 JOHN MELLENCAMP
No Better Than This
www.mellencamp.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
Produced by T Bone Burnett featuring 13 new original songs! Recorded with just one microphone and a vintage Ampex tape recorder at three historic locations!
In an age of auto-tuned, computerized recordings, John Mellencamp’s approach on his Rounder debut, No Better Than This, is refreshing. The entire album was recorded with Mellencamp and his band playing live in one room using a 55 year-old Ampex tape recorder and just one vintage microphone.
Legendary producer T Bone Burnett captured the stunning thirteen new Mellencamp originals at three historically important locations: Sun Studio in Memphis, TN (where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all first recorded); the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, GA (the oldest Black church in North America, dating to 1775); and in Room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, TX (where Robert Johnson made his first recordings in 1936). The songs on No Better Than This reflect classic American musical traditions including blues, folk, gospel, rockabilly, and country, while addressing such themes as the need for hope, the nature of relationships, and narratives that recount extraordinary occurrences in everyday life. Mellencamp says of the album, “It was absolutely the most fun I’ve ever had making a record in my life. It was about making music – organic music made by real musicians – that’s heartfelt and written from the best place it can come from.”
 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
SOUNDTRACK
www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) includes a number of original songs composed by alternative/modern rock kingpin Beck. They are performed in the film by Sex Bob-Omb - the group featuring Scott Pilgrim (Cera) on bass, Stephen Stills (Mark Webber) on lead vocals and guitar and Kim Pine (Alison Pill) on drums. Cast members perform the band’s vocals, with multi-platinum and Grammy® Award winner Beck providing instrumentation - a unique collaboration unprecedented in the annals of soundtrack albums. Beck’s Sex Bob-Omb songs, including the grunge-infused “Garbage Truck” and the alternative-themed “Summertime,” are woven seamlessly into the film. Both the film and album feature four Beck/Sex Bob-Omb tracks, as well as “Ramona,” a Beck (only) song featured here in both acoustic and lush orchestral arrangements.
 TOM JONES
Praise and Blame
www.tomjones.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
Jones has collaborated with producer Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Rufus Wainwright, Laura Marling) to release a captivating collection of songs drawn from the American spiritual, blues and contemporary repertoire. Praise & Blame is a stripped‐down, gritty, soul‐bearing album from an artist with a successful, multi‐genre recording career that spans five decades. Jones celebrated his 70th birthday on June 7 this year. One would never guess that he has reached such a milestone when hearing the power, restraint and clarity he presents in his renditions of songs by Susan Werner, Bob Dylan and John Lee Hooker. Traditional repertoire from the works of The Staple Singers, Mahalia Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe are also given unique, fervent interpretations by a world‐renowned voice that is at the top of its game.TRACKLISTING:
Parc de L'Imaginaire presents :
Desjardins Jazz Festival
From July 21 to 24, every evening at 7:30 p.m.
Outdoors shows, canceled in case of rain
View our entire program at : http://www.limagier.qc.ca/english/parc/program2010.htm
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July 21
Karen Young and Éric Auclair
Where jazz meets with electronic music, the musical collaboration of Karen Young and Éric Auclair represents the coming together of two generations who bring Beatnik poetry to the 21st century.
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July 22
Philippe Bélanger and the Vanessa Jazz Trio
We are delighted that our honorary patron for the 2010 edition of Parc de L'imaginaire ,Philippe Bélanger will be performing alongside the members of the Vanessa Rodrigues Jazz Trio. The show promises to be a lively and upbeat one, with offerings ranging from Miles Davis to a jazzed-up version of Bach. The Hammond B3 organ duo of Bélanger and Rodrigues, accompanied by guitar, drums and trumpet, delivers a crowd-pleasing, high-calibre performance.
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July 23
Le Delphinus Jazz
Delphinus Jazz is an ensemble comprised of four experienced National Capital Region musicians. Taking their inspiration from the great Miles, they perform original pieces that reveal a rich and contemporary musical universe.
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July 24
Les Boppers
Les Boppers are a very active group of six musicians on the Quebec music scene. They have prepared a Be-bop influenced performance for all audiences.
We thank our sponsors:
The ministère de la Culture, de la Communication et de la Condition féminine
L’Imagier - Centre d’exposition, 9, rue Front, Gatineau (secteur Aylmer), QC
 SHERYL CROW
100 Miles From Memphis
ww.sherylcrow.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
To date, Sheryl Crow has sold over 1 million albums in Canada! 100 Miles from Memphis, her seventh studio album, was written and produced by Crow, Doyle Bramhall II and Justin Stanley and features the musicians Tommy Sims and Chris Bruce. On this album she ditches her country and pop-rock past in favor of a vintage Memphis-styled, soul-inspired record. Although an extraordinaire on such instruments as bass, piano and acoustic guitar, Crow concentrates on singing throughout the album, which features several covers, including Citizen Cope's "Sideways", Terence Trent Darby’s “Sign Your Name” featuring Justin Timberlake and The Jackson 5’s first ever #1 single, “I Want You Back”.TRACKLISTING:
 THE BOUNTY HUNTER
DIRECTOR: ANDY TENNANT
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston
Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). He thinks all that’s ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other – until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough – staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher. Andy Tennant (HITCH) directs.
GENRE: COMEDY
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 110 MINS
RATED: PG-13
 KORN
Korn III: Remember Who You Are
www.modlife.com/korn
Dist: Warner Music Canada
Korn III: Remember Who You Are is the band's ninth album overall and it was produced by Ross Robinson, who also manned the boards for the band's explosively definitive self-titled 1994 debut, as well as the follow up, 1996's Life is Peachy. Over the course of eight releases, Korn have sold over 30 million albums worldwide, inspiring a disciple-like devotion among their fanbase along the way. Korn also notched six Grammy nominations and have won two; one for Best Short Form Music Video for "Freak on a Leash" from 1998's Follow the Leader, as well as one for Best Metal Performance for "Here to Stay" from 2002's Untouchables. They have also been nominated for nine MTV VMAs, having picked up two wins for "Best Rock Video" and "Best Editing" for "Freak on a Leash." Korn also launched their own massively successful touring festival, "The Family Values Tour."TRACKLISTING:
 IVANA SANTILI
Santili
www.ivanasantilli.net
Dist: Fontana North
 Ivana Santilli is back with a fresh new sound. Ivana continues her musical journey exploring her crush on dance floor rhythms & grooves. The new album, simply entitled Santilli is the same Ivana Santilli we know and love, reinvented. Santilli is a result of her experiences living in Toronto, London, England and New York. “The stories and energy of New York are what put new guts into my songs and what kick-started me writing again. This album is a new start.” Several of the songs on the new album including “Your Girl Tonight”, were co-written with Top 10 radio hit maker Belly and producer Da Heala.
 EMINEM
Recovery
www.eminem.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, Eminem has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others. Eminem releases Recovery just over a year after his last album, 2009’s Relapse. Relapse put the cap on an impressive ten years of recorded output, and contributed to Eminem being the biggest selling artist of 2000-2009.TRACKLISTING:
Michel-Luc Bellemare's showing at the Snapdragon Gallery is a vibrant display of bright, deep colours and thickly textured oil paint, from the palm-sized, circular, orangey-pink "Cupcake" to the large, tri-coloured triptych "Do-Re-Mi." Bellemare's technique can indeed sometimes look like icing applied a pastry, particularly when he works in those pale, pinkish hues, but darker works such as "Burnt Autumn" also show an earthier sensibility.
A visit to the gallery, on the corner of Bank Street and Third Avenue in the Glebe, will be time well spent, even if you are not in the market for art. The space is clean and bright and open, showing the works to good advantage, and the welcome, from gallery owner Richard, is congenial. It will be an oasis of calm and relaxed contemplation of art on a hot, buzzing summer day.
Okay, are you ready for it? Pixar's big movie of the summer is here, so you can assume that it's pretty much the only game in town. Toy Story 3 is no doubt as charming, funny, and moving as every Pixar movie in creation, so the fact that you are sitting here reading this suggests some deficiency on your part.
Alternatively we have Jonah Hex, yet another in a long line of less-than-known comic book adaptations that are really starting to confuse viewers with their very existence, and . . . that's pretty much it for wide releases.
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