Forgotten Treasure: Leroux “Leroux” (1979)
It’s always exciting these days to hear deep records from your home (Quebec French music) on an international mix or compilation. Just a few weeks ago, I was quite surprised to find out long time London collector and DJ Mark ‘Good Vibes’ Taylor (La Homage/Reference Point) selected a track called …
“Québec Summer Special Mix” by Soirées Textures
A sunny, laid back mix of french-only and vinyl-only tracks from Quebec, courtesy of Soirées Textures. Enjoy with a drink. TRACKLIST Georges Thurston – De ville en ville Claude Dubois – Le Troubadour Yves Laferrière – Merida! Merida! Gilles Rivard – Con Tigo Siempre (Toujours avec toi) Jacques Blais & …
8 Montreal-based DJ’s pick their most influential Quebec Record
As we prepare to celebrate our yearly provincial holiday (called St-Jean Baptiste) with a really nice party with tons of great local DJ’s (info here) we thought it would be appropriate to ask everyone on the lineup to present one Quebecois record that was influential in their career. It’s easy …
Forgotten Treasure: Gilles Rivard “En couleurs” (1981)
Listening to records by French Canadian artists from the late seventies-early eighties period like Georges Thurston (also known as Boule Noire), Dwight Druick or Diane Tell, you kind of wonder what was really happening during that time. Good music was all around and it’s nearly all forgotten these days. You …
Forgotten Treasure: Quintonal ”Quintonal” (1976)
Quebec has produced many vinyl gems in various musical genres that have, for the most part, significantly outshone the other provinces output. It seems, however, that when it come to Jazz, our province is not the best in the country. Well the Quintonal reissue (released this month by Jazzagression records) …
Forgotten Treasure : Diane Tell “En pleurer ou en rire” (1977)
Producers of soulful and funky musique Québecoise during the late 70s and early 80s weren’t so numerous. I’m thinking of the duo JF William & Serge Laporte known as Bill, Georges Thurston also known as Boule Noire who ran the Magique record label around that time. As for female singers/composers, …