Existence

Existence 的中文意思是“存在”。很難去考證這個樂團成軍的年份，甚至連團員的人數都是很自由流動的。他們是一群音樂家，為響應歐洲知名女性跨界音樂家 Margot Reisinger 瑪格特·李絲爾 的號召，多年來推出過數張專輯，參與的音樂家人數超過20人，其中不乏來自亞洲、美洲、甚至是一些少數民族的優(yōu)異樂手。近年來在 Margot Reisinger 瑪格特·李絲爾 的領導下，更致力于融合世界各地的音樂類型，發(fā)掘少數民族音樂精髓，進而達到音樂無國界的終極理想。
by Geoff Orens
Existence, an ambitious progressive rock band, was formed in Quebec by Alan Charles (guitar, vocals, keyboards) who had been writing a concept album for years with his previous band. In 1991 he enlisted bassist Serge Delisle and his band in a his prog rock concept proejct. Although Charles had dreamed of a group that would be nameless and only known by the project they were working on, the rest of the new group voted down this idea, and the band took on the name of their current project, Existence. The next couple of years would see lineup shifts, but the group was able to complete the second half of the material to Charles' story. Soon Existence was performing the entire 90 minute concept in concert. In 1994 the group released the grand Fragile Whisperings of Innocence, the first half of the concept piece on record. Although the recording sessions were fraught with problems and the sound was not completely to Charles' liking, the record received a decent reception on college radio stations. The band then began a tour, but exhausted from the recording sessions, Delisle and drummer Fran?ois Labelle both left the group. The band continued on, replacing the two lost members with Bruno Tessier and Alain Quesnel. Existence broke up in 1996 with the band wanting to go in different directions. Charles was soon writing new material though and with a new band recorded the EP, Another Fine Day Of... (1998) to see what the response would be. With an outpouring of interest from radio stations, Charles then reformed Existence as a group of freelance musicians working under his and with a reformed band, recorded Existence's second album, Small People, Short Story, Little Crime (1999).