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Having released 6 albums to date, L' Auguste Quartet are back with music for a new album, “Particules Sonores”. This group is an exciting element of modern jazz, presented in a very personal way. It's a story that speaks, that moves, that evolves. The musicians play with time and space with great spirit. The production has as much potential for individual playing as for teamwork. A fan of acoustic formulas, as was the case with previous projects, the new project of comparable formation, which bears the name “Particules sonores”, allows us to perceive the great complicity between high-flying musicians where the possible question of generation is quickly sketched out by the natural force of a creative synergy. The exchange between the musicians, the climates and the ideas of the ensemble are both bare and accessible! Under the power of Mario Allard (sax); the subtlety of Marie-Fatima Rudolf (piano); the determination of Alain Bédard (double bass) and the ardor of Michel Lambert (drums), the sound waves produced become particularly bewitching.

Auguste led by Alain Bédard and for whom he is a composer, start his 27th season of creation. The Auguste quartet is currently preparing the music for a new album in the form of quantum "Particules Sonores", unquantifiable in time and space. 

Mario Allard soprano and alto saxophones; Marie-Fatima Rudolf piano, compositions; Alain Bédard double bass, compositions; Michel Lambert drums, compositions

Known as the founder of Quebec prestigious jazz label Effendi Records and producer of many albums on the label, Alain Bédard is also and above all an accomplished bass player, but also a visionary organizer. Thus the creation of the "Québec Jazz", he set up bold projects, unpublished to open structures dating, clever shifts that have crossed Canada, Europe, USA and Asia.The last project "Quebec jazz" has been presented at the Jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York in collaboration with Yves Léveillé Productions, l'Auguste quartet and Donny McCaslin on saxophones like special guest. Other "Québec Jazz Connexion" concerts are planned in Europe in the fall of 2024 and 2025.

After having played "Circum Continuum" on several continents from 2016 to 2019, the Auguste quartet returns with a new opus that brews the readings of time, contrasts and atmospheres as sound climates. With "Exalta calma", Auguste invites us to superimpose two entities that could suggest an invariable distance that animates the interior of a painting, a person and / or even a sound. The music of the quartet does not show up to the excitement of speed, but the shivers and the elasticity of the sentences that with the arrival of saxophonist Mario Allard, boiling of life, energy and exultation.

The Auguste quartet is still playing music from the "Exalta Calma" album this season 2024. 

Musicians : Mario Allard :  alto & soprano saxophones; Marie-Fatima Rudolf : piano; (Félix Stüssi : piano, compositions on the album); Alain Bédard : acoustic bass, compositions, Michel Lambert : drums