Contemporary pianist Jean-Michel Blais has released eviction sessions, the follow up EP to his 2018 Polaris Music Prize shortlisted album, Dans ma main. The new 5-song EP, released via Arts & Crafts / Caroline Australia, was recorded live in his Montreal apartment shortly before being evicted.
“In the spring of 2018, I was asked to leave the beloved apartment where lived for 7 years, and where I recorded my first album, Il,” explains Blais. “Before signing with Arts & Crafts, I would host one show a year in the intimacy of my bedroom. eviction sessions is a recording of my final pop-up concert in that apartment, and my way to say goodbye to that room… Friends and family, side by side on the floor, on my bed, sharing the silence of their breathing, I wanted to record a live album in a unique way that would capture the presence of them being.”
The resulting live recording is a five-song EP featuring new piano-only recordings of three vocal and electronic-heavy tracks from Dans ma main, “blind”, “igloo” and “chanson”, as well as two new songs,“sans titre (andante)” and “hutchinson (improvisation)”.
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