Ensemble Infini are an octet centred around Canadian drumming legend, Guy Thouin (founding member of Quatuor de Jazz libre du Qubec).

Literally born out of a basement in Montreal’s Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie neighborhood, the Ensemble Infini gelled into a sextet at the Festival du nouveau cinma in 2022, morphing less than a year later into a tentet at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, an offering that swung between ‘structured decorum’ and ‘maelstrom’ with ‘wit and intensity’.

This incredible album is the result of an expansively intricate session like no other one in Guy Thouin’s sixty-year career behind the drum kit; an exceptional and bountiful exploration of what inter-generational music making sparks off when infused with a healthy dose of playful, tongue-in-cheek irreverence. This is what experimentalists tapping into the embodied histories of a free jazz drummer extraordinaire (with no shortage of musical lives) sound like. This is the Ensemble Infini.

Track Listing

• Free Parking Transcendantal
• Japtala/Milford Spirit
• Tabla Plus
• Rock Memory
• Guy mdite et rsonne
• Black Hole
• Industrial Jazz
• Cartoon
• Opus II
• Requiem & Fanfare (pour Peter B.)
• Sainte-Marie-Blonde-de-Guy
• Halloween Qubec
• Dream Story
• Le sous-sol libre

Additional Details

Label:Cellar live

Genre:Jazz

Language:English

Run Time:72:17 mins

Region:0

Release Date:05/01/26

UPC:628308831562