Yannick Anctil

Will Regnier: Traces

by Dan McClenaghan
February 10, 2024

Montreal-based drummer & composer Will Regnier's recording debut, Traces, paints an atmospheric soundscape. It could be a score for a science fiction Western movie, the accompaniment for scenes of a rider under an alien lavender sky, his mount a sturdy quadruped species, neither equine nor bovine, but something different. Low vegetation rises in prickly clumps in an array of otherworldly colors. Miles Davis' In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969)--an album which has always sounded like something which sailed in from ...