[CP 295 CD] CAPAC "Musical Portrait" Selects • Series 4 & 5

May 2024; The third disc ([CP 295-3 CD]) is out now, featuring the CAPAC singles by Alain Thibault (WRC5-4257; Series 5 No. 18 - featuring L'Infonie leader Walter Boudreau across the piece "E.L.V.I.S. (Electro-Lux Vertige Illimité Synthétique)"), André-Luc Desjardins (WRC5-4261; Series 5 No. 10), Sérgio Barroso (WRC5-4268; Series 5 No. 16), & Paul Dolden (WRC5-4272; Series 5 No. 13).

March 2024; The second disc (aka [CP 295-2 CD]) is now available, covering the CAPAC singles of Electro-Acoustic work by composers Michel Gonneville (WRC5-3013; Series 4 No. 14), alcides lanza (WRC5-3017; Series 4 No. 18), Dennis Patrick (WRC5-3019; Series 4 No. 20), & Guy Perron (WRC5-4256; Series 5 No. 3) as selected by the "C.P. Cabal" after an intense few months of back-and-forth negotiating & gerrymandering! Very happy with the selection here, which brings the aesthetic kicking & screaming into the 80s with a bold selection of Tape Collage & Concrète pieces, screaming Digital Synthesis, and more!

November 2023; Inaugurating a long-in-the-works, curated rundown of the storied CAPAC "Musical Portrait" singles issued throughout the late 70s & early 80s by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada, Limited, here is the first ([CP 295-1 CD]) of several discs covering those of Serge Arcuri (WRC5-3000; Series 4 No. 1), Richard G. Boucher (WRC5-3003; Series 4 No. 4), Yves Daoust (WRC5-3005; Series 4 No.6) & Marcelle Deschênes (WRC5-3007; Series 4 No. 8) presented in the now-familiar six-panel "Glossy" spec (with the art & libretto from each highly-purple "Gatefold" single presented in gory detail across 4 panels & the labels the remaining 2).

You've seen these pop up here & there on the apropos Composers' titles, usually as bonus material (check [CP 039-076] for the Rudolf Komorous, [CP 049 CD] for the Bernard Bonnier & Giselle Ricard ones, [CP 143 CD] for the Ted Dawson, [CP 219 CD] for the Philippe Ménard, [CP 285 CD] for the David Keane, etc.) but these will cover the standalone singles; often the only issued material by a series of brilliant, insular composers working within & expressly outside of the Canadian Electro-Acoustic systems. Personally I *love* the format & focus, offering bite-sized nuggets of on the most complex & rewarding sections of each Composers' work, often as they were still in-progress.