No Hay Discos

08/02/2024

"the music is brilliantly original and unpredictable"

New review of 'The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum' by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau feat. Sarah Albu!

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau — The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum (Bandcamp No Hay Discos NHD 003, 2023, CD / DL)

10/11/2023

"Egoyan plays a standard piano as well as an augmented one that uses physical modeling synthesis to control sampled material with the instrument’s standard interface; Pauly uses live sampling, real-time processing, and a “dekeyed chromaharp”—a repurposed autoharp—to build sonic explorations that are mesmerizing, joyfully discombobulating, and architecturally unpredictable."

We're absolutely thrilled to see Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly's album HOPEFUL MONSTER on the latest edition of Peter Margasak's Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp!

You can catch Egoyan + Pauly at The Music Gallery in Toronto on November 11 and at La Sala Rossa in Montreal on November 13 for NO HAY BANDA: Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly + Splendide abysse!

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.

21/10/2023

"The album is a project from the depths: crashing and banging, scurrying sounds of things trying to get out, and also eerie, disquieting sounds of things diving in deep."

Catch Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly in Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and finally Montreal on November 13 at NO HAY BANDA: Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly + Splendide abysse!

The pianist and the composer's collab began pre-pandemic

09/10/2023

"C’est néanmoins, pour nous tous qui aimons plonger dans un tourbillon de surprises et d’étonnement déroutant, un réel chef-d’œuvre!" / "for all of us who love to plunge into a whirlwind of surprises and bewilderment, this is a real masterpiece!"

A glowing review of Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly's new album, thank you Frédéric Cardin + PAN M 360!

Pays : Canada Label : No Hay Discos Genres et styles : avant-garde / électroacoustique / électronique / expérimental / expérimental / contemporain Année : 2023 Eve Egoyan / Mauricio Pauly – Hopeful Monster Eve Egoyan / Mauricio Pauly – Hopeful Monster · par Frédéric Cardin Hopeful Monste...

06/10/2023

It’s Bandcamp Friday, and HOPEFUL MONSTER by Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly is out now!

10 track album

05/10/2023

https://eveegoyanmauriciopauly.bandcamp.com/album/hopeful-monster

From the album Hopeful Monster: Eve Egoyan + Mauricio PaulyNo Hay Discos: NHD 004 (Montreal)Released October 6, 2023EVE EGOYAN: acoustic and augmented piano ...

27/09/2023

La première critique de Hopeful Monster de Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly est sortie, et elle est belle et détaillée!

Out October 6, preorder here: https://eveegoyanmauriciopauly.bandcamp.com/album/hopeful-monster

Je connais la pianiste canadienne Eve Egoyan depuis ses interprétations du cycle Inner Cities d'Alvin Curran et de la musique de sa compatriote Ann Southam. Je sais qu'elle n'a peur d'aucune audace, d'aucune aventure. Et en voici une belle, risquée, avec...

20/09/2023

We are absolutely thrilled to announce Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly's forthcoming release Hopeful Monster, out October 6 on CD/digital via No Hay Discos! Born from an informal improv session in 2018, the album showcases the artists' close-knit collaboration developed since then, featuring with Egoyan on acoustic & augmented piano (manipulation of a modelled piano + acoustic samples) and Pauly on live samplers, live processing, dekeyed chromaharp & drum bundle.

Pre-orders available via Bandcamp, and stay tuned for news about their release tour that includes a stop in Montreal on November 13 at NO HAY BANDA !

10 track album

11/08/2023

OUT NOW!

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau's The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum, from their installation of the same name, features six original songs composed from a series of letters written by a fictional artist to deceased Ukrainian-born, Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. Described as auto-fiction, the letters seek worldly advice and reveal Lum and Lispector's shared experience of living with chronic pain. The songs were created in close collaboration with vocalist Sarah Albu, who is featured on all tracks alongside a slew of local musicians including Émilie Fortin, Etienne Lebel, Martin D'aigle & Joao Catalao.

6 track album

07/07/2023

07/07/2023

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming release: The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau! The album releases on August 11, but there's no better day to preorder your copy than today, Bandcamp Friday!

The CD features a 16-page booklet with lyrics and stills from Lum & Desranleau’s original video work and art installation of the same name, for which they wrote and composed the soundtrack. The songs were created in close collaboration with vocalist Sarah Albu, who is featured on all tracks alongside a slew of local musicians.

6 track album

03/02/2023

Today is Bandcamp Friday, which means it's a great day to head over to Bandcamp and buy those albums you've been saving in your wishlist!

4 track album

01/02/2023

"I can’t help but admire a group that goes all in, and Montreal’s No Hay Banda, key figures in the city’s new music scene since forming in 2016, commit big time on this knockout double CD. All four pieces—works by Anthony Tan, Sabrina Schroeder, Andrea Young, and Mauricio Pauly—are all unabashedly abstract, but the music is riveting in its power and the ensemble’s devotion to slow development is dazzling."

Thank you to Peter Margasak for including 'I had a dream about this place' in his forty favourite albums of 2022! Check out the full list and make sure to subscribe to Peter's Nowhere Street newsletter!

Unranked, because what is the best?

01/02/2023

Congrats Anthony Tan on The JUNO Awards nomination!!

We're super happy to see that An Overall Augmented Sense of Well-Being by Anthony Tan has been nominated for a JUNO Award - congrats Anthony!!

The work is featured on our recent album 'I had a dream about this place', check it out here: https://nohaybandamtl.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-a-dream-about-this-place

and psst, it's Bandcamp Friday on Friday!

17/01/2023

Check out Textura's great review of NO HAY BANDA's recent album!

Many a debut album presents an ensemble as a work-in-progress and using the recording process as a catalyzing step towards forging an identity. The auspicious debut release from Montréal's No Hay Banda, on the other hand, finds the experimental chamber outfit arriving with its identity fully formed...

15/12/2022

We're absolutely thrilled to see NO HAY BANDA's album 'I had a dream about this place' featured on Peter Margasak's Best Contemporary Classical of 2022 on Bandcamp, in truly incredible company!!

Montreal friends, come celebrate at the album release party on December 19 at La Sala Rossa!

NO HAY BANDA: I had a dream about this place | ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

Embracing the big picture of musical diversity that these 10 albums have delivered all year long has provided excitement, asked questions, and explored disparate sorts of beauty.