Guillaume Coutu Dumont is an electronic musician from Montreal, Canada, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Dumont comes from an artistic family with an actress mother and a twin brother who is a visual artist. He began learning Latin and classical percussion when he was seventeen. He originally went to college to study anthropology, but began to play in a funk band and discovered electroacoustic music. His college happened to be the only one in Quebec that offered electroacoustic composition courses. However, instead of finishing school, he began working with Julien Roy on the Egg project. This same Julien Roy introduced Coutou Dumont to electronic music by inviting him to a techno party. The experience, he says, made him get over his prejudice against machine generated music. Dumont went to Africa in 2001, as percussionist with a jazz band called [iks], recording two albums and toured in Senegal. The group spent three months in a small village called Linguère in the desert, living with a family of percussionists. The idea was to work with these native musicians to bring them to Canada and record. However, there were cultural and legal problems. He is one of the premiered performers at the MUTEK Festival in Montreal. He is so interesting because of the wide range of genres he performs in. I will start with an almost psychedelic hip hop track and move into some jazzy house below.youtu.be/DDQ49H8XLk4
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:15:03 +0000
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