Face À L'Est, by Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts

Face À L'Est

by Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts

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1.	Can't Cheat With Concrete 10:08	buy track
2.	DomDom 09:12	buy track
3.	Les Gans 08:26	buy track
4.	Harmattan 09:27	buy track
5.	Yenon 09:55	buy track
6.	Ze Blob 08:39	buy track
7.	They Only Come Out At Night 08:22	buy track

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This is the debut full-length album by Montréal's Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts. Since the turn of the millennium, Guillaume Coutu Dumont has established himself as a near Svengali-esque character within the group of musicians associated with Montreal's Mutek festival. Though the festival's influence has spawned countless creative collaborations, none of the other players have made their own voice heard so clearly amongst the comedic madness said collaborations have so often produced. Whether working alongside Julien Roy as Egg, David Fafard as Luci, Ernesto Ferrerya as Chic Miniature, or under Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts moniker, a distinctive blend of classic house sensibilities and crystal clear digital production techniques have always revealed his unmistakable creative influence. Though classically-trained as a percussionist, his productions to date have seemed to draw greater influence from his academic research in electro-acoustics then any long-forgotten rhythmic tradition. In searching for the inspiration for his debut album, Face à L'est, Guillaume Coutu Dumont spent several months in Senegal, living with a family of musicians and traveling around the country with a jazz ensemble. It was during this trip that he became "deeply impressed by the relation between music and movement." It is this exact relationship which clearly leads the way through Face à L'est's various rhythmic excursions. Whether drawing inspiration from field recordings made of the morning in Sael Desert, or simply the happy nights spent Dakar, or the impossibly hot Harmattan winds, Guillaume Coutu Dumont weaves a rich tapestry of organic percussion and futuristic textures into an inescapably funky rhythmic whole. A debut album not to be missed.

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released November 6, 2007

Saxophone: Sébastien Arcand-Tourigny

Mixed by Guillaume Coutu Dumont and Julien Roy
Artwork: Gabriel Coutu Dumont/Janicke Morissette
Mutek_Rec/ Musique Risquée

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Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts Montreal, Québec

After studies in electroacoustics, Latin and classical percussion, Guillaume Coutu Dumont established himself as fixture of Montréal's leftfield microhouse and techno scene. A move to Paris first then Berlin in 2007 hatched solo project Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts, a propulsive fusion of house, jazz, gospel, techno, and Afrobeat. ... more

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