Flabbergast^CA/QC

After studying electroacoustic composition and Latin and classical percussion, Guillaume Coutu Dumont established himself as a staple of the Montreal electronic scene with the Egg project alongside Julien Roy, Luci with David Fafard and Chic Miniature with Ernesto Ferreyra. In 2006 he moved first to Paris and then to Berlin, where he developed his first solo project Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts fusing jazz, Afrobeat and electronic music. Various collaborations followed, such as Muséum, an experimental and ambient music collective, as well as the quintet Guillaume & The Side Effects. Back in Montreal, 10 years later, Guillaume focused on the Flabbergast project, worked on a new project called Auflassen, a trio composed of keyboards, drums, electronic music and real-time processing and developed the synth-heavy project The Empires.

For twenty years, Vincent Lemieux has touched virtually every aspect of music production. He began his apprenticeship as a DJ and subsequently undertook brief studies in electroacoustic composition at Concordia University. He worked as a buyer in a record store specialising in electronic music before opening his own shop, and in 2001 joined the programming team of the prestigious MUTEK festival with which he has been actively involved in developing the local scene as well as influencing it abroad for nineteen years. In 2003, he founded the Musiquee Risquée record label with Montreal artist Akufen (Marc Leclair), allowing him to multiply his involvement in all aspects of music production and distribution. As part of Flabbergast, as well as a solo composer, Vincent Lemieux maintains a busy touring schedule both locally and internationally.

Nacido de una colaboración única en el contexto de un lanzamiento de MUTEK_rec, Flabbergast, Guillaume Coutu Dumont y Vincent Lemieux, ha seguido desarrollándose a partir de entonces. Centrados desde hace más de diez años en actuaciones en directo totalmente improvisadas, el grupo se ha enfocado, desde 2014, en la composición y en aumentar sus lanzamientos.

La música de Flabbergast extrae sus influencias de las cuatro esquinas de la música electrónica, pero también del jazz, el hip hop y la música contemporánea. La complementariedad de los campos de especialización de cada uno de los compositores permite ampliar el espectro de las composiciones del grupo. Estilísticamente, no se prohíbe ninguna influencia musical.