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Eric Normand and Isaiah Ceccarelli
Eric and Isaiah met in a band project leaded by Robert Bastien in 2007. After while, Eric ask Isaiah to be part of his quintet Musique de Batailles - album to be release on Editions Nolimit (France).
They also play as a trio with Lori Freedman on clarinets.
Éric Normand is a composer, improviser, bassist, instrument designer, and record and concert producer, all in one. He defines himself as an epidisciplinary musician, a free electron driven by its yearning for meetings. In his book, composition cannot exist without exchange, since composition consists in setting up a territory that will facilitate improvisation.The interlocutors who have taken part to his numerous composition and production projects are sound engineers, radio producers, musicians, and sound artists. Living in a remote location (Rimouski), he ponders the concept of distance. He builds portable instruments and involves musicians in projects designed with very basic or high-tech communication tools. When he wanders around, he likes to improvises. His latest such meetings have featured Pierre-Yves Martel, Danielle Palardy Roger, Magali Babin and Anne-Françoise Jacques. His music has been programmed by or performed in several festivals in Canada (Festival de Musiques de Création — Jonquière, Reflux — Moncton, Productions SuperMusique — Montréal, Mois Multi — Québec, etc.) and Europe (Festival Rue du Nord — Switzerland, Festival des Musiques Insolentes — France, Les Rencontres à l’Échelle — France, etc). They have also been broadcasted by Radio-Canada, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, Radio-Grenouille, and several college radio stations.
http://www.eric-normand.com/
A resolutely unique and engaging drummer, Isaiah Ceccarelli is active in both improvised music and composition in Montréal. His first album, lieux-dits, released on Ambiances Magnétiques in 2006, was received as « one of the most original approaches to come through our offices in recent times » (Marc Chénard, La Scena musicale ) and « a writing style with rare personality in this musical context » (Thierry Lepin, Jazzman Magazine). Isaiah Ceccarelli is presently implicated in several creative projects with Montréal musicians : the trio Steppe (Alexandre Grogg and Clinton Ryder) and gambist Pierre-Yves Martel's audacious ensemble, Quartetski does Prokofiev and Quartetski does Satie. Isaiah plays often with Jean Derome, Michel F Côté (their duo album Vulgarités was released in December 2008 on Ambiances Magnétiques), Philippe Lauzier, Lori Freedman et Joshua Zubot, but also with Acadian singer Marie-Jo Thério. He writes for his own ensemble Terre rouge terre noire, a group with two singers and a chamber ensemble of improvisers, and performs with Terre rouge pierres blanches : a sister project based in France with members of the ensemble Diabolus in Musica. Isaiah speaks French, English, Catalan and un pauc d'occitan
http://www.actuellecd.com/en/bio/ceccarelli_is/
Photo:
Sebastien Rabouin