Pierre-Yves Martel

Pierre-Yves Martel
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November 6 2026
Violet Thalamus imagine si ceci

Pleased to announce the release of “imagine si ceci” by Violet Thalamus. This new band features bass clarinet and saxophone player Philippe Lauzier (with whom I’ve been playing for over 20 years and who is featured on all three Weird Studies records), drummer Michel F. Côté (a pillar of the Québec musique actuelle scene for the past four decades and a member of Klaxon Gueule, among countless other projects), and myself on modular synthesizer. An adventurous blend of improvised music, experimental jazz and electronic textures, the album moves through a sonic landscape that is both unpredictable and otherworldly.

Violet Thalamus has existed since the very beginning. Its aesthetic inherits the pulsations, frequencies, and timbres that forge and traverse this Earth. Its music lies at the precise junction of the sensor-paths along which the individuals who form this triad make their way. Its compositions exist at different levels of organization, stagnant or turbulent, in guises that are most often unrecognizable: ever finer, more subtle, and also more fragile, more random, more deceptive and venturesome. We sense that they hold, at their impassive and enduring center, the totality of possible transformations of matter, excluding nothing, not even the joys, the impurities, the beauties.

Listen to or order the album on Bandcamp, or stream it wherever you listen to music. Thanks for supporting independent music.

September 1 2026
SEPTEMBER CD SALE

For the month of September, all CDs currently available on my Bandcamp are 50% off. Some of these are almost out of print, so now’s the time to pick them up, as I most likely won’t be making more.

Visit my merch page on Bandcamp to browse through the collection. The discount codes are listed on the individual album pages.

Weird Studies Vol. 3

I’m pleased to announce that Weird Studies Vol. 3 is now out in the world. You can visit Bandcamp to read the liner notes by JF Martel and Phil Ford, purchase the digital download or LP, or stream the album wherever you listen to music.

Thanks, as always, for supporting the music.

Bandcamp Summer Sale
June 15-30

Until June 30, get 15% off everything with the code weirdsummer26 at checkout. Click here.