Tag: experimental

Portrait Landscape

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 and order a very, very limited edition hard copy compact disc. The title is a play on words, as I enjoy...

Landscape: Under the Surface in Guadeloupe

New song out now! And new video! I travel with a mini studio and so when I tagged along with Michel and one of Alain Bédard’s groups on a tour in Guadeloupe I brought my gear. When the band was out at night I considered the spirit of place...

Gingko-infused portraits: new compositions

**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...

Opera of the Unspoken: Island of Unrest

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...

Michel Lambert’s Ars Transmutatoria in action

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...

Opera of the Unspoken: the creative process

Perhaps it is logical that after spending some time singing my dreams I find myself carried along by complex ancestral stories. And what is the next logical step when that happens? Over the past year I have been researching different ways to deal with this kind of magical material...