Ensemble Infini
Volume ∞

Out: May 1, 2026 (CD/DL) August 7th (2xLP) on Cellar Music
Genres: Free Jazz, Psychedelic, Experimental
Ensemble Infini — instagram.com/ensembleinfini | ensembleinfini.bandcamp.com
CELLAR MUSIC GROUP — cellarlive.com  |  cellarlive.bandcamp.com

Montréal-based drummer, composer, and iconoclast Guy Thouin (b. 1940) stands as a towering presence in Québec’s countercultural history. A driving force behind seminal groups like Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec and L’Infonie, he has also collaborated with artists ranging from Robert Charlebois to Sonny Greenwich and Steve Roach. Now approaching 86, Thouin continues to radiate the same vitality that fueled his earliest work, embracing new cross-generational collaborations such as this one.

Ensemble Infini is Thouin’s ever-evolving workshop collective rooted in his expansive vision of free jazz. The group primarily performs bespoke arrangements of his compositions, drawing from every phase of his long career. Their debut release, out on Cellar Music May 1, 2026, on CD and digital, with a 2xLP edition arriving August 7, brings together driving improvisation, molten psychedelia, and abstract atmospherics—a combination they’ve already demonstrated in acclaimed live performances such as their 2023 appearance at FIMAV. Here, their exploratory spirit carries into the studio, where the ensemble incorporates overdubs, electronic treatments, synthesizers, and collage-like approaches drawing in part from their archive of live and residency recordings, all while retaining the immediacy and vitality of their performances.

COVERAGE:
List — Upcoming Canadian Releases, Cups N Cakes
List — Upcoming Releases, Tinnitist
List — Nouveautés musicales du 1er mai 2026, Caisse de son
List — Nye Releaser (1/5-26), Releasefredag
List — New Releases, The Rhythm of Study
List/ News — Darryl Sterdan, Next Week in Music | April 27 – May 3 • The Long List: 500+ Releases On The Way, Tinnitist
News/ List — Maggio 2026: Le Uscite Discografiche, Jazz In Family
News/Preview — G-Point Audio
News — Okay Friday
News/ Preview — Matteo Damiani, Guy Thouin and Ensemble Infini’s debut album arrives on Cellar Music in May 2026, Retrofuturista
Info — All Music Guide
Info — Museum of Canadian Music
Round-up — Michael Donaldson, Invented Phonetics + Theatrical Instincts, The Tonearm
Article — Jean-Christophe Laurence, Guy Thouin ou l’infiniment libre, La Presse
Review — Philippe Renaud, Le Devoir
Review/ Column — Daniel Spicer, Jazz/Improv, The Wire
Review — Russell A. Trunk, Exclusive Magazine
Review/ Round-up — Jeremy Shatan, A Song For Friday: Maisy Owen, AnEarful
Round-up — A CLOSER LISTEN WEEKLY #108.5, A Closer Listen
Podcast — One Man’s Jazz, #1457
Podcast — World of Jazz #790
Radio/ Chart —The National Jazz Chart, !earshot (May 19, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz, CKUT (May 19, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz, CKUT (May 12, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz, CKUT (May 5, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz, CKUT (April 28, 2026)
Radio — Hardly Strictly Americana, KCSB (May 17, 2026)
Radio — Rabble Without A Cause, CKCU (May 13, 2026)
Radio — In The Margin of The Other, WMBR (May 13, 2026)
Radio — Hardly Strictly Americana, KCSB (May 10, 2026)
Radio — 80lb. Cardstock 395, X-Ray FM (May 10, 2026)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (May 14, 2026)
Radio — Jazzmanía, Radio Universidad UAQ 89.5 (May 6, 2026)
Radio — Jazzmanía, Radio Universidad UAQ 89.5 (May 5, 2026)
Radio — Jazzmanía, Radio Universidad UAQ 89.5 (May 4, 2026)
Radio — Jazz Amuck, CKUT (May 1, 2026)
Radio — Disco 3000, Parkdale Pirate Radio/ WGXC (April 30, 2026)
Radio — Feast On This, KOWS (April 29, 2026)
Radio — Serious Moonlight Sonatas with Carol, WFMU (April 26, 2026)
Radio — All This Jass, KSPC (April 25, 2026)
Radio — Radio Lost and Found, KBOO (April 23, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (April 21, 2026)
Radio — Everything All At Once Forever, The Spy FM (April 18, 2026)
Radio — Jazz Amuck, CKUT (April 17, 2026)
Radio — Jazz Bazar, CKIA (April 14, 2026)
Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (April 16, 2026)
Radio — No Pigeonholes EXP, KOWS (April 16, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (April 14, 2026)
Radio — All This Jass, KSPC (April 11, 2026)
Radio — Electric Sense, CIUT (April 8, 2026)
Radio — Daniel Blumin, WFMU (April 6, 2026)
Radio — Radio State, UMFM (April 6, 2026)
Radio — Cooler Classics, Feel Good Station/ Countywide Radio (April 5, 2026)
Radio — All This Jass, KSPC (April 4, 2026)
Radio — Motte and Bailey, CJSW (April 4, 2026)