Jean-Michel Blais
Jean-Michel Blais était prêt à faire une déclaration épique. Avec mirador, son quatrième album, le pianiste et compositeur montréalais tourne son regard vers un monde merveilleux, troquant le minimalisme contemporain pour un maximalisme léger et généreux. C’est une odyssée qui passe par les chœurs, les cordes et la musique des Andes, des grottes espagnoles aux forêts estoniennes, pour revenir jusqu’au sous-sol de Nicolet, au Québec, où Blais a imaginé ses premières aventures.
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Jean-Michel Blais is a Montréal-based pianist, composer, and performer. His debut album Il was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Albums of 2016, launching an international career that has since accumulated more than 580 million streams worldwide. Known for blending virtuosity with emotional clarity, Blais creates music that moves fluidly between solo piano, orchestral writing, and electronic textures, often shaped by improvisation and deeply personal expression. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community and someone living with Tourette’s syndrome, he also draws insight from his experience as a special needs educator, bringing a rare sensitivity and humanity to his work.
Jean-Michel Blais was ready to make an epic statement. mirador, the pianist-composer's fourth album, finds the Montrealer turning his gaze onto a wondrous world—exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism. It's an odyssey that spans choirs, strings and the music of the Andes, from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and all the way back to the basement in Nicolet, Québec, where Blais first imagined adventures.
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