Snipettes! and Morceaux choisis were first released in 1992 as a limited-edition cassette, in a run of 250 numbered copies. This new CD is the result of an ideal collaboration between two record players (an automatic Garrard and a belt-driven Thorens) and presents playing performances of two invisible orchestras, formed by the sounds from Eddie Osborne’s album Baldwin Organ & Bongos and from contemporary music and musique concrète CDs. Snipettes! is a wonderful musical fantasy we rarely get the chance to witness, either on stage or en record.

The last release of Joane Hétu, Nouvelle musique d’hiver, which you may want to listen to while watching a bonfire, is a real audio documentary about winter constructed in four sections: Joyeux temps, Être dans le vent, La marmotte, and Calcium sloche. You will hear the musicians of the Ensemble SuperMusique (Jean Derome, Guillaume Dostaler, Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Pierre Tanguay), Lori Freedman, Martin Tétreault, and Gilles Derome in thrilling improvisations.

The albums from the 4-CD boxset Pandore by Jocelyn Robert are now available separately. You will be enchanted by {nbio:robert_jo}’s challenging sound art:

• 6 Drawers 4 Spoons, a duo with Éric Gagnon
• Slow Sparks from the Split-Voiced Buddha, an electroacoustic work based on sounds from Lhassa, Tibet
• Les scaphandres, a duo with Laetitia Sonami, with whom he worked in 1999
• 24 exercices de parallaxe, works for Disklavier, in collaboration with Louis Ouellet

Le Silence des hommes [The Silence of Men] sees the poet and performer D. Kimm paired up with musician Bernard Falaise for a journey through their love of words and emotions. Moreover, three love songs are interpreted by special guests Pierre Cartier, André Duchesne, and Michel Faubert.

Marie-Soleil Bélanger (violin, voice) and Normand Guilbeault (double bass) share their passion of salt, triggered by a moving visit at the salt ponds in Guérande, on their new album Les salines.

Ziya Tabassian is well known for his work with Constantinople. His new album, Tombak, is a solo immersion in the Persian percussion’s universe, filled with captivating compositions.