L'Infonie
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In the early '70s, L'Infonie was the leader of the countercultural movement in Montreal. The band's complex compositions and propensity for {free improvisation}, coupled with its stage antics and {pop}-{spiritual} philosophy, make it the cult band in the history of the Montreal {avant-garde} music. Its four long-deleted LPs remained items much sought after by collectors all over the world.
L'Infonie was born out of the meeting of two very strange men in 1967. Raôul Duguay (born February 13, 1939, in Val d'Or, Quebec), a trumpeter and poet already with two books published, met saxophonist Walter Boudreau at a poetry-music happening in Montreal. They began to improvise and an eternal friendship was born. They quickly put together L'Infonie, a contemporary {jazz-rock} orchestra workshop usually involving a dozen musicians (there might be as many as 24 at times) that quickly became part of every artistic happening in Montreal. Duguay and Boudreau developed a whole concept around L'Infonie, mostly drawn from oriental philosophy and all the ideologies that would later crystallize in the {
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L'Infonie was born out of the meeting of two very strange men in 1967. Raôul Duguay (born February 13, 1939, in Val d'Or, Quebec), a trumpeter and poet already with two books published, met saxophonist Walter Boudreau at a poetry-music happening in Montreal. They began to improvise and an eternal friendship was born. They quickly put together L'Infonie, a contemporary {jazz-rock} orchestra workshop usually involving a dozen musicians (there might be as many as 24 at times) that quickly became part of every artistic happening in Montreal. Duguay and Boudreau developed a whole concept around L'Infonie, mostly drawn from oriental philosophy and all the ideologies that would later crystallize in the {
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