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Dionee (Beriault / Servant / Normand): Attrape-mouches

Label: Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Product Code: 32571
Catalog Code: TDB900060cd / microcidi029
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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Exploring the Venus Flytrap (dionée attrape-mouche) through a trio of electroacoustic improv, with the acoustic elements from Clarisse Beriault on oboe and acoustic bass and Robin Servant on accordion, bassist Éric Normand providing the electric foundation to their sly and savage improvisations, all three using electronics & effects to emulate the thigmonastic carnivore.


Brulez les meubles (Beaudoin / Normand / Derome / Hollenbeck): Tardif

Label: Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Product Code: 32570
Catalog Code: TDB900058cd / microcidi030
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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The Quebec project Brulez Les Meubles (Burn the Furniture) was conceived by long-time friends and contemporary jazz fans, bassist Eric Normand and guitarist Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonniere, each collaboration inviting other musicians to join their warm & relaxed approach to modern jazz, here with Jean Derome on saxophone & flute and John Hollenbeck on drums.


Derome, Jean (Derome / Hetu / Robichaud / Servant / Jacques / Bastien / Normand / Side): Rose Drummond

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques / Tour de Bras
Product Code: 32569
Catalog Code: AM_269 TDB900057cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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A tribute to controversial and outrageous Quebec sculptor and installation artist Rose Drummond, through a collection of unusual, diverse, absurdist and absolutely remarkable instrumental & vocal songs drawn from saxophonist and composer Jean Derome's musical career, performed with Musique Actuelle luminaries including Michel F Coté, Joane Hétu, and Éric Normand.


Hautzinger, Franz / Eric Normand : Unbelievably Late

Label: Tour de Bras / Inexhaustible Editions
Product Code: 32568
Catalog Code: tdb90054 / ie-051
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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Having originally met in 2016 when Viennese trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and Quebec electric bassist Éric Normand formed Torche! with Michel F Cote, Philippe Lauzier and Xavier Charles, the two improvisers developed this collage during the pandemic from asynchronous recordings, creating six dramatic and explorative compositions of incredible and unusual technique.


Le GGRIL: Sommes [3 CDs]

Label: Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Product Code: 31073
Catalog Code: TDB9051cd / microcidi024
Country: Canada
 
Price: $24.95



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A magnificent triple-CD set from the Quebec creative ensemble GGRIL performing the works of Frederic Blondy, Robert Marcel Lepage, Lisa Cay Miller, Malcolm Goldstein, Caroline Kraabel, Allison Cameron, Martin Arnold, Lori Freedman, Michel F. Cote, Jean Derome and Gus Garside, a significant and beautifully packaged release from one of Canada's most important new music groups.


GGRIL + Jean-Luc Guionnet: Tatouages Miroir

Label: Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Product Code: 29987
Catalog Code: TDB9046cd / microcidi018
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Jean-Luc Guionnet composes for the Le Grand Groupe Régional d'Improvisation Libérée (GGRIL) directed by bassist Éric Normand, with an 11-piece ensemble recording in the studio for a work of tension and release through fitful sections that explores contrast and unison, space and contraction, guided by a wonderful sense of mystery and surprise.


Muller, Matthias / Eric Normand / Petr Vrba: Triche!

Label: Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Product Code: 29986
Catalog Code: TDB9045cd / microcidi017
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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A set of informed avant/abstract acoustic and electroacoustic improvisations recorded in the studio in Austria in 2019, from the transatlantic trio of Euro free jazz legend, trombonist Matthias Muller, Quebec bassist Eric Normand on electric bass, and innovative trumpeter Petr Vrba also deploying electronics, the trio's interaction focused on patient and inspired sonic detail.


Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand : Not the music : Les temps fluos [PRINT w/ DOWNLOAD]

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 29388
Catalog Code: None
Country: France
 
Price: $15.95



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An album of quiet improvisation focused on timbre, rhythm and pensive pacing from the duo of bass clarinetist Philippe Lauzier and bassist Éric Normand, also using objects to create mysterious tones and acoustic sonics, released as a limited 300g paper card hand-printed by Normad with an accompanying download code, 1 of 2 art cards initiating an 8-card series.


Normand, Eric: Demission Definitive Du Patron

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 29350
Catalog Code: TDB9042cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Two large compositions by Montreal bassist Éric Normand, the first in a quintet with Camille Brisson, Antoine Simard, Marc-Antoine Mackin and Sébastien Maltais, using electronics, objects and motors; the second an acoustic work performed by the Quasar saxophone quartet of Marie-Chantale Leclerc, Mathieu Leclerc, André Leroux & Jean-Marc Bouchard.


Denley, Jim / Eric Normand: Plant 3 [VINYL]

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 28768
Catalog Code: TDB90005LP
Country: Canada
 
Price: $23.95



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The collaboration of Quebec bassist Eric Normand and Australian saxophonist Jim Denley, both dedicated experimenters, in their third duo album under the Plant name, here recording live at the 2019 Syndey, Australia NowNow Festival, with Denley also playing bass flute, fruits and objects, and Normand using objects and playing the bass amp itself.


GGRIL: Plays Laubrock

Label: Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Product Code: 28765
Catalog Code: TDB9039
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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The GGRIL (Grand groupe régional d'improvisation libérée) improviser ensemble based in Quebec invited German saxophonist living in NYC, Ingrid Laubrock, to compose three works, taking the band on adventerous journeys of texture, abstraction and melody, harnessing the power of the band's unique orchestration of electric guitars, percussion, and strings.


Charles, Xavier / Eric Normand : Avis Aux Reacteurs

Label: Inexhaustible Editions
Product Code: 27966
Catalog Code: ie-009
Country: Slovenia
 
Price: $15.95



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Recorded live at Silence Sounds in Guelph Canada, the duo of Xavier Charles on clarinet and Eric Normand on electric bass & objects eschew idiom in favor of their unique natural language on their instruments, applying patient development of truly idiosyncratic and fascinating command through a single extended work punctuated in seven diverse passages.


GGRIL [feat John Butcher / Isaiah Ceccarelli / Xavier Charles]: Facon [2 CDs]

Label: Circum-Disc
Product Code: 27470
Catalog Code: microcidi014
Country: France
 
Price: $17.95



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The Quebec ensemble GGRIL of eclectic instrumentation, acoustic and electronic, with an open-minded approach to developing large-scale works bringing together approaches to improvisation and contemporary composition, here presenting three works from residencies with John Butcher, Isaiah Ceccarelli and Xavier Charles recorded from 2016 through 2018.


Plant (Jim Denley / Eric Normand): II

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 26761
Catalog Code: TDB89032cd
Country: France
 
Price: $15.95



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Separated by 1,000 KMs and speaking a different language, the collaboration of Quebec bassist Eric Normand and Australian saxophonist Jim Denley, both dedicated experimenters, share a common aesthetic in free improvisation as they release their third album: five dialogs using reeds, electric bass, drums, objects and tools to create unusual sonic conversations.


Surruralists, Les (Bull / Normand / Grossman / Jacques / Berirau): La Way Qu'a Do

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 26759
Catalog Code: TDB89033cd
Country: France
 
Price: $15.95



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Slyly crossing modern improv and EAI approaches in a surreal take on early bottleneck, banjo and slide blues styles from the Quebec quintet of Arthur Bull on harmonica, voice, guitar & electronics, Eric Normand on banjo, voice & bass, Ben Grossman on "old wheel", Anne-Francoise Jacques on engines, and Gabriel Rochette on trombone; sincere and eccentric.


Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere, Louis / Eric Normand / Louis-Vincent Hamel: Brulez les Meubles

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 26102
Catalog Code: none
Country: France
 
Price: $15.95



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Seeking to extend the guitar trio into new and unique territory, the Quebec trio of Eric Normand on electric bass, Louis Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere on electric guitar, and Louis-Vincent Hamel on drums, reference performers like Jim Hall, Sonny Sharrock, John Abercrombie, & Bill Frisell while focusing on harmolodic force and unusual melodic lines.


Charles, Xavier / Michel F Cote / Franz Hautzinger / Philippe Lauzier / Eric Normand: Torche!

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 25238
Catalog Code: TB90002cd
Country: France
 
Price: $15.95



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An exceptional free improvising quintet of Montreal & Quebec improvisers--bassist Eric Normand, drummer Michel F. Cote, and bass clarinetist Philippe Lauzier--with French clarinetist Xavier Charles and German trumpeter Franz Hautzinger, performing live during the 2016 Festival de Musique de Creation, creating fascinating commotion with incredible restraint.


Normand, Eric: Mattempa

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 22594
Catalog Code: TD890118cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Based on Canadian physician & author Jacques Ferron's book "Gaspe Mattempa", bassist Eric Normad leads a quintet into a mythological audio world with Raphael Arsenault (violin), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet), Alexandre Robichaud (trumpet) & Antoine Letourneau-Berger (percussion).


GGRIL (Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation Liberee): Geste

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 22024
Catalog Code: 90015
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Eric Normand's Quebec based 12-piece GGRIL (Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation) in an album of 5 improvisations and a piece by percussionist Danielle P. Roger; wonderfully creative music with eclectic instrumentation that's simultaneously challenging and fun.


Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand: Not the Music / do

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 20297
Catalog Code: TBD90022cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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The Canadian duo of reedist Philippe Lauzier and bassist Eric Normand freely improvise in sound environments that are both introspective and precarious, using subtle and aberrant approaches to playing that evoke unusual aspects of their instruments in oddly refined dialog.


Surruralist(e)s, The/Le: Sortablue

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 19956
Catalog Code: None
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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The duo of Arthur Bull on guitars & harmoia and Eric Normand on electric bass and tenor banjo, and both on voice, taking on American rural songs--delta blues, cajun music, and Quebecois laments, &c--with a modern eye and a good sense of humor.


Prevost, Helene: A La Plage

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 19723
Catalog Code: TDB0009cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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A mix of sound art and improvisation from Quebec/Actuelle musician Helene Prevost, 10 minimal "Plages", or luminous surfaces, created with Eric Normand, Stephae Claude, and Mario Gauthier.


GGRIL (Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation Liberee): Combines [VINYL]

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 18236
Catalog Code: TDB 990001LP
Country: Canada
 
Price: $19.95



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The GGRIL is a Canadian ensemble of musicians who experiment with various forms of interactions possible in an orchestra without a conductor, bringing together a dozen musicians from different backgrounds.


Parker, Evan & GGRIL (Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation Liberee): Vivaces

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 16279
Catalog Code: TDB 9006
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Le Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation Liberee (GGRIL) of the St. Lawrence region is conducted by British saxophonist Evan Parker in this live concert held in Rimouski after a workshop hosted by Evan Parker.


Normand 5, Eric: Sur Un Fil

Label: Setola Di Maiale
Product Code: 16278
Catalog Code: SM2180
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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Bassist Eric Normand's compositions showcase the incredibly talented quintet of James Darling (cello), Antoine Letourneau-Berger (vibes), Michel F. Cote (drums/feedback) and Jean Derome (flute, sax, birdcall).


Normand, Eric: Data (Low-Fi Duets)

Label: Monotype
Product Code: 16187
Catalog Code: mono047
Country: Poland
 
Price: $14.95



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Bassist Eric Normand also builds unusual noise devices and stomp boxes, which he performs here in duos with Martin Tetreault, Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour, Sebastien Cirotteau, and Mario Gauthier.


Denley / Lauzier / Martel / Myhr / Normand: Transition de Phase

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 14201
Catalog Code: TDB9005
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Intense and understated electro-acoustic improvisation from saxophonists Jim Denley and Philippe Lauzier, electronic artist Pierre-Yves Martel, guitaris Kim Myhr and bassis Eric Normand.


Roger, Danielle Palardy: Pinta, Nina & Maria

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 13883
Catalog Code: AM_201
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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3 live recordings from 3 ensembles - GGRIL, Ensemble SuperMusique and ECM+ - exploring relationsips between early music and contemporary creative music; with Jean Derome, Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Bernard Falaise, &c. &c.


Normand, Eric & Bent Spoon Duo: Circuitry

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 13877
Catalog Code: bim-41
Country: Canada
 
Price: $10.95



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The Bent Spoon Duo of Chris Dadge and Scott Munro met bassist Eric Normand (Tour De Bras, Ambiances Magnetiques) while Normand was on tour to record these ragged electro-acoustic improvisations.


P.O.W.E.R.: Tomahawk Territory

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 06209
Catalog Code: TDB CD9003
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Trio improvisations with guitar, violin, and an assortment of noise elements, thoughtful pieces that use space wisely as they prepare for vicious attacks of sound.








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