{"id":168035,"date":"2026-11-07T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/gig_review\/salle-bourgie-hall-masmoudi-quartette-vibrations-universelles-vibra-album-concert-montreal\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:00:38","slug":"salle-bourgie-hall-masmoudi-quartette-vibrations-universelles-vibra-album-concert-montreal","status":"publish","type":"gig_review","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/gig_review\/salle-bourgie-hall-masmoudi-quartette-vibrations-universelles-vibra-album-concert-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Salle Bourgie | The Enchanting Vibrations of the Masmoudi Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Masmoudi Quartet’s brand new concert, titled Vibrations universelles,<\/em> is linked to the release of the album Vibra<\/em>. An appropriate title for the event, which leaves us with an impression of a gentle and benevolent purring, steeped in a warmth that is both thermometric and humanistic. To learn more about this project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ THE INTERVIEW WITH MOHAMMED MASMOUDI <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ THE REVIEW OF THE ALBUM<\/strong> VIBRA<\/em><\/strong> BY THE MASMOUDI QUARTETTE <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concert itself serves as a springboard for the album’s music, which I discuss in more detail in the link above. It is enough to say that all the positive impressions received during the listening of the recording are confirmed, but in an even more organic way. The presence of the musicians themselves and their camaraderie, their apparent pleasure in playing this music, and of course their spontaneous improvisations creating new expressive spaces, different from those captured by digital recording, all of this creates an absolutely charming sonic and emotional bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The live performance thus takes on its full meaning, weaving the link between the principle put forward by Mohammed Masmoudi (the vibrations that unite us) and the factual experience of the thing. Yesterday, a well-filled room of very diverse individuals buzzed collectively, thanks to the small musical portraits, happy marriages of three different expressive refinements: Western chamber music, jazz, and Arabic classical music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masmoudi, who wrote all the pieces, is a gifted melodist. He knows how to capture attention with seductive, soothing lines, even in the more lively or dance-like movements. But these melodies are never left lazily maintained in their initial state. He develops them, allowing them to take all sorts of detours, to shiver and tremble here and there, under the touch of the excellent artists surrounding him: Yannick Anctil, beautifully delicate in his piano playing, Vanessa Marcoux, a seasoned technician on the violin, but above all an effective and superbly expressive improviser, and then R\u00e9mi-Jean Leblanc, an indefatigable rhythmic and harmonic pillar on the double bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n