Articles by Eric Hill

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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...

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  Klimperei and Madame Patate

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  The French duo of Émilie Siaut (aka Madame Patate) and Christophe Petchanatz (Klimperei) are a bit of an anomaly in the predominantly objec...

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  Rainer Weins

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  Debuting as a composer and conductor after a couple of decades appearing at FIMAV in an array of ensembles and musical duties, Montreal´s o...

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  Peter Brötzmann, Heather Leigh and Keiji Haino

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  The musical partnership between Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh is one of those anomalies akin to the internet memes of bonds between arm...

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  Bang on a Can All-Stars

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  Bang on a Can, from NYC, have been around in some form or other for almost as long as the 35 years of the Festival International de Musique...