Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts--Guillaume Coutu Dumont live for Electronic Beats Radio, 2009-04

Driven by his passion for hybrid forms of musical expression, new Berliner Guillaume continues on his quest for the ultimate funk recipe with his solo project: Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts, a special blend of funk, house, techno, gospel, swing and afrobeat. His first album "Face A L'Est" was released on Musique Risquée. So far, his solo outputs are available on Mutek_rec, Musique Risquée, Hartchef Discos, Floppy Funk, OSLO, Raum Musik, Circus Company and Karat. Guillaume's first musical foray was as a percussionist in a funk band, after which he studied Latin and classical percussion in college before discovering electro-acoustic composition, which he pursued further at university. It was during this period that he joined [iks], a contemporary jazz formation with whom he recorded two albums and toured for several months in Senegal. Upon his return to Montreal, Guillaume decided to focus his efforts on composition.Influenced as much by concrete music as by techno, which he discovered one night in the midst of a lightning storm, Guillaume founded Egg (Mutek_rec, Karat, Floppy Funk), Luci (Mutek_Rec, Morris Audio), Chic Miniature (Raummusik, Musique Risquée), Flabbergast (Mutek_Rec), The Per Eckbo Orchestra (Oslo) as well as the artistic collective Racam. He has toured with one or another of these projects in North and South America, Europe and Asia. If you follow the output of all the artistic collaborations Guillaume is running, you will find him as one of the most productive and influential artists of today’s electronic music scene – and maybe beyond.