FIMAV

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  Julien Desprez

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  French guitarist Julien Desprez's technique might require the coining of a new musical field — pedal dancer — a field wherein he immediatel...

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  Kim Myhr

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  There is something about the balance between easy apprehension and surprise in Norwegian guitarist/composer Kim Myhr's music that delights...

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  Konus Quartett and Tomas Korber

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  While deliberate and considered are not alien adjectives to apply to many performances at FIMAV, few this year earned them as thoroughly as...

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  Moor Mother and Roscoe Mitchell

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  On paper, this pairing seems strange. Elder statesman of jazz Roscoe Mitchell — founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, which celeb...

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  Philippe Lauzier and Éric Normand

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  A strong opening and closing can really make a performance, and that is where Montreal's Philippe Lauzier and Rimouski's Éric Normand reall...

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  Vijay Iyer Sextet

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  Pianist Vijay Iyer is at that point in his career, just past 40 years old, where his status as a promising new voice is near fully mutated...

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  Barre Phillips

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  Bassist Barre Phillips would not appreciate the mention of his age, though he referred to it obliquely in one of his between-piece addresse...

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  Elena Kakaliagou / Ingrid Schmoliner

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  Early on in the concert, Elena Kakaliagou described a song she and her musical partner Ingrid Schmoliner would play as being about displace...