Country : Quebec Label : Cunneiform Genres and styles : expérimental / contemporain / Prog Rock Year : 2024

Pascal Globensky – Zigzag (Top Albums 2024)

· by Réjean Beaucage

Co-founder of the band Miriodor in 1980, keyboardist Pascal Globensky offers us here a collection of sketches, demos, and other compositional embryos accumulated over the past 10 years. Considering that five years passed between Miriodor’s ninth album (Signal 9, 2017) and their “pandemic” opus (Elements, 2022), it’s safe to assume that the prolific Globensky wanted to clear his shelves and make room for new ideas. But there’s a lot more to it than that!

Of course, Miriodor’s signature is there for all to see. And, by the way, his acolytes Rémi Leclerc (drums), Bernard Falaise (guitars) and Nicolas Lessard (bass) can be heard here and there, participating mainly indirectly in the adventure. But on the whole, the 11 pieces on the program are the fruit of looping and clever computer collages. The general atmosphere is playful, and the composer’s imagination, with titles such as Machu Picchu, Dancing Horses and Danse des caméléons, remains rooted in Miriodian surrealism, with its elastic juggling and Cobra fakir.

A good way to prepare leftovers, which, as everyone knows, are often better the next day. Some of the pieces found here, which began life as a presentation to his band before being abandoned, may well end up deserving live performances by Miriodor. Zigzag is a fine metaphor for the work of Globensky, whose music is often choppy, moving from one rhythm to another without warning, but it’s a pleasure to follow her on these winding paths.

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