Jean-Michel Blais

Jean-Michel Blais Crafts Lush, Life-Affirming Compositions on 'aubades'

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2022

For Jean-Michel Blais, aubades is a rebirth. From its opening notes, its whisks listeners away. On the new album from the esteemed post-cla...

Exclaim!'s 32 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2022

PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2022

Well, 2021 certainly happened, didn't it? The big thing about time, though — maybe even its defining feature — is that it just keeps on tru...

Jean-Michel Blais Shares "mumures" Ahead of New Album

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2021

Jean-Michel Blais has announced a new album with the arrival of single "murmures." The Montreal-based musician's latest, which he calls a t...

Jean-Michel Blais Details Soundtrack for 'Matthias & Maxime'

PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2019

Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime received its world premiere at Cannes this past May, and Jean-Michel Blais has now detailed his accompanyi...

Jean-Michel Blais Gets Kid Koala, CFCF for Remix EP

PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2019

Jean-Michel Blais' sophomore LP Dans ma main was one of our Top Experimental and Modern Composition albums of 2018, and the pianist has now...

Here Are the Top 20 Finalists for the 2019 Prism Prize

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2019

The Prism Prize will once again be awarded to the best Canadian music video, and the list of 2019 finalists has just been revealed. Among...

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Experimental & Modern Composition Albums

Best of 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2018

Our Top 10 Experimental & Modern Composition Albums of 2018 list is a little different than our lists of years prior. Typically, this one a...

Canadian Composers Like Jeremy Dutcher, Chilly Gonzales and Jean-Michel Blais Broke Free in 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2018

Boundaries feel increasingly obsolete, yet more profoundly real than ever, and as such, the year's most forward-thinking music came from co...