New album entitled Portrait Landscape, performed by my group, the Genius Loci Ensemble. If you visit the album on Bandcamp you can read notes on the individual tracks or order a very limited edition hard copy compact disc as of September 21, 2024. The title is a play on...

Introducing Friday Night Inn, the new music label created by van garden and beamer!, aka JJ and Theo! New album, Popstar! The first release was van garden’s Poetic Reconstruction, vol. 1: Montreal. It is also the first in a series of releases inspired by the spirit of place, childhood...

New music out now! When adolescence and menopause meet! And with the creative goal of telling new stories, this is the portrait of the artist as a young man as perceived by myself, his mother. Because women need to sing about their lives at all stages, including moments like...

Great news! The Lady of the Lake music video will be screening in Finland in September 2024! Like the loons, I am swimming in music we recorded over the past two years and working through mixing and mastering it while life interrupts here and there. I am making progress...

Having grown up in Sudbury in Northern Ontario I have always related to the first part of the song Helpless as Neil Young writes about a town in North Ontario. Further study on the background of the song makes me understand why he didn’t say Northern Ontario instead –...

**Currently in production: Portrait/Landscape, a new music album by Jeannette Lambert’s Genius Loci Ensemble.** When I first heard pansori music I was struck by the raw emotion of the vocals, the intensity of the rhythm and I was determined to learn more. Pansori is traditional Korean folk music based...

“prismatic textural universe … a deep dive into the emotional power of resonances” TheWholeNote (Canada) Out now, Michel’s new recording Ars Transmutatoria Iku-turso! The music was recorded in Helsinki as he gathered a group of talented musicians, Jorma Tapio flute, saxophone, Raoul Björkenheim guitar, Sampo Lassila double bass, old...

This experimental jazz opera is a musical investigation into the mysteries of an ancestral tragedy from WWII, as revealed through vocal rituals, ancestral tarot, free jazz and dreaming. With this work I wanted to answer several questions. The first was, what could I do to honour ancestors who were...

Welcome to Michel’s Ars Transmutatoria virtual museum! You can enter the exhibition space and take a tour of the visual scores at the core of the upcoming music release. As well as inventing this virtual exhibition for you, Michel has created a limited edition boxed set that includes four...