Utwory na płycie:

• Eden
• Inspecteur Barracuda
• Partir
• Le Mat
• La lettre
• Je me souviens
• La vanité de Dédale
• La chute dIcare
• Bestiaire
• Ménage à trois
• Blanche
• La comptine de la terreur
• Silence
• Fiat lux
• La vie
• Expatriado

Eden
Inspecteur Barracuda
Partir
Le Mat
La lettre
Je me souviens
La vanité de Dédale
La chute d'Icare
Bestiaire
Ménage a trois
Blanche
La comptine de la terreur
Silence
Fiat lux
La vie
Expatriado

Sébastien Ricard plays the idealistic poet in La Bibliotheque-Interdite (The Forbidden Library), an intimate tango-opera written and composed by Denis Plante. The libretto expands on the memories of a fictional poet who, like his celebrated contemporaries Astor Piazzolla and Jorge Luis Borges, would have been a kind of outsider. He arrived in Buenos Aires in 1940, and with a mix of curiosity and amazement, there discovered the tango.

La Bibliotheque-Interdite is an original work in which recitatives and songs blend to create the poignant and pungent mood of magic realism so dear to Argentine culture. The work pays homage to writers and poets such as Borges, Discepolo, and Arlt who, along with many others, spoke out against the rise of fascism.

In the Tango Boréal ensemble, which provides the musical framework of the opera, Denis Plante’s moving bandonéon and David Jacques’ passionate guitar and charango are fuelled by the earthy rhythms of Ian Simpson’s double bass.

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Recorded at Studio Guytare Bergeron, Québec, October 10-11 and 14, 2016