Browse by Label: VICTO (CANADA)

Artist:	ELLIS, LISLE
Title:	Elevations
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 027CD

Bassist Ellis is best known perhaps for his free-form work with pianist Paul Plimley (recordings on 9 Winds and Hat Art, where they tackled the Ornette songbook). Here, he's featuring material he's written for a saxophone quartet (Glen Spearman, Larry Ochs, Joe McPhee, Christopher Cauley); w/ a cover of Ayler's "Mothers," another track dedicated to Jimmy Lyons, you can imagine the spirits invoked here; dense Mingus-like detail-groundwork upon which pour the lines of the aforementioned 4 masters.

Artist:	TIPPETT, KEITH
Title:	Une Croix Dans L'Ocean
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 031CD

Beautiful solo piano set, from the '94 Victoriaville Festival, which mixed prepared-piano percussive trance links and higher-key elevations. "By placing polished stones inside the Baldwin piano, he produced some of the most radiant metallic tones ever beamed from the instrument. By spending half the show discovering the beauty of the piano's interior (which included a set of enormous chimes) and the other half manufacturing abrasive, yet delicate tones, Tippett proved that, indeed, he's been wrongfully overlooked by most of the jazz community." --Exclaim magazine

Artist:	KOVAC, BORIS
Title:	Anamnesis -- Ecumenical Mysteries
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 039CD

Kovac is a composer from the former Yugoslavia, whose music was previously brought to Western ears by the ReR label. This work, performed by his ever changing Ritual Nova Ensemble (soprano, violin, cello, piano, percussion, saxophone), is dedicated to the mystics Berdjiaev and Gurdjieff. "'Anamnesis' has a clearly chamber music set up, solemn atmospheres, minimalist innuendos, quasi-orchestral sonorities. Its evocative sonic landscapes, of a tormenting beauty, could be viewed as part of the ongoing spiritual renewal characteristic of many contemporary East-European composers such as Arvo Part and Henry Gorecki. Nevertheless, Kovac's music language is far more impure and contaminated. It reveals the composer's Serbian, Hungarian and Rumanian roots and discloses similarities with the darker side of RIO, as well as with the Third Ear Band, combined with the manifest influence of Bela Bartok and Balkan folk music." --Fabrizio Gilardino.

Artist:	MASAOKA ORCHESTRA
Title:	What Is The Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Vio
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 058CD

"My impetus for founding this 16-piece orchestra was based on the desire to have a hybridized, inter-cultural, electronic-friendly, inter-media orchestra that could perform my compositions. In addition, I was developing specific techniques involving composition, improvisation, and conduction that involved the entire body in conducting, similar to the conducing methods of my Japanese Gagku teacher. For example, I carved out the shape of a sine wave with one arm and with the other arm angled a square wave, signaling to the electronic musicians to generate white noise -- which is sine and square waves together." --Miya Masaoka.

Artist:	PARKER/SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK, EVAN
Title:	Mars Song
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 042CD

Duos recorded in Toronto in 1996 between Evan (soprano and tenor saxophones) and the amazing female vocalist from Tuva, Sainkho. "Having listened to Evan for close to 25 years in a multitude of configurations, there has always been surprise and challenge in his ever developing music; the solo music especially. If one investigates the recordings, mostly soprano, it becomes apparent that he is gradually releasing all the inner voices contained in his horn, and this time there appeared two distinct lines, overlapping, in parallel, joined in harmonics. The inclusion of the tenor in his solo music has opened up yet another avenue, perhaps for even the simple reason of it having a curved bell and being an octave lower. Although I had heard Sainkho Namtchylak recordings on Leo and FMP, I was quite unprepared for the live experience. Her arsenal of sounds come not as trick singing, but story-like, at times vague notions of Madame Butterfly enter my thoughts, another gurgling dialogue of happy babies; and then so low and deep in the throat as to create a definite shiver. When they joined the saxophone and voice together, they existed in the space between my ears rather than outside in, filling my brain. Astounding music." --Bill Smith.

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Piece For Jetson Dolma
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 045CD

One 66-minute piece broken into 2 parts by the trio of Thurston Moore (guitar, amplifier, microphone), Tom Surgal (drums, perc.) & William Winant (drums, perc.). Recorded live at Victoriaville 5/17/96. Beautifully ignited sound waves ala the Klangfarbenmelodie... CD on Corpus Hermeticum. "The sounds on this disc are about colliding cultures. They are about Thurston Moore creating massive Bertoia-like sound sculptures that dangle ominously above the shiny pates of the massed cogniscenti while Tom Surgal turns his limbs into a riot of machine guns, and William Winant's percussion zyzzles through the air like sheets of burning napalm. There are moments when Surgal sounds like Jonathan Jackson power pumping his 12 gauge into a target range full of white cops' exploding heads. There are moments when Moore's guitar, amp and Japanese toys send huge resonant rainbow red arcs pulsing through the crowd's Kirlian clouds. There are moments when Winant's tympanic burling BECOMES a bridge into the hole of nada." --B. Coley

Artist:	FUSHITSUSHA
Title:	Withdrawe, this sable Disclosure ere devot'd
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 060CD

The trio of Keiji Haino (guitar, voice), Yasushi Ozawa (bass) & Ikuro Takahashi (drums), recorded live at Victoriavilla 5/16/97. "With reference to the title for the Fushitsusha album, Keiji Haino takes a lot of care and time over the selection of titles for his albums. He specifically asked that this title be translated into a type of English that would be reminiscent of medieval language. As going back that far would render the title mostly incomprehensible to the majority of listeners, we eventually came to the compromise of using Elizabethan-style (Skakespearean, etc.) grammar, spelling and diction. Within those parameters, I believe that the title makes grammatical sense and communicates both the feel and meaning of what Keiji wants to say." --Alan Cummings (translator).

Artist:	CCMC
Title:	aCCoMpliCes
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 063CD

"CCMC has passed through many phased over its 20-year residency at Toronto's renowned Music Gallery, with 8 recordings and tours of North America, Europe and Japan. The band's latest incarnation, a trio whose three members have been described in The Toronto Star as 'each an artistic powerhouse and pioneer in his own right,' has original member MIchael Snow (piano, synthesizer) flanked by alto sax wizard John (Plunderphonics) Oswald and sound-singer Paul Dutton. Together they perpetuate the CCMC commitment to improvisatory exploration and innovation, with process taking precedence and form evolving organically in a shifting tapestry of textures and timbres." Recorded live in 1996-'97.

Artist:	KIMURA/ROBERTO MORALES MANZANARES, KIMURA
Title:	Leyendas
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 069CD

"Mari Kimura, violin; Roberto Morales Manzanares, flutes, piano, Veracruz harp. Manzanares' choice of instruments and techniques reveals a panoramic sweep extending back to the vast pre-Columbian civilizations of the Central and South Americas, back across the treks over the Bering Strait, and on rafts over the Pacific, back to Asia and forward again on all circuits. In Kimura's extended violin technique, another look backward, through the veil of the European academy and through the language of gagaku and noh. They finally meet in an illuminated place outside of all location, temporal or spatial." - -Elliot Sharp.

Artist:	MARCLAY/THURSTON MOORE/LEE RANALDO, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Fuck Shit Up
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 071CD

Christian Marclay (turntables and records), Thurston Moore (guitar and amplified, Lee Ranaldo (guitar, 'krackelbox' and diverse objects). "Feedback rose and fell in heaving crescendos, drum sticks were inserted between strings, and for an hour and change, a wall of beautiful noise was erected, then smashed to bits, with no pesky backbeats or melodies to upset mesmeric abandon." Recorded at the Victoriaville Festival on 5/24/99.

Artist:	PLIMLEY/JOHN OSWALD/MARILYN CRISPELL/CECIL TAYLOR, PAUL
Title:	Complicit�
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 074-6CD

"Three pianists -- Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell and Paul Plimley -- and an alto saxist -- John Oswald -- gathered to play, in a triple-header that meandered blissfully and chaotically, and showed us a vision of measured abandon. Freedom rang out, amidst floating bits of structure and melody, and it also stretched out over three hours. Obviously, an intensely personal expression is involved in the work of solo improvisers on this high of an order. Yet there is also a negation of the usual musical hierarchies, which makes this music so brimming with a kind of idealism, unveiled in very real time."

Artist:	TAYLOR/BILL DIXON/TONY OXLEY, CECIL
Title:	Taylor/Dixon/Oxley
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 082CD

Cecil Taylor: piano, Bill Dixon: trompette, bugle, Tony Oxley: batterie, percussion. "A summit meeting of historical proportions, the magic triangle of Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley belies the contention that Musique Actuelle is a young man's music alone. In this cutting edge world premiere concert, three masters with more than 40 years of experience each proved that they are as forward looking now as they were when they began."

Artist:	FUJII/TATSUYA YOSHIDA, SATOKO
Title:	Toh-Kichi
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 083CD

"Compatriots Satoko Fujil and Tatsuya Yoshida thrillingly demonstrated the virtues of Speed Metal Improv. The piano/drums duo threw itself headlong into a wild and bogglingly precise exchange of hammering percussion and jabbering voices -- part battle, part hyperactive dance. A flawless composite of jumpcuts, the set spanned the musical map from hardcore and Metal to boogie-woogie and tango, ending with a hilarious impromptu rendition of 'Girl From Ipanama'."

Artist:	CHADBOURNE/REN� LUSSIER, EUGENE
Title:	L'Oasis
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 084CD

"Eugene Chadbourne found the perfect partner in Rene Lussier. Chadbourne has phenomenal technique, a precocious sense of humor, and a willingness to spar with just about anyone. Lussier has the technique and wit to match Chadbourne, and also shares his love for folk roots. So after the two retreated to Lussler's farm for a few days to work out a set, they came up with a blistering mix of thorny free improvisation, blinding flat-picked duets, refracted bluegrass, warped country blues, and skewed country swing. Their set had the relaxed feel of a front porch party as the two switched off from steel string guitar, electric guitar, National Steel, and banjo. Licks were traded back and forth, full of crackling energy and stoked abandon. Musical genres were gobbled up and shredded through a cracked sensibility shared by the two."

Artist:	EROSONIC
Title:	Mystery Theatre
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 085CD

David Mott : saxopbone baryton; Joseph Petric : accordeon et bande. "In 1994 Joseph Petric approached David Mott and suggested the idea of a unique duo which would explore new compositional, improvisation and artistic terrain. In the baritone saxophone discography, this disc reinforces the well known work of David Mott as he uses an extended registral spectrum, circular breathing, vocal modulation, multiphonics and timbral shifts. Mon has long been active as a composer and performer in an inclusive sonic exploration that allows for a greater range of artistic expressivity. In the accordion discography, this disc establishes Petric as the first accordionist to achieve an inclusive art of performance. This is based on the big picture integration of improvisation, interpretation, extended instrumental technique, vibrato and the introduction of his instruments prototypical accordion sound. Petric's aesthetic allusion to sonic symbolism through references to both vernacular and past musics (semiotic coding), provides the foundation for the enormous range of artistic expressivity on the accordion."

Artist:	ROVA
Title:	Resistance
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 086CD

"Ignore the passing of time as a measure of anything real. Twenty-five years and counting is a milestone, but really only means they've had more opportunities and experiences -- commissions, recordings, performances, musical and personal challenges -- all of which affect the growth patterns, the infrastructural dynamics, the attitude and identity of the ensemble as ensemble. Rova's music exists within this 'continuous present'-- any other interpretation would arbitrarily lessen their previous, valuable accomplishments. And the catalogue they have composed is large, singular, significant. This newest chapter is the equal of any, an affirmation of continuity, of what poet Robin Blaser called the commotion of belief. Beginning again and again." --Art Lange

Artist:	DEROME/LOUIS SCLAVIS QUARTET, JEAN
Title:	Un Moment de Bonheur
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 087CD

"When Louis Sclavis and Jean Derome joined artistic forces for a Victoriaville concert in 2001, it was a meeting on turf both familiar and alien. That sort of duality is at the heart of an artistic adventure all about the pursuit of, and also selective resistance to, balance. It was a transcontinental first encounter between musicians who knew of each other, who shared mutual respect, and are known to cross idiomatic borders. The virtuoso and range-free clarinetist Sclavis & Montrealer Derome (flute, alto sax, guimbarde). The conference of disciplined free spirits resulted in one of the clear highlights of that year's FIMAV, and a rambling musical landscape with proper disregard for genre or strict adherence to structure."

Artist:	KOWALD/WILLIAM PARKER, PETER
Title:	The Victoriaville Tape
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 088CD

Kowald (contrabass, voice) & Parker (contrabass), recorded live at Victoriaville, 5/19/02. "Hear a sound become a sound respond to sound if you play low I'll play high if you pluck I'll bow. Paint with sound if you walk I'll solo on top then I'll walk and you'll solo on top. Listen to the silence that accompanies this history this journey of music see the colors hear the colors of the world 8 strings dancing over the dark sunset use your voice down the low mountains of E now swing! sing! swing! sing! like old new now moment song second chance every second a second a chance rosin dust field of flowers again and again and again sarangi fiddle, koto kumungo, violin, cello, banjo, a string village his term throwing paint across the sky like rainbows echoes of voices looking for peace no matter what they say the blind and deaf scouts called critics they know little about this ritual or this brotherhood of circles and horizons they were not there when the crows sang they were not there when the temples were built nor were they there when the temple fell now they scramble to claim the broken pieces they cannot put back together the sound soon stops then goes on and on and on forever. And then the tears came and heaven opened. Uncle Petey goes up to join the band in the sky he is greeted by Jimmy Blanton his face smiles now sunshine eternal sunshine. --William Parker, February 2003

Artist:	MERZBOW/PAN SONIC
Title:	V
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 089CD

Recorded live at Victoriaville, 5/20/02; one 68-minute piece performed by Masami Akita, Mika Vaino & Ilpo Vaisanen. "The festival's closing act, Pan Sonic vs Merzbow, was worth the long wait. Their complete absence of stage presence notwithstanding, the trio orchestrated glorious cascades of white noise that sporadically collapsed into fat dirty beats -- a gut rumbling excursion into the inner depths of sound and an indication of where the true spirit of improv lives in 2002."

Artist:	CHARLES/DIANE LABROSSE/KRISTOFF K. ROLL/MARTIN T�TREAULT, XAVIER
Title:	Tout le monde en place pour un set americain
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 090CD

"The most successful was the Saturday afternoon concert by Diane Labrosse (electronics), Martin T�treault (turntables etc), Xavier Charles (clarinet and electronics) and French duo Kristoff K. Roll (household objects). The five were placed on a platform in the middle of the Colis�e, and the audience was free to walk around and observe the musicians at close range, which de-mystified the process. The improvisation was powerful and atmospheric, dominated by Labrosse's inventive use of samples taken from around her house. Tetreault was drolly inventive, while Charles and KK. Roll added splashes of colors."

Artist:	PARKER TRIO & PETER BROTZMANN TRIO, EVAN
Title:	The Bishop's Move
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 093CD

"Evan Parker's trio with Paul Lytton and Alex Schlippenbach (swapped in for bassist Barry Guy), and Peter Br�tzmann's trio with Hamid Drake and William Parker, were on North American tours at the same exact time in Spring, 2003. Why not arrange a meeting for them at FIMAV? This, then, was the first time that this grouping performed together, the debut of the Evan Parker/Peter Br�tzmann supertrio. The historic results are here for you to hear, testament as much to the integrity of the two working trios as to the combinatorial force of the sextet. Naturally, this says almost nothing of the music itself. It is, in its own way, both the product of this criss-crossing history, and also a single night's ephemeral moment. Improvisation is both of those at once. It condenses complex histories into a simple dictum: make it mean something here and now. There and then, at FIMAV 2003, that's exactly what they did. The two identities here are the two trios. What we hear is what happens when they square off and play with (and for) one another. And for us. Continuing the crissing and crossing of this genealogical line." -- John Corbett, Chicago, August 2004

Artist:	SAWAI/MICHEL DONEDA/KAZUO IMAI/LE QUAN NINH/TETSU SAITOH, KAZUE
Title:	Une Chance Pour L'ombre
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 094CD

Kazue Sawai: koto; Michel Doneda: saxophone soprano et sopranino; Kazuo Imai: Guitare acoustique; Le Quan Ninh: percussion; Tetsu Saitoh: contrebasse. "This momentous world premiere meeting took place during the 2003 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. There were noisier, more blustery concerts and higher profile musicians in town that week in late spring, but few shows had such a high degree of quiet strength and empathetic grace." --John Woodard

Artist:	BRAXTON SEXTET, ANTHONY
Title:	(Victoriaville) 2005
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 098CD

"A radical thinker in a class by himself, Braxton writes compositions that represent a complex view of the world. One look at his charts -- which combine standard notation, passages of notes in specific colours and unique graphical representations -- and it's clear that there's an advanced process in play. And watching the sextet perform, witnessing the kind of concentration and attention required by everyone with everyone, provided definite insight into how Braxton's revolutionary compositions make the transition from written page to performance. With a variety of extended techniques used by all to broaden the sonic palette, '345' was a stunning new piece of music that continues to assert Braxton as one of the great musical thinkers of the past forty years. His compositions demand nothing less than complete commitment by the audience, and it was clear that those in attendance were totally engaged. A remarkable piece performed by an outstanding ensemble and a clear festival high point." -- John Kelman

Artist:	BRAXTON & FRED FRITH, ANTHONY
Title:	Duo (Victoriaville) 2005
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 100CD

"Here we have two pillars of creative music, two researchers who are still charting new musical grounds with stunning dedication and consistently renewed passion; two musicians who have been active for more than three decades. One is an Afro-American from Chicago, the other, an Englishman born somewhere on that enormous island. The music roots of these two lay light-miles away from one another: jazz and contemporary music for the first, rock and blues for the second. Both are remarkable multi-instrumentalists, but their instruments of choice are the alto saxophone for one, the electric guitar for the other. But two key traits are undoubtedly common to both of them: virtuosity in the art of improvisation and elegance in the mastery of interactive instant composition. These two men go straight to the point and systematically dive head first into music created in the very instant, all for our music-loving pleasure." --Michel F. Cote

Artist:	MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Title:	Il Suono Venuto Dallo Spazio
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	VICTO 101CD

Enregistre 'live' au 23 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, le 20 mai 2006. "Each album or performance by My Cat Is an Alien is an invitation to leave on a cosmic journey, without resorting to the numerous cliches of the space music genre. Think instead of a synth-less Ash Ra Tempel coming across the quiet improvisation current. Think of stripped-down music made of looped droning guitars, caressed percussion, toy instruments and toy microphones being used while boldly disregarding all printed warnings. Think of a cosmos glorifying its vacuous interstellar space, the silence that amplifies the smallest particles of sound. Or don't think at all and just let yourself be swept away." --Francois Couture

Artist:	PARKER & THE LITTLE HUEY CREATIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA, WILLIAM
Title:	For Percy Heath
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 102CD

"Enregistre <> au 22e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 22 mai 2005. Sabir Mateen: saxophone tenor, clarinette alto; Darryl Foster: saxophones tenor et soprano; Rob Brown: saxophone alto; Charles Waters: saxophone alto, clarinette; Dave Sewelson: saxophone baryton; Roy Campbell: trompette; Matt Lavelle: trompette; Lewis Barnes: trompette; Steve Swell: trombone; Alex Lodico: trombone; Masahiko Kono: trombone; Dave Hofstra: tuba; Andrew Barker: batterie; William Parker: contrebasse, composition, direction."

Artist:	CLINE/ANDREA PARKINS/TOM RAINEY, NELS
Title:	Downpour
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 104CD

"A strong trio, again with two homeys, Nels Cline on electric guitar with devices (from L.A. & currently in Wilco), Andrea Parkins on accordion & sampler and Tom Rainey on drums. This trio plays mostly long pieces which develop slowly with Nels and Andrea repeating fragments as they build and mutate their textures. Tom Rainey is the perfect man for this job as he weaves his percussive waves, helping to navigate the rapids that Nels and Andrea weave together. There is an unexpected hard rocking punk explosion mid-set, which seems strange from Tom Rainey, yet not out of character from Nels who has worked with Mike Watt (from the Minutemen), Lydia Lunch & Geraldine Fibbers. What I dig about this trio is that there is no leader here, each member is an integral part of the sound and helps to determine the direction of each piece. They each seem to pass ideas back and forth and build upon each idea, turning it slowly into something else." --Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

Artist:	FUJII MIN-YOH ENSEMBLE, SATOKO
Title:	Fujin Raijin
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 105CD

Performed by: Satoko Fuji (piano), Natsuki Tamura (trumpet), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Andrea Parkins (accordion). Studio recordings from 2006. "Min-Yoh means folk music in Japanese. Almost all of them are made by people, not by professional composers. And they were arranged as they were played and sung, by all the people who played it. Because it is music for ordinary people, it usually has very simple form, structure and scales. After I studied classical music and jazz music, I began to be interested in Min-Yoh. I found in it a totally different power from the music I had previously studied and played. When I play, sing and listen to this music, it goes directly to my heart. It is hard to explain, but I can even feel it in my DNA. I have been thinking about making my own Min-Yoh for a long time. I wanted to leave it its power. There are many music styles that have used the form, scales and rhythms of Min-Yoh, but they often lose the power, which is the most important part of this music. I have in my band musicians who totally understand this idea. With their beautiful, deep and powerful expression, I was able to make this project happen the way I wanted to." --Satoko Fujii, February 2007

Artist:	BORBETOMAGUS & HIJOKAIDAN
Title:	Both Noises End Burning
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 106CD

Enregistr� au 23e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 21 mai 2006. "Borbetomagus and Hijokaidan sharing the stage. Noise music fans are getting goosebumps reading those words. Others, well... others should be scared, very scared! Two monster proponents of noise aesthetics, representing two continents whose cultures have often been described as incompatible and yet meet in the celebration of noise. Purifying noise annihilating nationalities and differences. Noise inviting us to a fabulous sonic orgy where energy will reign over precision of execution, where violence is sublimated through strings, reeds and skins, where artistic research consists in destroying over and over what one has managed to build, in order to reinvent it. Two sax players, two guitar players, an electronics player, a singer and a drummer, all working hard to convince you that noise can be a lot more than noise, but exists mostly for making some noise!" --Fran�ois Couture

Artist:	BRAXTON, ANTHONY
Title:	Trio (Victoriaville) 2007
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 108CD

Enregistre au 24e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 20 mai 2007. "Diamond Curtain Wall is relatively new. Here is an intimate opportunity to hear Braxton feature his recent foray into the world of laptop and interactive electronics. Braxton and laptop? What would this element bring to his music? Use of electronics is hardly unprecedented in Braxton's music. After all, he played with Richard Teitelbaum starting in the early '70s and featured Bob Ostertag on synthesizer in a late '70s version of his creative orchestra. But for the first time, Braxton is diving in to working with interactive electronics himself! As is always the case with Braxton, particular performances, groupings, and compositional forms are a point on an ever-evolving line. During the Sunday afternoon performance captured here, there was particular magic which Halvorson described as 'an exciting feeling of going into the unknown.' All of this comes through from the first probing counterpoint to the final hovering notes punctuated by a burst of electronic squall that fades into a quavering overtone." --Michael Rosenstein, October 2007

Artist:	BRAXTON, ANTHONY
Title:	12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 109CD

"This concert offers a striking opportunity to hear the ensemble in full force. The 70-minute piece builds an inner logic of staggering detail, while never losing the propulsive flow. The shifting layers and counter-structures mount with scorching intensity and then break into pools of quiet tension only to explode off again. The momentum can march along with a galvanizing pulse, fracture into freedom, or cascade with a roiling sense of swing. Braxton has stated that the music played by this ensemble is the culmination of the Ghost Transe series. But as is always the case with Braxton, the consummation of one phase simply serves as the launching point for what is to come. And for both those who have been following his career for decades and initiates alike, the search is sure to bring new rewards" --Michael Rosenstein, November 2007

Artist:	HAINO/MASAMI AKITA, KEIJI
Title:	Kikuri/Pulverized Purple
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 110CD

"Two living legends of extreme Japanese music sharing the stage for the first time outside their country." Recorded live at the Victoriaville Festival, May, 2007. Nice tracklisting: 1. That which will rise from death here tonight will go hand in hand with a glittering echo burdened with the sin of joy (10:15) 2. By mischance that soul I devoured was a transparent, vertical blues (10:03) 3. Give me back that color you stole from my guts (12:44) 4. That place into which you fell was lined with a cushion of pain and is no proof of your continuing existence (5:55) 5. Pulverized Purple (30:20.)

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Artist:	BAILEY/ANTHONY BRAXTON, DEREK
Title:	Moment Precieux
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 002CD

Artist:	CRISPELL, MARILYN
Title:	Labyrinths
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 006CD

Artist:	KAISER/JIM O'ROURKE, HENRY
Title:	Tomorrow Knows Where You Live
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 014CD

Artist:	COOPER, LINSDAY
Title:	Oh Moscow
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 015CD

Artist:	BAUER, KONRAD
Title:	Toronto Tone
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 017CD

Artist:	BRAXTON QUARTET, ANTHONY
Title:	(Victoriaville) 1992
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 021CD

Artist:	PLIMLEY/LISLE ELLIS/GREGG BENDIAN, PAUL
Title:	Noir
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 022CD

Artist:	BAUER TRIO, KONRAD
Title:	Three Wheels - Four Directions
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 023CD

Artist:	KAISER/KIMURA/O'ROURKE/OSWALD
Title:	Acoustics
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 025CD

Artist:	KING/DAVID MOSS/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, JOHN
Title:
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 029CD

Artist:	ROELOF, ANNEMARIES' WASTE WATCHERS
Title:	Music From The Land Of Milk & Honey
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 048CD

Artist:	LEIMGRUBER/MARILYN CRISPELL/JOELLE LEANDRE/FRITZ HAUSER, URS
Title:	Quartet Noir
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 067CD

Artist:	MINAFRA, PINO
Title:	Canto Libero
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 077CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Dix Improvisations
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 009CD

Artist:	DUCHESNE, ANDRE
Title:	L'Ou'L
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 010CD

Artist:	FAR EAST SIDE BAND
Title:	Urban Archaeology
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 037CD

Artist:	CHADBOURNE/PAUL LOVENS, EUGENE
Title:	Patrizio
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 046CD

Artist:	RANALDO/WILLIAM HOOKER, LEE
Title:	Clouds
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 054CD

Artist:	CHADBOURNE/HENRY KAISER, EUGENE
Title:	The Guitar Lesson
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 064CD

Artist:	PLIMLEY TRIO, PAUL
Title:	Safe-Crackers
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 066CD

Artist:	DRESSER/FRED FRITH/IKUE MORI, MARK
Title:	Later
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 070CD

Artist:	WOLF EYES & ANTHONY BRAXTON
Title:	Black Vomit
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 099CD

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Nine For Victor
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 103CD

Artist:	TETREAULT/KID KOALA, MARTIN
Title:	Phon-O-Victo
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 107CD