Misc
Partager l'ambulance
Misctape Vol.1
Misc
With an extended amount of experience touring across Canada and Europe under their arsenal the band Misc released their self-titled album in the Spring of 2016. That same year, the band was nominated in the category Jazz Album of the Year at the ADISQ Awards Gala and received the prize Jazz Album of the Year at GAMIQ Awards. The trio returned in full force in the Winter of 2021 with the album Partager l’ambulance which garnered critical acclaim in Quebec and internationally. With this audacious record, Misc continues their experimentation and further blurs the boundaries between jazz and other musical genres. Their sound is characterized by a solid jazz foundation fueled by electronic music, pop, rock and various samplings; thus making them one of the most daring and interesting bands in Quebec right now.
With an extended experience of several tours across Canada and Europe, the band Misc launched their self-titled album in the spring of 2016. That year, the album was nominated at the ADISQ Awards Gala in the category Jazz Album of the Year. and was the recipient of the Jazz Album of the Year at GAMIQ Awards. Winner of the Grand Prize at the Rimouski Jazz Fest in 2011, named Radio-Canada Revelation in 2014-15 and recipient of the Jazz Album of the Year at ADISQ Awards Gala in 2014, the trio returned in full force in the winter of 2021 with the album Partager l’ambulance, which translates to ‘’Sharing the Ambulance’’.
Critically acclaimed upon its release, Partager l'ambulance garnered attention both in Quebec and internationally; it was even praised by Gilles Peterson on the airwaves of the BBC. With this audacious record, Misc continues their experimentation and further blurs the boundaries between jazz and other musical genres.
Misc's sound is characterized by a solid jazz foundation fueled by electronic music, pop, rock and various samplings; thus making them one of the most daring and interesting bands in Quebec right now.
- Nominated in the category Jazz Album of the Year for Partager l’ambulance, GAMIQ (2021)
- Nominated in the category Album of the Year - Jazz for Partager l’ambulance, ADISQ (2021)
- Jazz Album of the Year for the album Misc at the GAMIQ Awards (2016)
- Jazz Album of the Year for Chercher l'équilibre, ADISQ (2014)
- Radio-Canada’s Breakthrough Jazz Artist for 2013-2014
Un disque visionnaire.
Philippe Renaud, Le DevoirOn Partager l'ambulance, Misc work hard in moving their craft — and the idea of sprightly Quebec jazz — forward, keeping their ears open to modern sounds and their minds open to even more resourceful ways of delivering them.
Exclaim!Misc transcende la tradition jazz dont il émane avec des références rock et électro, ainsi que de multiples échantillonnages.
Émilie Côté, La PresseUn album qui a énormément de personnalité, qui est imprégné dans l’air du temps.
Eugénie Lépine-Blondeau, Radio-CanadaThe young Montreal trio display a mastery of push and pull, tension and release throughout, be it via the surging crescendo of "Petite apathie", Jérôme Beaulieu’s delicate piano patterning on "Superman se pointera pas" or a cinematic cover of "Suuns’ X-Alt".
Mojo MagazineMisc is channelling the intensity of our current collective predicament into something incendiary.
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