A keyboard/drum duo isn’t exactly common… Moreover, this kind of duo formed by Simon Côté-Lapointe and Magella Cormier. The two iconoclasts have been working together for about twenty years (on various projects). Under their two contiguous names, we particularly appreciated the album Topochronies from 2024. You could hear the kind of controlled and focused sonic delirium that is noted here, but perhaps more polished, sometimes lyrical, sometimes recognisable jazz. Singularities pushes independence and tethered anarchy to new ecstatic heights.
From noise music to free jazz, passing through psychedelic funk and pseudo-soundtrack, woven with synthetic threads that are both experimental, avant-garde, and classic eighties’ (some pieces evoke the universe of Brad Fiedel in the music of Terminator, the original in 1984), one revels in the explosion of emotionally visceral abandon of the generous suite of 17 tracks. Generous indeed, perhaps even too much, rendered at a certain point. Nevertheless, even if we have to take a break somewhere in the middle, we have a blast and really enjoy these Singularities.
The kind of album you don’t see coming, before being completely stunned by its originality, its audacity, and the unexpected pleasure it brings.
Simon Côté-Lapointe: Korg minilogue keyboards, Crumar Mojo 61, Novation MiniNova, vocals Magella Cormier: drums, percussion
