Excerpts from Montreal's Ensemble

Release date: January 25th, 2011
Genre: post-rock, pop, ambient, musique francophone

Highlights include "Les saisons viennent", "Valse des objets trouvés", and "Imprints". Montreal-based composer Olivier Alary is the mastermind behind Ensemble. The amount of attention paid to detail on Excerpts blew me away. Listen to "Valse des objets trouvés" below:

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Despite its title, the Drop covers all genres, including EDM. It focussed primarily on the local Toronto scene until 2013, after which most of my written music coverage shifted to The B-Side, a publication friends and I founded at UC Berkeley. During that time, this page has held more poetry and personal musings, but as of 2017, I'm back to covering what I did best here -- new and unique sounds.

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