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• Noma
• Tom Walsh
• Martha Wainwright
• Michael J Browne

NOMA is known for its modern vocabulary and numerous talents. From Ellington to Zappa, The Grateful Dead and John Zorn, audiences have been trying hard to define NOMA’s style. Here’s what they came up with: one third jazz, one third “musique actuelle” and one third heavy groove.

Presented as part of the SuperOption Series, co-produced by PSM, actuellecd and Contextural Music.

NomaMOTS

A first in the history of NOMA: guests! Martha Wainwright and Michael J. Browne will be performing NOMA’s brand new songs with the band.

WINoma

A surprise guest will get the chance to conduct, improvise and even mix the ensemble live.

Concerts will be recorded and the best moments will appear on NOMA’s new CD, to be released by Ambiances Magnétiques in March 2003.

The speed of particles and free forms that make sense are spreading!

• Noma
• Tom Walsh
• Martha Wainwright
• Michael J Browne

NOMA is known for its modern vocabulary and numerous talents. From Ellington to Zappa, The Grateful Dead and John Zorn, audiences have been trying hard to define NOMA’s style. Here’s what they came up with: one third jazz, one third “musique actuelle” and one third heavy groove.

Presented as part of the SuperOption Series, co-produced by PSM, actuellecd and Contextural Music.

NomaMOTS

A first in the history of NOMA: guests! Martha Wainwright and Michael J. Browne will be performing NOMA’s brand new songs with the band.

WINoma

A surprise guest will get the chance to conduct, improvise and even mix the ensemble live.

Concerts will be recorded and the best moments will appear on NOMA’s new CD, to be released by Ambiances Magnétiques in March 2003.

The speed of particles and free forms that make sense are spreading!

• Geneviève Letarte, texts, voice
• Claude Fradette, electric and acoustic guitars
• Normand Guilbeault, double bass
• Ivanhoe Jolicœur, trumpet
• Ugo Di Vito, drum set

Simple and melodious, Geneviève Letarte’s song cycle Chansons d’un jour is modern and accessible. Carried by the writer’s voice, these songs wrap us into embracing atmospheres with occasional touches of nostalgia, to talk to us about love and contemplation, inquest and strangeness, and the big and small absurdities of existence.

• Ipso Facto (David Bussières, guitars; Chantal Bergeron, violin; Simon Dolan, double bass; Francis Roberge, percussion)

Ipso Facto is a true spiral in which one will find the intelligence of the classical composer, the freedom of the jazzman, and the unrestrained emotion of world music. Improvisations, latin rhythms, Gypsy, Jewish and Bartokian melodies, at times tainted with delightful influences of Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli, will leave a bewitching impression. From wild gypsy music to reworked klezmer, with detours through tango and playful bluegrass, Ipso Facto is a group made up of virtuoso instrumentalists in the service of the realm of the musical imagination. Drink deep!

• Noma
• Tom Walsh
• Martha Wainwright
• Michael J Browne

NOMA is known for its modern vocabulary and numerous talents. From Ellington to Zappa, The Grateful Dead and John Zorn, audiences have been trying hard to define NOMA’s style. Here’s what they came up with: one third jazz, one third “musique actuelle” and one third heavy groove.

Presented as part of the SuperOption Series, co-produced by PSM, actuellecd and Contextural Music.

NomaMOTS

A first in the history of NOMA: guests! Martha Wainwright and Michael J. Browne will be performing NOMA’s brand new songs with the band.

WINoma

A surprise guest will get the chance to conduct, improvise and even mix the ensemble live.

Concerts will be recorded and the best moments will appear on NOMA’s new CD, to be released by Ambiances Magnétiques in March 2003.

The speed of particles and free forms that make sense are spreading!

• Fred Frith, electric guitar, processing, voice
• Jean Derome, saxophones, flutes, small instruments
• Pierre Tanguay, drum set, harmonica, jew’s harp, objects
• Bernard Grenon, processing

December 13 at the Sala Rossa, as part of the SuperOption Series, Productions SuperMusique presents a riveting meeting between three iconoclastic improvisers: Fred Frith, Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay. The music produced by this world premiere will be treated live by creative sound engineer Bernard Grenon. Furthermore, the record label DAME will take this opportunity to release an album by Fred Frith, Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen: All Is Bright, But It Is Not Day.

Led, inspired and hosted by the amazing Fred Frith, this trio outing is a rare meeting between these three mavericks of improvisation. The blend between Tanguay and Derome’s jazz background and Frith’s angular rock approach results in music that epitomizes the essence of “musique actuelle”.

• Fred Frith, electric guitar, processing, voice
• Jean Derome, saxophones, flutes, small instruments
• Pierre Tanguay, drum set, harmonica, jew’s harp, objects
• Bernard Grenon, processing

December 13 at the Sala Rossa, as part of the SuperOption Series, Productions SuperMusique presents a riveting meeting between three iconoclastic improvisers: Fred Frith, Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay. The music produced by this world premiere will be treated live by creative sound engineer Bernard Grenon. Furthermore, the record label DAME will take this opportunity to release an album by Fred Frith, Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen: All Is Bright, But It Is Not Day.

Led, inspired and hosted by the amazing Fred Frith, this trio outing is a rare meeting between these three mavericks of improvisation. The blend between Tanguay and Derome’s jazz background and Frith’s angular rock approach results in music that epitomizes the essence of “musique actuelle”.

• Klaxon Gueule (Michel F Côté, percussion; Bernard Falaise, electric guitar; Alexandre St-Onge, double bass)

Part of the “SuperOption” series

• Lori Freedman, clarinets
• Nicolas Caloia, double bass
• Danielle Palardy Roger, percussion

Part of the “SuperOption” series

Virtuose clarinettist Lori Freedman is internationaly recognized as ranking among the most creative. Her trio with ingenious and audacious improvisers Caloia and Palardy Roger demonstrates a rare sensibility and remarkable complicity.

This trio became the starting point for the group FReC.

• Pierre Cartier, voice, double bass
• Jean Derome, alto saxophone, G flute
• Jean René, viola
• Tom Walsh, trombone
• Bernard Falaise, electric guitar
• Pierre Tanguay, drum set

Presented during the “SuperOption” Series

Drawing from the sincerity of the heart, Pierre Cartier delivers a concert about love, like a true jazzman. Cartier is a deep, passionate composer. Imagine a soft voice whose greatest strength is its melancholia; imagine a song structure borrowed from jazz, and a singing style reminiscent of French chanson, all that wrapped up in an intensity of near-liturgical proportions. That is only a glimpse of Pierre Cartier’s songs.

• Pierre Cartier, voice, double bass
• Jean Derome, alto saxophone, G flute
• Jean René, viola
• Tom Walsh, trombone
• Bernard Falaise, electric guitar
• Pierre Tanguay, drum set

Presented during the “SuperOption” Series

Drawing from the sincerity of the heart, Pierre Cartier delivers a concert about love, like a true jazzman. Cartier is a deep, passionate composer. Imagine a soft voice whose greatest strength is its melancholia; imagine a song structure borrowed from jazz, and a singing style reminiscent of French chanson, all that wrapped up in an intensity of near-liturgical proportions. That is only a glimpse of Pierre Cartier’s songs.

• i8u, sampler, processing
• Magali Babin, electronics, various metal objects

Presented during the “SuperOption” Series

Here is a fabulous meeting between two innovative Montréal female musicians. Magali Babin is treating contact mikes and amplified metal, while I8U creates waves of digital sounds treated through analog filters. Unheard music, both minimal and humongous!

• DB Boyko, voice
• Christine Duncan, voice
• Jean Martin, percussion

Part of the “SuperOption” Series

The human voice is a fascinating instrument. Jazz singer Christine Duncan and vocalist DB Boyko are two spectacular virtuosos, true sonic explorers. Together with Martin, who adds turntables to his drum kit, this trio offers a fresh take on improvisation. From Wagner to the kitchen sink.

• Les Poules (Joane Hétu, alto saxophone, vocals; Diane Labrosse, sampler; Danielle Palardy Roger, percussion, vocals)

Part of the “SuperOption” series

Three woman improvisers compose «live» a landscape out of threads of electronic and acoustic sounds, sparks and hushed tones, shakings and rubbings, mouth plays and such forth.

Les Poules is a trio made up of Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, and Danielle Palardy Roger. Three instrumentalist-composer-improvisers who have been working together since 1980. Their collaboration is legendary, their musical explorations always avant-garde. They mix up synthetic and acoustic sounds, the crackling and humming of samplers, the churning and chafing of percussion, vocalization, and the mouth play and hissing of saxophones. The effect of these mixtures and soundscapes is extraordinary: they weave a fabric of sound whose instrumental threads the listener will sometimes find difficult to distinguish.