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<label id="amim" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/boutique/amim/">
  <name>Association des musiciens improvisateurs de Montr&#233;al (AMIM)</name>
  <shortname>AMIM</shortname>
  <recording id="amim_9411" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/amim_9411/">
    <artist>Michel Ratt&#233;</artist>
    <artistdetail>Beaudet, Trio Michel Ratt&#233;, Wreck&#8217;s Progress</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/9411_AMIM.gif" />
    <title>Passages et d&#233;rives</title>
    <catno>AMIM 9411</catno>
    <year>1994</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Following his debut album, Musique ~ Id&#233;e, released in 1990, Michel
    Ratt&#233; now presents his second CD called Passages et D&#233;rives (&#8220;Passages and
    Driftings&#8221;), on his AMIM label. A drummer and percussionnist, Michel Ratt&#233;
    introduces a highly singular, unexpectedly deep approach to his music, which draws from the
    Afro-American tradition as well as the unusual approaches to current-day improvistion (notably
    European currents), while never subscribing to either camp (or any camp we&#8217;ve heard of,
    for that matter). Passages et D&#233;rives feature eight pieces that question the gesture of
    improvisation and surpass the contradiction inherent in the relationship between spontaneity
    and reflection. This CD also illustrates the passage (and drifting) from one singular improv
    project to another: starting with the Trio Michel Ratt&#233; and Jean Beaudet to the cerebral
    mess of Wreck&#8217;s Progress. Also included is a 28-page booklet (with English translation)
    written by Ratt&#233;, in which he eloquently clarifies the context of this exploratory
    music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="amim_9810" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/amim_9810/">
    <artist>Wreck&#8217;s Progress</artist>
    <artistdetail>Charuest, Patry, Ratt&#233;</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/9810_AMIM.gif" />
    <title>Wreck&#8217;s Progress: Catalogue (vol. 1)</title>
    <catno>AMIM 9810</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Wreck&#8217;s Progress (W&#8217;sP) is an improvised music ensemble directed by
    percussionnist/drummer Michel Ratt&#233;. Since 1993 W&#8217;sP is devoted to the creation of a
    &#8220;new improvised music&#8221; born out of a thorough reflection on the meaning of
    spontaneous composition form. Beyond improvised music as the moment&#8217;s poetry and the
    symbolism of radical freedom, but not forgetting these two poles, here is W&#8217;sP&#8217;s
    creativity at its pinnacle. We haven&#8217;t heard W&#8217;sP on CD since their very beginning
    when three tracks were released on Michel Ratt&#233;&#8217;s CD Passages et d&#233;rives
    (1994). Catalogue (vol. 1) fulfills this lack with a series of at least four CDs to be released
    in the coming years. The tracks have been selected from hours of recordings, accumulated since
    1995.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
