Raymond Roussel
No One Asked Us Yet
Out: August 21st, 2026 on Halocline Trance (CD/DL)
Genres: Jazz/ Improvised Music
ELDRITCH PRIEST — strangemonk.com
RAYMOND ROUSSEL — raymondroussel.net
HALOCLINE TRANCE — haloclinetrance.com | haloclinetrance.bandcamp.com
There are two new titles from Vancouver-based composer, musician, and writer Eldritch Priest on the Toronto imprint and music company Halocline Trance, a label that has been crucial in nurturing Priest’s musical profile as it has expanded, issuing his physical-format debut Omphaloskepsis (2022) and later Dormitive Virtue in 2024. The debut of his trio Raymond Roussel moves away from the peculiar chamber music of Too, So Like Nothing and toward his roots in jazz guitar (and thus his 2024 solo guitar album Dormitive Virtue). Yet, as the band’s name suggests, their take on jazz is not quite straightforward either. Each player in the group employs processing quite dramatically, offering ample scope for abstraction, a decision which is mirrored by their interweaving of improvisation with Priest-penned originals and odd renditions of covers (“standards” may not be quite apt here.) Priest is joined by bassist James Meger and drummer/ electronics wielder Brady Cranfield—two prominent members of Vancouver’s music and art scene—and their work together gestures toward everything from Warp-label electronica to the fabled ECM sound, and from gnarly free jazz to, on occasion, shoegaze-ish atmospherics.
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List — Upcoming Releases, A Closer Listen
List — Upcoming Canadian Releases, Cups N’ Cakes
List — Nye Releaser (21/8-26), ReleaseFredag!
List — Darryl Sterdan, Next Week in Music August 17-23 • The Long List: 430+ Releases On The Way, Tinnitist
List — Nouveautés electro, dance de août 2026, Musicme
List — Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of New & Upcoming Canadian Albums In 2026, Billboard Canada
List —Music Tracking 2026: Jazz, Tom Hull
Pick — The Moderns Selects (August 22, 2026)
Pick — Tapefear
Pick — Jukebox Radio Panik, Août 2026, Radio Panik
Pick — Jazz, Bandcamp Explorer
News — Eldritch Priest Prepares Two New Releases for Halocline Trance, Avant Music News
News — Eksperiment
News — SCA | Quick News | August 10, 2026, Simon Fraser University
Info — Nouveautés Editeurs, BNF
Review — Xenia Benivolski, The Wire
Review — Frédéric Cardin, Pan M 360
Review — Norbert Mendel, er-em online
Review — Cinico Bertallot, DoppioJazz
Review — Reed Jackson, Spectrum Culture
Review — Russell Trunk, Exclusive Magazine
Review/ Round-up — Jeremy Shatan, A Song For Friday: Frances Chang, AnEarful
Review/ Round-up — Dominic Valvona, Perusal #82: Becca Bartlett, Hui, Spaer, Free From Society…, Monolith Cocktail
Review/ Round-up — Frank P. Eckert, Motherboard: September 2026, Groove
Round-up — Michael Donaldson, When an Obsession Gets Out of Hand, The ToneArm
Podcast — World Of Jazz 804
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 30, CFRU (October 6, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz, CFRU (October 6, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz, CFUV (September 29, 2026)
Radio/ Charts — Top 10 Jazz (#1), CJSW (September 15, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 30, CJSW (September 15, 2026)
Radio/ Charts — Top 10 Jazz (#1), CJSW (September 10, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Earshot! Top 10 Jazz (September 8, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 30 (#6), CJSW (September 8, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 30, CITR (September 1, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 30, CJSW (#6) (September 1, 2026)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Jazz (#1), CJSW (September 1, 2026)
Radio — The Deepest Blue, KVMRx (October 15, 2026)
Radio — L’Heure de pointe, Radio Panik (October 14, 2026)
Radio — A Different Nature, KBOO (October 12, 2026)
Radio — (((tone.bender))), Met Radio & HORADS FM (October 11, 2026)
Radio —Deepest Blue, KVMRx (October 11, 2026)
Radio —Deepest Blue, KVMRx (October 8, 2026)
Radio — The Morning Fog, WVUD (October 4, 2026)
Radio — (((tone.bender))), Met Radio & HORADS FM (October 4, 2026)
Radio — SECOND WIND, KUAA (October 1, 2026)
Radio — Toward The Creative Nothing, CKXU (September 29, 2026)
Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (September 24, 2026)
Radio — Co w jazzie piszczy, JazzKultura (September 23, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (September 23, 2026)
Radio — Subcultural Wallpaper, Freeform Portland (September 16, 2026)
Radio — Expansive Prairie Skies, UMFM (September 16, 2026)
Radio — Toward The Creative Nothing, CKXU (September 15, 2026)
Radio — French Transe en Danse, CJSW (September 14, 2026)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (September 10, 2026)
Radio — Expansive Prairie Skies, UMFM (September 2, 2026)
Radio — Liminal Scores, CJSW (September 2, 2026)
Radio — Amygdala Oscillations, CJSW (September 2, 2026)
Radio — Ear Of The Behearer, PBS (September 1, 2026)
Radio — Classical Connection, CFCR (September 1, 2026)
Radio — On The Corner, XRay FM (September 1, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (September 1, 2026)
Radio — Daniel Blumin, WFMU (August 31, 2026)
Radio — Breaking The Tethers, CJSW (August 31, 2026)
Radio — Motte and Bailey, CJSW (August 29, 2026)
Radio — L’Heure de Pointe, Radio Panik (August 28, 2026)
Radio — Jazz Tracks, KSQD (August 27, 2026)
Radio — Alternative To What?, CJSW (August 27, 2026)
Radio — Electric Sense, CIUT (August 27, 2026)
Radio — The Jazz Disturbance (August 27, 2026)
Radio — On The Corner, XRay FM (August 25, 2026)
Radio — Jazzmanía, Radio Universidad 89.5 FM (August 24, 2026)
Radio — All This Jass, KSPC (August 22, 2026)
Radio — Bepi Crespan Presents, CITR (August 21, 2026)
Radio — Down By The Cuyahoga, WRUW (August 21, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (August 18, 2026)
Radio — Toward The Creative Nothing, CKXU (August 18, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (August 11, 2026)
Radio — Other Aspects, WAYO (August 9, 2026)
Radio — Journey Into Mystery with DJ Stealth, KMNO (July 30, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (July 21, 2026)
Radio — Transcendent Phase, KWVA (July 14, 2026)
