Première parution/first release : novembre 1994
Livret/booklet de/of 30 pages

Revue de presse

"[...] Michel Ratté, is an intellectual, analytical composer and marvellously subtle drummer, with an individual, light touch that seems to hover just above the kit, providing thought balloons of propulsion. He’s even more valuable as a composer. He' s seeking ways to expose the formal connections in the improvisational structures he employs. In his impressive acoustic trio the tenacious attention to atonal detail, dynamics and pointillist polyphony offers a casual, calm, human perspective on otherwise austere materials. When his approach plugs into electric sources, the metallic, multi- synth timbres, curiously appropriated samples and odd quotational material raise issues of recognition and cultural resonance in a now-comforting, now-hostile environment. Considering the breath of intellect and imagination, Ratté's future promises fascinating developments."
Art lange, The Wire (Londres), mars 1995

"There are two extreme positions here. Those embracing players who play just like Coltrane and those who play like John Zorn. The middle ground is difficult to find". This view made the 31-years- old drummer the underdog of Montreal's new-music scene. "The tendancy is to view musical material in quotation marks" [...] jazz improviser Ratté makes music from scratch. [...] Ratté's unique touch on the drums, first heard by many in Jean Beaudet's acclaimed quartet, combines the sensitivity and pristine focus of Morton Feldman with the hard-bop furnace of Art Blakey, and could make a paper on quantum mechanics swing. Ratté's new trio Wreck's Progress provides his radical concepts on improvisation with the musical goods needed to back him up. [...] the on-the-spot interplay beetween the trio members is fertile and stunning, recalling the bold tumult of free jazz, yet eschewing that genre's traditional vacillation beetween chaos and climax.”
Andrew Jones, The Gazette, (Montréal), 4 février 1995