Sometimes it takes a long time to come to your senses. As Willows for a decade, within the Chances trio, Geneviève Toupin revolved around the subject, voices and melodies preparing the ground. There she is at the heart, at her destination. Clarity and beauty have found each other, allied to the service of a narrative thread in 14 songs like so many chapters of a story. The Franco-Manitoban by origin, the Quebecer by adoption, the Métis by birth and the citizen of the world, the artist and the bearer of memory, weave links. “The lines of time / Wrap around me / A long embroidery / Reminds me of who I am”, she sings in Lines. Delicately, she tells Marie-Anne the “adventurous” grandmother, draws in French and Michif-French the portrait of the “mothers of the Nation”, measures the path traveled in two thousand kilometers, from the Prairies to the Miron quarry. Around her, travellers, Émilie Proulx, Joseph Marchand, François Lafontaine, Robbie Kuster, many others. And us, for the future.
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