[image-4]Published January 24, 2008.
Torngat
You Could Be
(Alien8 Recordings)
Fans of Belle Orchestre, Hylozoists and Final Fantasy take note. Montreal-based Torngat—Pietro Amato, Mathieu Charbonneau and Julien Poissant—makes orchestral, chamber-pop instrumental music. With three pairs of hands, they form imaginative, instrumental soundscapes. The title track has a beautifully melancholic mood—an emotional underpinning to the whole album. But that doesn’t mean You Could Be brings you down. Intertwined with that contemplative strand is a rock-like sensibility. Rhythms drive hard. Noise, distortion, dissonance and feedback are here. They played this past year’s Atlantic Jazz Festival—hopefully they return soon.
Sean Flinn
This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2008.