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  <name>No Type</name>
  <shortname>No Type</shortname>
  <recording id="imnt_0306" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0306/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <artistdetail>Balai M&#233;canique, Burns, Caloia, &#8217;Gypt Gore, Heward, Po</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0306_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Montr&#233;al Free</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0306/09</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>4xCD</code>
      <price>40.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
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    <description>4 groups, 4 full-length CDs: that&#8217;s the groundbreaking concept behind this
    specially priced box set from No Type to celebrate the burgeoning and already quite bewildering
    Montr&#233;al free improv scene. Montr&#233;al Free is not intended as a complete anthology of
    all that is happening in this bristling city, but rather as a persistent snapshot of what one
    might hear at the Casa del Popolo on boulevard Saint-Laurent, where these musicians and others
    regularly astound audiences. Thanks to this unique box set, you can now listen to these magical
    spontaneous constructions in the comfort of your own home. All you&#8217;ll be missing is the
    pint of cream ale. Although recorded in studio for the occasion, the four groups featured on
    this 4CD release are quite representative of the new sound of Montr&#233;al live improv:
    fiercer, rawer, oscillating between the atmospheric and the confrontational, and relentlessly
    inventive. The audacity of the younger performers is matched by the sheer musical insight of
    the more experienced musicians. A collective match made in heaven--or is it hell? With
    Montr&#233;al Free, we are happy to offer the world with the first comprehensive, immersive
    excursion into the smoky backstreets of the North American Capital of Sin. Because there is far
    more to Montr&#233;al than smoked meat&#8230; Featuring: Thierry Amar (GY!BE, Molasses), Chris
    Burns, Nicolas Caloia, Andrew Dickson, Will Glass, Jacques Gravel, John Heward, Jesse Levine,
    Phil&#233;mon (Napalm Jazz), Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect), Alexandre St-Onge (Klaxon Gueule,
    Shalabi Effect) and Rainer Wiens. Cover paintings by John Heward. Inside art by Andrew Dickson
    and Billy Mavreas. Liner notes by Mathieu B&#233;langer. Since December 2005, each disc
    (Provocative Operations, &#8217;Gypt Gore, Presence, Balai M&#233;canique) is available
    individually, in very limited quantity.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0715" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0715/" recent="yes">
    <artist>A_dontigny</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0715_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Geisteswissenschaften</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0715</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
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    <distinctions>&#8226; Prix Opus 2006-07: Disque de l&#8217;ann&#233;e &#8212;
    finaliste</distinctions>
    <description>&#8220;Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae
    and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall&#8217;s fall - i.e., when damn near
    everything presents itself as familiar &#8212; it&#8217;s not a surprise that some of
    today&#8217;s most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. [...]
    Whatever charge of tastelessness or trademark violation may be attached to the artistic
    appropriation of the media environment in which we swim, the alternative &#8212; to flinch, or
    tiptoe away into some ivory tower of irrelevance &#8212; is far worse.&#8221; (Foster Wallace,
    as &#8220;plagiarized&#8221; by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence, Harper&#8217;s
    Magazine, February 2007) This first solo CD by composer A_dontigny (morceaux_de_machines,
    Napalm Jazz, Ensemble Camp&#8230;) has been deliberately conceived to be in the margins of
    electroacoustic music, electronica and audio art. Thought up as a series of short sarcastic
    vignettes, Geisteswissenschaften skilfully manipulates common aesthetic postures in order to
    create a sound mosaic where one can find hints at modern art history and philosophy. To an
    arsenal of cut-and-paste and cut-ups, to which we may include encoding glitches and all matter
    of samples and quotes, A_dontigny adds the sonic interventions of three of his usual
    collaborators: Paul Dolden (electric cello, guitar and bass), Diane Labrosse (sampler) et Jon
    Vaughn (remix). An ode to freedom? A manifest against all dogmas? That&#8217;ll depend on the
    mood of the listener. In the end, Geisteswissenschaften wishes to be a celebration of
    independance of spirit and human intelligence, one of those rare works that continue to be
    nourished by great hopes.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_081" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_081/">
    <artist>A_dontigny, Diane Labrosse</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/081_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>T&#233;l&#233;pathie</title>
    <catno>IMNT 081</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Recorded live on April 20, 2002 under the original title &#8220;Fragments,
    segments, s&#233;quences,&#8221; here is a surprising new collaboration between A_dontigny
    (Napalm Jazz, morceaux_de_machines) and Diane Labrosse (known for her previous projects with
    Ikue Mori, Martin T&#233;treault, Zeena Parkins, Les Poules, etc.) Both have brought in unheard
    tones yielding an uncommon ground even for these musicians known for their extreme versatility.
    Between them, a formidable, diabolically telepathic understanding. A rare and exceptional
    meeting between two all-terrain improvisers who here treat sonic matter with much tact,
    overflowing with inventivity.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0203" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0203/">
    <artist>Magali Babin</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0203_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Chemin de fer</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0203</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Chemin de fer is Magali Babin&#8217;s debut CD, though she is already well-known
    as one of the key players of improvised music and sound art in Montr&#233;al. A prominent live
    artist, Magali has performed in Montr&#233;al (Casa del Popolo, Silophone, SuperMicMac&#8230;),
    Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia,. She is a favorite of the respected Radio-Canada
    radioshow Le navire Night where her performances are regularly broadcast. Magali has played
    alongside Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, Martin T&#233;treault, Alexandre St-Onge, Ian Nagoski (US),
    Jon Rose (UK), to name a few. The 9 pieces on this CD were recorded in the studios of
    Radio-Canada with Mario Gauthier, executive producer and host of L&#8217;espace du son. Citing
    financial constraints, Radio-Canada cancelled the programme before the music could be heard on
    radio, but the recording was thankfully salvaged. It is now finally available on CD for
    everyone to hear.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0309i" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0309i/">
    <artist>Balai M&#233;canique</artist>
    <artistdetail>Amar, Glass, Gravel, Levine, Phil&#233;mon, Shalabi</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0309i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Balai M&#233;canique</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0309i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by Balai M&#233;canique, from the Montr&#233;al Free
    4CD boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0308i" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0308i/">
    <artist>Chris Burns, Nicolas Caloia, John Heward</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0308i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Presence</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0308i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by Burns / Caloia / Heward trio, from the
    Montr&#233;al Free 4CD boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_mmr007" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_mmr007/">
    <artist>The Eastern Stars</artist>
    <artistdetail>Corradetti, Wong</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/MMR007_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>July 5th, 1961</title>
    <catno>IMNT MMR007</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Rob Corradetti is something the world needs: a great writer. His songs are always
    charming, clever &amp; low-key. In the past two years, he has released many of them on two CDs
    with his band Mixel Pixel (namely, Rainbow Panda &amp; Contact Kid, both highly recommended by
    us.) But as any Mixel Pixel fan will attest, there&#8217;s clearly room for more. So, enter The
    Eastern Stars. With the help of Kaia Wong (also from Mixel Pixel), Corradetti has decided to
    play down his videogame side &amp; to crank up his folk rock side for once. The sound is light.
    The mood is confidential. The lyrics are a delight. In their ballad The Diamonds In Your Eyes,
    The Eastern Stars sing: &#8220;I will never behave.&#8221; You heard right. The Eastern Stars
    are singing about you. ~DT</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0307i" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0307i/">
    <artist>&#8217;Gypt Gore</artist>
    <artistdetail>Phil&#233;mon, Shalabi</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0307i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>&#8217;Gypt Gore</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0307i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by &#8217;Gypt Gore, from the Montr&#233;al Free 4CD
    boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0204" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0204/">
    <artist>morceaux_de_machines</artist>
    <artistdetail>A_dontigny, d&#8217;Orion</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0204_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>liberum arbitrium</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0204</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>So here&#8217;s the latest happenstances of our favourite miscreants of improvised
    music. If you thought &#8220;speed jazz&#8221; &amp; &#8220;death ambient&#8221; musics were
    never really what they claim, if you think computers don&#8217;t make nearly the amount of
    noise their CPU should allow them to, then you need morceaux_de_machines. Very little silence,
    for sure. But very much of noise accumulations in an increasingly dynamic fashion. With liberum
    arbitrium the duo reinvents improvised computer music with so much brio, we&#8217;ve got to
    wonder what could stop them now&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0413" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0413/">
    <artist>morceaux_de_machines</artist>
    <artistdetail>A_dontigny, d&#8217;Orion</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0413_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Estrapade</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0413</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <distinctions>&#8226; Prix Opus 2004-05: Disque de l&#8217;ann&#233;e &#8212;
    finaliste</distinctions>
    <description>Beware, electronic music fundamentalists: morceaux_de_machines are back! Yeppers,
    like that, with no warning&#8230; And they are quite ready to spoil your party. Hey, what did
    you expect? That they would leave you alone with your tranquil ventilator music and your little
    cuddly rhythms of sorry regularity? That your music would cease asking you questions, that it
    would finally stay quiet? What a bore! An advice to those who don&#8217;t subscribe to any
    musical chapel, to those for whom music is not a method of mass endoctrination, to those whose
    blood rate increases with pleasure when sonic tension rises, to those who take comfort in the
    noise of free machines, you have every reason to be happy! And for a fact&#8230; As with every
    self-respecting improviser does, &#201;rick d&#8217;Orion and A_dontigny do not only play on
    their own: sometimes, they invite colleagues on stage. This is partly the result of these
    impromptu meetings which will be heard on this new CD with four collaborations featuring well
    known (and well loved) noisicians: Martin T&#233;treault, Otomo Yoshihide and Diane Labrosse.
    The five other pieces featured are monuments of bruitism which bring to mind a word from Vanier
    (here translated freely): &#8220;We will accept culture the day a work of art will make us
    come.&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s it, we&#8217;ve said it. This is going to scare the masses
    away; what can we do about it? But what is an &#8220;estrapade&#8221;, you ask? The question
    should be: do you really want to know? Well, if you insist: it&#8217;s a French word for a
    rather cruel form of torture used in medieval times. As far as we know, the music of
    morceaux_de_machines is not, however, used as an instrument of torture but who knows&#8230; If
    No Type ever receives a royalty check from the US Army, we&#8217;ll know why.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0306i" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/imnt_0306i/">
    <artist>Po</artist>
    <artistdetail>Heward, Shalabi, St-Onge, Wiens</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0306i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Provocative Operations</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0306i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by Po, from the Montr&#233;al Free 4CD
    boxset.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
