Ensemble Infini are an octet centred around Canadian drumming legend, Guy Thouin (founding member of Quatuor de Jazz libre du Québec).

Ensemble Infini is an intergenerational octet bringing together some of Montréal's most vital experimental musicians around legendary drummer Guy 'Yug' Thouin (Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec, l'Infonie). Their debut, Volume ∞, draws on six decades of Thouin's work, reanimating it as open, collective music--reshaped through improvisation and refracted through studio layering, overdubs, and subtle interventions into a richly textured sound world rooted in free jazz, yet at times unexpectedly psychedelic. '[...] this is an album like no other; this is the result of an expansively intricate session like no other one in Guy Thouin's sixty-year career behind the drum kit; this is an exceptional and bountiful exploration of what intergenerational music making sparks off when infused with a healthy dose of playful, tongue-in-cheek irreverence. This is what experimentalists tapping into the embodied histories of a free jazz drummer extraordinaire (with no shortage of musical lives) sound like. This is the Ensemble Infini. [...] Literally born out of a basement in Montreal's Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, the Ensemble Infini gelled into a sextet at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2022, morphing less than a year later into a tentet at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville--an offering that swung between 'structured decorum' and 'maelstrom,' with 'wit and intensity.' [...]' Featuring artwork by Marie Lemieux
Liner notes by Eric Fillion
2 x LP Limited to 500 copies

Bonus Materials

• **LIMITED EDITION - 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE - BLACK DOUBLE VINYL**

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Free Parking Transcendantal
• Jhaptala/Milford Spirit
• Tabla Plus
• Rock Memory
• Guy médite et résonne
• Black Hole
• Industrial Jazz
• Cartoon
• Opus II
• Requiem & Fanfare (pour Peter B.)
• Sainte-Marie-Blonde-de-Guy
• Halloween à Québec
• Dream Story
• Le sous-sol libre

Additional Details

Label: Cellar live

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 72:17 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/07/26

UPC: 628308831579