14 years ago, on January 30, 1990, empreintes DIGITALes launched its very first CD. To celebrate this 14th anniversary, we are making a special offer to all our Internet customers: a 14% rebate for 14 days from Monday, January 19 to Monday, February 2, 2004 on all empreintes DIGITALes titles!

In Montréal on January 20, 2004, Éditions Artextes launched S:on, Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art, an anthology compiled by Nicole Gingras. Amongst the artists represented on this publication we find Pierre-André Arcand, Georges Azzaria, Steve Heimbecker, Hugh Le Caine, Christof Migone, Hélène Prévost, Jocelyn Robert, R Murray Schafer, Michael Snow, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, and Hildegard Westerkamp.

Two Squirrelgirl releases are now available on electrocd.com: … And Rabbits Named Friday the debut full-length by Montréal’s own [sic], aka Jen Morris, and The Romance Is Over by The Sleazy Listeners, the result of a back and forth collaboration between Toronto and Trondheim.

Please note that our offices will close from December 22 to 28, 2003. All online orders will be processed and confirmed on Monday December 29. Everyone at actuellecd.com & electrocd.com wish you a merry and peaceful holidays season!

The original soundtrack recording from Patrick Bokanowski’s movie L’Ange (“The Angel”) is now available on CD. Composed almost 30 years ago by Michèle Bokanowski, the music links together American minimalism, classic contrapuntal writing, and “musique concrète” while keeping a curious feeling of “archaic pre-sampler.”

An excerpt of the work Beneath The Forest Floor by Hildegard Westerkamp is included in the soundtrack of the film Elephant, by American filmmaker Gus Van Sant, winner of both the Palme d’Or and Best Director prizes of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. The music from and inspired by the motion picture is now available on French label MK2.