ROBERT MARCEL LEPAGE + RENÉ LUSSIER + QUATUOR BOZZINI – Chants Et Danses… With Strings! (Vol.III)

j’ai participé au Trésor de la Langue de René Lussier…

MASSIMO RICCI. TOUCHING EXTREMES.

Tour De Bras

We’re here reporting about the most recent effort by a pair of pillars of Quebec’s scene, of whom this reviewer bought the vinyl version of their first collaboration – Chants Et Danses Du Monde Inanimé – shortly after it came out in 1984 (gasp). We never looked back, in case you’re asking.

Conventum, ever heard of them? Le Trésor De La Langue, anyone? Does the title La Traversée De La Mémoire Morte ring any bell? There is time to do some homework, no problem. But please do it if you’re not acquainted with these perennially acute artists yet.

The activities of Lepage and Lussier – quirkily proficient in clarinet and guitar respectively – are exquisitely complemented by Bozzini’s strings across a cycle of pieces long enough to give the idea of a fully formed concept and short enough to make sure that, once the picture has…

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