiting the
    resources of the electric guitar to the fullest imaginable degree, and featuring the kind of
    ensemble precision and dynamics usually associated with string quartets and chamber ensembles -
    but with unrelenting rock energy!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_063" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_063/">
    <artist>Fred Frith Guitar Quartet</artist>
    <artistdetail>Didkovsky, Frith, Lussier, Stewart</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/063_AM.gif" />
    <title>Upbeat</title>
    <catno>AM 063</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Anyone who&#8217;s attended a concert of the FFGQ can attest to the qualities that
    make them such a unique institution, one that&#8217;s far beyond mere virtuosity. Individually
    and collectively, the FFGQ displays innumerable qualities of concentration, versatility,
    unpredictability, as well as a disarming sense of humour which may erupt at any moment. What
    better way to celebrate the group&#8217;s tenth year of existence than this collection of live
    recordings from their 1997 European tour, a breathless narrative that unfolds with relentless
    drive and charm while touching down at a typically wide range of destinations.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_066" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_066/">
    <artist>Malcolm Goldstein, John Heward, Rainer Wiens</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/066_AM.gif" />
    <title>Chants cach&#233;s</title>
    <catno>AM 066</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>A trio formed of Rainer Wiens, John Heward, and Malcolm Goldstein on guitar,
    drums, and violin respectively, now present their first album &#8220;Chants cach&#233;s.&#8221;
    This is to be filed under uncharted improvised music. &#8220;These three musicians have played
    together often and it shows. There is a real complicity at work in this free music, a
    friendship beneath this sonic alchemy. A complete symbiosis between the three musicians
    improvising rigorous and authentic free, moulding sound not only in its discursive, linguistic,
    and conversational elements but also in the very core of its matter. These are not three
    soloists exhibiting their speed or their technical know-how. On the contrary, this dense and
    expressionist music is collective above all else, radical, demanding both for the musicians and
    the audience. Music about giving in which everyone must contribute something.&#8221;
    &#8212;Raymond Gervais</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_005" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_005/">
    <artist>Les Granules</artist>
    <artistdetail>Derome, Lussier</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/005_AM.gif" />
    <title>Soyez vigilants, restez vivants&#8230;</title>
    <catno>AM 005</catno>
    <year>1986</year>
    <format>
      <code>LP</code>
      <price>22.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>A hybrid of many a musical tradition. Inuit-spiritual, reel-rock, Christmas
    carols, Salvation Army tunes&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_006" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_006/">
    <artist>Les Granules</artist>
    <artistdetail>Derome, Lussier</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/006_AM.gif" />
    <title>Le retour des granules</title>
    <catno>AM 006</catno>
    <year>1988</year>
    <format>
      <code>LP</code>
      <price>22.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>In homage to ash, sand, dust and chaff, powder, pollen and crumbs.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_018" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_018/">
    <artist>Les Granules</artist>
    <artistdetail>Derome, Lussier</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/018_AM.gif" />
    <title>Au royaume du silencieux</title>
    <catno>AM 018</catno>
    <year>1992</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Les Granules: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been working together, composing, interpreting
    and improvising since 1978. We impose no stylistic restrictions on ourselves and believe that
    beauty can be had in the incongruous coming together of stories and ideas. Our collaboration
    has always been based on the work of the man-orchestra, the integration of sound tapes, an
    almost cinematographic vision of musical series and a broad stylistic field extending from
    improvised music to folk, and from contemporary music to rock. Au royaume du silencieux is our
    third album. The pieces have been recorded in real time with no overdubbing. The resulting
    sound is rougher than our earlier records. Each composed or improvised piece was studiously
    restructured through collage. Slight differences in pulse, tuning as well as subtle shifts in
    tempo or from one recording to another, have been left evident rather than hidden thus creating
    a mosaic or quilted effect.&#8221;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_129" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_129/">
    <artist>Paul Gr&#233;goire</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/129_AM.gif" />
    <title>Douleur sourde</title>
    <catno>AM 129</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Ambiances Magn&#233;tiques presents the debut album from sculptor, musician and
    performing artist Paul Gr&#233;goire. "Douleur Sourde" is a CD of songs. The music is slow and
    melodious, and often borrowed from a known repertoire. Lyrics are unique, occasionally
    anecdotal, always sensitive, and present a certain level of reflection on social matters and a
    touch of humor, while remaining dark. Paul&#8217;s backing musicians are: Drae Rival and his
    highly unique guitar playing, with unusual and unexpected chords; drummer Jonas Slowenski,
    whose philosophical slowness could not better match the spirit of the album; Ren&#233; Lussier,
    who plays all the instruments in two songs: he handles guitar, bass, percussion, feet, and
    whistling; Paul Hubert&#8217;s vitality, his extremely energetic guitar playing; Fred
    Boudreault who, with his doublebass, contributes to the gloomy, rumbling side of the music;
    Jean Derome, responsible for the beautiful and delicate arrangements and also one gripping
    solo; and finally Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, who plays drums on almost every song, but who also
    coordinated the project and without whom this album would not exist today. A multidisciplinary
    artist, Paul Gr&#233;goire has been active in the fields of sculpture, music, literature, and
    performance since 1970. Naturally, he took care of the album sleeve, which includes a booklet
    with lyrics and illustrations for all the songs. "I wanted to leave my mark, but like with
    certain exhibitions or performances put together to sum things up, I needed to complete a cycle
    and summarize a few years of pleasure and work in music." -Paul Gr&#233;goire. Douleur sourde
    is a unique, moving, unclassifiable album.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_073" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_073/">
    <artist>Normand Guilbeault</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/073_AM.gif" />
    <title>Riel, Plaidoyer musical / Musical Plea</title>
    <catno>AM 073</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>33.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>On the eve of the 114th anniversary of the hanging of the Franco-Manitoban
    M&#233;tis leader Louis Riel in Regina on 16 November 1885, double bass player Normand
    Guilbeault is launching his 2-CD work entitled Riel, Plaidoyer musical / Musical Plea, recorded
    in February at the Lion d&#8217;Or in Montr&#233;al. The result of four years of diligent
    research, Riel, Plaidoyer musical / Musical Plea sheds new light on one of the little-known and
    most controversial episodes in Canadian history. Accompanying the discs is a 72-page booklet
    that includes archival photographs of the period and texts, in English and French, by Louis
    Riel, Gabriel Dumont, commander of the M&#233;tis forces, Louis Schmidt, principal secretary to
    Riel, and P&#232;re Andr&#233;, who ministered to Riel during his last night. With Riel,
    Plaidoyer musical / Musical Plea, Normand Guilbeault and his large group of outstanding
    musicians invite us to discover a historical and musical epic set on the Manitoban frontier.
    Original compositions, native chants, gigues, reels, songs of the period, military marches and
    improvisation are woven to create the fabric of a vibrant work that combines politics and
    poetry. Music, chants, political texts and poetry surprise, delight and assert without
    compromise.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_037" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_037/">
    <artist>Joane H&#233;tu</artist>
    <artistdetail>Castor et compagnie</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/037_AM.gif" />
    <title>Castor et compagnie</title>
    <catno>AM 037</catno>
    <year>1995</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Joane H&#233;tu signs here a first CD of her own music and texts, Castor et
    compagnie, with longtime accomplices Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse and Pierre Tanguay. Castor et
    compagnie is a cycle of songs for lovers of senses, sense and sounds, noise and lyricism,
    pleasure and erotism. The lyrics were inspired by the vocabulary of Hindu erotic books, Arabic
    love games and a few saucy songs. The music is daring and energetic, made of turbulent
    atmospheres, evocative lullabies and even love songs. Joane H&#233;tu is best known as a member
    of early AM female supergroups Justine, Wondeur Brass and Les Poules. An inventive composer,
    improviser and saxophonist, H&#233;tu has always been exploring and developping a musical style
    of her own: a harsh, guttural voice flirting with a modern lyricism tainted with original
    textures, strident sounds and atonal harmonies. She is at her best with this difficult, yet
    sensuous expression of poetry that has the intelligence of its music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_062" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_062/">
    <artist>Joane H&#233;tu</artist>
    <artistdetail>Castor et compagnie</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/062_AM.gif" />
    <title>Mets ta langue</title>
    <catno>AM 062</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>For the last six years, Joane H&#233;tu, formerly of Justine and countless other
    Montr&#233;al-based groups, has been directing the Castor et compagnie ensemble, a group
    devoted to exploring vocal musical forms. They are now offering us their second album titled
    &#8220;Mets ta langue.&#8221; (litterally, &#8220;Put your tongue&#8221;) What to expect:
    erotic songs, love songs, french songs, spoken songs, uncool, intelligent, touching songs,
    tumultuous and lively; improvisations to sing along to&#8230; A warm repertoire of honeylike
    sound, with bite, sweat, noise and poetry. A vocal tutti celebrating love, eroticism and
    life.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_077" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_077/">
    <artist>Joane H&#233;tu</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/077_AM.gif" />
    <title>Seule dans les chants</title>
    <catno>AM 077</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Seule dans les chants, Joane H&#233;tu&#8217;s first solo album, for alto sax and
    voice, offers an intimate journey into her musical world, where the juxtaposition of sounds
    reveals an infinitely personal language out of which comes a genuine music-of-being. Created
    and produced by Joane H&#233;tu, her disturbing, resolutely contemporary album allows us to
    discover these songs from the mouth and from the wind. Seule dans les chants is a poetry of
    sound for an imaginary space.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="am_091" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/am_091/">
    <artist>Joane H&#233;tu</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/091_AM.gif" />
    <title>Musique d&#8217;hiver</title>
    <catno>AM 091</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>A recent release from the ever-prolific Joane H&#233;tu, the work "Musique
    d&#8217;hiver" (winter music) pays tribute to the frisky Nordic winds, the blinding luminosity
    of winter, the February moon, and the craziness of March, in order to communicate the emotional
    effervescence of winter. A 66-minute piece in four scenes (La chute, On se les g&#232;le,
    Lumi&#232;re de f&#233;vrier, J&#8217;ai perdu le nord), "Musique d&#8217;hiver" is arranged
    for acoustic instruments &#8212; piano, voice, flutes, alto sax, accordion, percussion &#8212;
    and electric instruments &#8212; synthesizer, sampler, and tape manipulation. It is an
    invitation to a music ritual for a season of frost and high winds