Few musicians embody the spirit of Québec’s musical radicalism better than Guy “Yug” Touin (b. 1940). During the 1960s, he was a vital part of the province’s countercultural awakening, co-founding Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec in 1967 and serving as the first drummer for Walter Boudreau‘s iconoclastic L’Infonie starting from their 1969 debut. He also worked alongside influential musician Robert Charlebois at the peak of the singer’s wayward curiosity, notably playing as part of his  At Olympia appearance in Paris and featuring in the infamous l’Osstidcho cabarets. His practice gleefully reached across boundaries, embracing pop culture, the psychedelic underground, free jazz, poetry, fine arts, and new-age spirituality at a time when these worlds rarely intersected.