The Future Sound of Yesterday's Montreal

Sometimes all it takes is a book or record to completely stimulate one's imagination. Lately, in my case, it's the later. I was listening to the CBC Radio 3 Podcast and heard the track "Terminus" by Quebec Connection.

Ok, so I have to confess: I have a extremely hard-up fetish for the retro-modern. I think it's having grown up in Hamilton with all the brutal buildings and their modular furniture I was somehow conditioned towards it. I think that in my heart of hearts despite all the modern backwards moving trends, be it organic gardening or neo-conservatism, I feel that we can still move forward at a breakneck 20th century pace. Manned bases on the moon, mars... pluto! Cures for every possible disease.

But that's really idealism I suppose, maybe even fantasy. To believe that we all will have equal human rights or that peak oil will not be the key determining factor in our movement towards cleaner alternative forms of energy.

Yowsers, all this dancing about architecture. I guess is that music to me is about ideas, settings and feelings. It is to everyone really. And I suppose right now I want some optimism. I'm sure we could all use some.

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Bonjour Expo

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