Cuneiform
2005
Parade + Live At Nearfest
About This Album
Everyone loves a Parade -- or at least they should love the CD by that name, the sixth Miriodor disc on the Cuneiform label, released as the band celebrated its 25th anniversary. The title is apt, as listeners are likely to feel as if they are indeed sitting in folding chairs at curbside, witnessing a particularly phantasmagorical array of parade floats roll past. The 16 tunes, ranging from less than a minute to nearly seven minutes in length, are often densely packed with ideas yet paradoxically light in feel, offering up something new for the senses at every turn. The music is both entertainingly accessible and startlingly inventive, filled with more sonic details than can be grasped in a single listen, with the keyboard voicings alone (vibes, marimba, accordion, harpsichord, grand piano, and Farfisa anyone?) causing the listener's head to spin, yet always used in service of the compositions in which they appear. Parade finds the core quartet of guitarist Bernard Falaise, keyboardist Pascal Globensky, drummer/electronician Rémi Leclerc, and bassist/keyboardist Nicolas Masino supplemented, as they were on 2001's Mekano, by saxophonist Marie-Chantal Leclair and violinist Marie-Soleil Bélanger on a number of tracks, adding additional voicings, melodies, and countermelodies to the often intricate arrangements.
Track List

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