Joel Kerr is a Montreal-based bassist, composer, arranger and bandleader.  He is involved in several creative projects, and is immersed in Montreal’s jazz, world and soul music scenes.

His most recent album, Spectral Dialogues is a collection of improvisations with double bass and modular synthesizers. Using extended techniques, the bass stretches beyond its traditional voice, murmuring, scratching, and wailing while the modular synthesizers serve as both a collaborator and a catalyst, responding to the bass and introducing layers of complexity and unpredictability. From ethereal harmonics to sonic chaos, the album traverses a vast emotional and tonal landscape.

Joel’s other current projects include The Key-Lites (soul), and Siach Hasadeh (new old Jewish music). With these groups as well as various other ensembles ranging from symphony orchestras to rock bands, Joel has toured extensively across Canada, as well as in the US and Europe.

Joel holds a Master of Music in Jazz Performance degree and a Master of Library and Information Studies degree, both from McGill University.

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