Once the storm has passed, we can see the damage. But what has become of this gem of an album? It is the second from Éveline Grégoire-Rousseau, emeritus harpist of the Barr Brothers and a whole host of artists who appreciate the musician’s fairly unlimited palette. We will be able to see and hear her with Viviane Audet this summer. As long as she brings surviving copies ofAfter the storm, seize the opportunity. Éveline is a delicate singer as well as a musician and composer on the harp at the heart of brilliantly varied arrangements, folk-prog in the title song, jazzy-prog in the enchantress Roadtripa bit of a traditional song in Golden wheatshort song for Your old t-shirt. Journeys to the plural of beauty in all its forms. Without saying it too loudly. We think a little of Émilie Proulx as Éveline is so discreet, so much so in the watermark on the photo on the front of the LP cover that we look for her a little. Prisms, the song that closes the album, tells us clearly: the singer is lost in her forest of sweet sounds. Let’s go find her.
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