Carré de sable is the hard to classify debut of Guido del Fabbro. Fabbro (1980) is a violonist and composer from Montréal. Interested in both improvised and written music he gathered his experience in groups like Fanfare Pourpour, L’Hotel du boût de la terre, and Rouge Ciel. On his first solo effort sound experiments and instrumental pieces succeed each other. Both of them are nor extremely experimental nor plainly conventional. But his music fits perfectly with the esthetics of the Ambiances Magnétiques label. Throughout the album Del Fabbro plays violin and a great diversity of instruments: violins, guitars, mandoline, harmonica, flutes, and many more. He is helped by Marie-Claude Lamoureux on voice in two tracks and Pierre-Emmanuel Poizat on bass clarinet also on two tracks. With Carré de sable he composed a multitracked work that is a pleasure to listen to. Folky dance tunes and abstract sound experiments succeed each other, and go wonderfully hand in hand. Del Fabbro explains, “This collection of hotel chamber music pieces is the soundtrack to the time taken to create personal ecosystems & to have fun with very simple materials, like a child in a sandbox”