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Building off their sold out performance during the globally-celebrated 2016 Red Bull Music Academy, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCascades\u003c\/span\u003e is a stunning 5-song, 30-minute meeting-of-minds that navigates the spaces between the artists’ respective crafts and tendencies toward playful minimalism. Featuring new versions from the duo’s catalogues, a reworking of John Cage’s “In A Landscape”, and a brand new, classical-meets-trance original composition, “Hypocrite”, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCascades\u003c\/span\u003e is a celebration of the traditional and experimental, dissolving the old into the new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Hasselblad 1\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Two Mirrors\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Spirit\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Hypocrite\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. 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Grâce à un habile mélange entre savoir-faire classique, sensibilité pop précise et accompagnement synthétique, Blais parvient à créer un environnement unique dans lequel l’intimité du piano peut être gentiment bouleversée à tout instant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDans ma main évolue entre harmonie et tension dans une double spirale d’arpèges acoustiques et électroniques, de techno, de musique industrielle, d’ambient et de new age, le tout au travers du piano solo de Blais.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDans ma main reflète une vie quotidienne bercée par la spiritualité, une réalité née du fait que pour Blais, la musique est aussi une forme de thérapie. Fasciné par la réaction très forte du public partout dans le monde à ses spectacles, Blais considère la musique comme un outil ayant apporté le bien-être dans sa vie, depuis le début de sa carrière en tant qu’éducateur spécialisé jusqu’à l’utilisation faite par ses parents de l’ambient pour alléger les symptômes du syndrôme de Tourette dont il souffrait enfant. Les nouvelles compositions de Jean-Michel font inconsciemment écho à ces périodes de sa vie en réinventant une sérénité qu’il n’avait jusqu’alors trouvée qu’assis à son piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLa musique de Blais, composée avec bien davantage que les simples notes de la gamme, fait preuve d’une grande profondeur émotionnelle bien qu’aucun texte ne s’y joigne. 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Comme le dit Blais : \"Comme les pièces d’un puzzle mystérieux, comme un miroir flou, l’espoir est là, à portée de main, entre nos mains, celles avec lesquelles nous aimons, échouons, prions, volons, donnons, essayons, payons, plumons, grattons, touchons, jouons et nous tenons par la main.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e1) forteresse\u003cbr\u003e2) roses\u003cbr\u003e3) outsiders\u003cbr\u003e4) dans ma main\u003cbr\u003e5) blind\u003cbr\u003e6) god(s)\u003cbr\u003e7) igloo\u003cbr\u003e8) sourdine\u003cbr\u003e9) a heartbeat away\u003cbr\u003e10) chanson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e_____________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCD: 8 panel Softpak CD (18 point thickness), CD in right pocket, booklet in left, satin finish, 24 page booklet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLP: Single Sleeve jacket (satin finish), black single LP, printed inners, double sided insert \/ poster, download card\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDans ma main, the sophomore release by pianist and composer Jean-Michel Blais, is an expansive album of post-classical piano with strands of electronic detail. Blending his conservatory skill and precise pop sensibility with synthetic accompaniment, Blais creates unique environments where the piano’s intimacy can be subtly disrupted at any time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDans ma main weaves together expressive piano with austere synths in a double-helix of acoustic and electronic arpeggiation, tethering techno, industrial, ambient, and new age music to Blais’ solo piano essence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDans ma main explores an everyday life awash in spirituality, stemming from Blais’ interplay with music as therapy. Compelled by the cathartic air that audiences exude in his pin-drop performances, Blais considers how music has served as a tool of wellness in his own life. From his prior career in special education, to the role classical and ambient music played soothing the Tourettic symptoms he experienced as a child, Jean-Michel’s new compositions subconsciously call upon these periods of his life, reimagining a serenity he had only experienced seated at the piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecidedly not limited to the keys as his compositional palette, Blais’ music is imbued with an emotional depth that belies its wordlessness. His playing and composition are poetic in themselves, with an inspired understanding of the inherent lyricism in instrumental music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result, as Blais’ body of work unfurls, is the creation of a new musical forum where freshly sounded notes bounce back instantly with the magic and wisdom of shared space. Dans ma main captures but one moment of this infinite lineage, but with it comes the reminder of all the energy we hold in our own hands, in this moment. 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Le livre contient 68 pages et les compositions suivantes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edans ma main\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eroses\u003cbr\u003eoutsiders\u003cbr\u003edans ma main\u003cbr\u003eblind (acoustique)\u003cbr\u003eigloo (acoustique)\u003cbr\u003esourdine\u003cbr\u003ea heartbeat away\u003cbr\u003echanson\u003cbr\u003esans titre (andante)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e________________________________________________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJean-Michel Blais is a French Canadian composer and pianist from Montreal, Canada. Blais pairs the melodic pop sensibilities of Yann Tiersen and Chilly Gonzales with the breathtaking technical skill of minimalist composers like Philip Glass and Erik Satie. 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Fait inhabituel pour un long métrage, certaines pièces ont été d’abord créé, la scène a été tournée sur la musique, puis monter pour l’adapter à la musique plutôt que l’inverse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirectement approché par Dolan, Blais était impatient de prendre en charge le projet: « J’ai été touché, ému, incrédule… sans lire le script, j’ai tout de suite accepté. Après avoir grandi avec tous les films de Dolan, ce fut un choix simple d’annuler mes vacances et de me mettre au travail. 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