(Ambiances Magnetiques - www.actuellecd.com)
[Genres: experimental, electronic, avant-garde]

This CD had one song from sixteen different records, all by different artists. Because of this wide variety, there’s something for everybody. The third track, Robert Marcel Lepage and Martin Tetreault’s "Profondeur de champ" was a very peaceful song that blended old instruments like the clarinet with the newer sounds of the synthesizer. Track five by Pierre Cartier was in the same category.

For someone who likes their music in a freer form would like Jean Derome and Joane Hetu’s "Lea" which was mostly voices making different sounds, telling a kind of story. Most of the songs on this record tell a story more than other types of music would by using a variety of instruments in ways that aren’t conventional, everything from a train to what sounded like a fart. Track ten could almost have been taken from a movie’s background music (preferably a movie with aliens). Bells and cymbals were favourite instruments of the artists on here, as well as the synthesizer.

Problem I had with it were that the introductions to most songs were very long and not very interesting, usually almost a minute of just background noise like TV static and some of the songs sounded very similar to each other to the point where one melted into the other. But this I guess is typical of music itself.