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<label id="redtoucan" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/boutique/redtoucan/">
  <name>Red Toucan Records</name>
  <shortname>Red Toucan</shortname>
  <recording id="rt_9302" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/rt_9302/">
    <artist>Normand Guilbeault Ensemble</artist>
    <artistdetail>Guilbeault</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/9302_RT.gif" />
    <title>Dualismus</title>
    <catno>RT 9302</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>A latin word that describes a state or a quality of being in two parts. When
    applied to music, a duality may also suggest a juxtaposition of two contrasting styles or
    approaches, some what like following different directions at the same time. And it is precisely
    on those terms that the Normand Guilbeault Ensemble has established its own artistic agenda.
    For starters, this ensemble is now coming into its own, and in many interesting ways, too. As
    one may now suspect by the title of this package, this band has gone one step further in the
    concept departement: while the quintet&#8217;s music is very much imbued with the jazz
    tradition, there is also a commitment to move into areas off the beaten paths, the preview of
    the &#8220;avant-garde&#8221; so to speak. Thought this may be its debut recording, this
    document is the outcome of some six years of dedicated work. Through thick and thin (mainly the
    latter) and a common sense of purpose, this five-man ensemble is now ready to emerge out of the
    wings with this hard-won premiere release, a labour of love one may well say. [&#8230;] At
    another level, dual relationships are apparent in Normand Guilbeault&#8217;s approach to
    composition and arrangement. Note how the brassmen act as the band&#8217;s melodicists
    (&#8220;The Singers of the Band&#8221;, according to the leader), while the clarinetist weaves
    inventive counterlines of his own. Not to be overlooked either is the drum and bass rhythm
    section: one cannot help but appreciate their almost telepathic sense of interplay. As
    important as the individual contributions are, the music heard here is a sum total, a team
    effort first and foremost. Need one say more!&#8212;Marc Chenard, May 1994</description>
  </recording>
</label>
