Bleep

Canadian pianist/composer Jean-Michel Blais releases his second LP via Arts & Crafts (Moby, Broken Social Scene). Dans Ma Main is a collection of expressive contemporary classical compositions that will be up your street if you’ve kept an eye on Village Green or Erased Tapes over the past couple of years. The opening tracks here have the piano front and centre, and the best of these - ‘Roses’, ‘Outsiders’ - nod to the likes of Philip Glass and Max Richter. Dans Ma Main’s midsection sees Blais branch out and take influence from techno (‘Blinf’, ‘A Heartbeat Away’) and the cinematic industrialism of Nine Inch Nails (‘Igloo’, ‘God(s)’). We return to the keys for closer ‘Chanson’.