Gentiane MG – Walls Made of Glass

Walls Made of Glass is a seductive metaphor for spiritual and sensory openness to the world around us, and is the basis for this third opus by Montreal-based Gentiane MG (Michaud-Gagnon). The pandemic (and the multiple confinements associated with it) has had the effect of awakening in some artists a visceral need to enter into sensory communication with the outside world, whether it manifests itself in the form of fellow human beings, fauna, flora, or simply the zeitgeist of our time.

Through writing based on the harmonic-rhythmic relationship typical of post-EST jazz, but also delicate flirtations with the atonalism of modern chamber music, Gentiane allows herself to be totally impregnated by the sensory and metaphorical world that surrounds her, thanks to its light and its movements. As if, despite the obligation to remain enclosed, glass walls had allowed us to remain holistically bathed in the beauty around us at all times.

Sometimes intensely engaged, more often contemplative or vaguely chill, the young Quebecer’s compositions invite us on a journey that is both impressionistic and symbolist. The titles of the pieces will be the starting points for aural adventures charged with poetry and spirituality. Gentiane is adequately supported by Levi Dover on double bass and Louis-Vincent Hamel on drums.