A rare sonic territory: the architecture of neo-classical music meets the pulse of ambient techno, dense electronic textures converge with basslines rooted in jazz-funk.
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"At 18, after nine academic years in music — concerts and studios — I needed to see something else. I studied philosophy.
I worked in restaurants, warehouses; as a cook, a carpenter, a bicycle courier through the streets of Montreal. Twenty trades, twenty different ways to redefine myself and feed my creativity.
Music never disappeared — it was waiting. And gradually, it found its way back. Not as an obligation or a step backward, but as something you always end up returning to.
Phil Klab came from that: someone who comes back with something to say."
Phil Klab
Philippe Labonté (Phil Klab) is an electronic composer and performer based in Montreal. Trained in classical piano from childhood, he developed a parallel practice in jazz improvisation and electronic compositions over more than twenty years. After a long break from performing, he returned to composition in 2024 under the name Phil Klab, with a firm grounding in live electronics.
In 2025, he took over Montreal metro stations and parks with a synth and a loopstation — 90-minute improvisation sets built in real time in front of strangers. That same year, he launched The Dopamine Synth, a video series on sound design published on YouTube and social media.
Thunder & Silk, his current album, is a work in progress — a streaming release to follow.
Somewhere in the process, classical training and electronic instinct fight for territory. Rarely in peace. That tension is often where the piece finds its shape.
Listen to live performances