RAÔUL DUGUAY -PAGE 2.

I feel  have to give more attention again to Rauoul Duguay. A very interesting Canadian genius writer who also made music (and artwork). He's not so looked after by collectors but I think he's worth investigating. He has a wide ranged voice. His early records were song based with progressive & folk elements,with wide attention to musical qualities, in a somewhat "normal" (so not weird or inaccessible) but very individual expressive, original way which gives it a weird touch. Especially the first 2 records I like a LOT. There's something of the genius there in every detail, no matter it is NOT avant garde at all. The third is a bit weaker at the last few tracks, but still is very good.

His had a dada side project which is much more weird, with a Beefheart like energy in originality, called Infonie. I heard two later works which were musically not so interesting. One was a cooperation with a too new agy synthesizer composer. Another project was avant garde contemporary classical music, not really very accessible.

Who is Raôul Duguay ?

You can choose know the man from different angles. I have a large biography on the next page. Duguay is first of all a writer. At the moment he's busy at another book from 333 3/3 pages. The tee records from the 70's were my entry.

You can either look at his biography first or discover the links.

Other short biography in French : http://www.cyberus.ca/~madam/pwebd.htm#Duguay

I am happy I could trace the man through the net. His own short resume after the question for it of what he did in his own words :

"I wrote 15 books (mostly poetry), recorded 15 albums, realized a film and played in 10, created 8 pieces of theatre...and have given 3 333 shows..."

Some links to Raôul Duguay (related) web pages  :

A website at http://pierregravel.com/PageCategorie/Auteurs/RaouDuguay/raoul_duguay.htm

& (with text fragments from some of his songs) http://site.ifrance.com/leparolier/quebecois/classartistes/r/raoulduguay.htm

A small review in French at http://www.canoe.qc.ca/TempoLivresBios_qc/D2670R2.html

One of the songtexts from that album ("Bitt à Tibi")you can read at :

http://www.multimania.com/independance/chansons/duguay_bittatibi.html as well as at : http://comnet.ca/~rg/ch_d012.htm           

Another song-text ("Le Lys")you can read at : http://www.multimania.com/independance/chansons/duguay_lys.html  

Poem : http://www.poetescontrelaguerre.com/RaoulDuguay.html

Label listing of the albums at http://www.capitol6000.com/70000LPs.htm

Beautiful drawings in his book "l'amour" (1975) used to be at http://www2.biblinat.gouv.qc.ca/artiste/htm/setA069.htm

And "l'île" (1983) used to be at http://www2.biblinat.gouv.qc.ca/artiste/htm/setA203.htm

Bibliographie et discographie à http://le-village.ifrance.com/leparolier/quebecois/classartistes/r/raoulduguay.htm

& http://esm.ac.ca/RaoulDuguay-discographie.htm

Some reviews from movies where Duguay participated you can find at : http://www.nfb.ca/FMT/F/inte/D/Duguay_Raoul.html

A review of Atlandide I made you can find here

Raôul Duguay now has his own webpage : http://raoulduguay.net

Do you know more links, do you have other early albums ? Please E-mail me 

A review about Duguay's professions, a short review about the meaning of "l'infonie ", an official discography and bibliography

you can find at the next page (a review of the recording of one of the recordings of l'infonie you'll find at a seperate page).

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links updated 2002-06-26 ; new links added 2006-12-11