

Editors' Notes There’s a wistfulness to this album that emerges from its faded colours and the vintage feel of the muffled piano on many of its tracks. French-Canadian pianist/composer Alexandra Stréliski’s music is fragile and vulnerable, its surface optimism a mask for her deep introspection. But it’s also calming: The opening “Plus tôt” is a reassuring waltz, “The Quiet Voice” a lilting, innocent miniature. Stréliski returns to the full-throated sound of a grand piano for the beautiful “Burnout Fugue,” a mesmerizing toccata, before delivering a gentle, rippling ballad, “Revient le jour.”
Plus tôt
1
2:59
The Quiet Voice
2
2:28
Par la fenêtre de Théo
3
2:53
Ellipse
4
2:17
Changing Winds
5
3:13
Interlude
6
3:33
Blind Vision
7
3:23
Burnout Fugue
8
2:52
Overturn
9
4:17
Revient le jour
10
3:33
Le nouveau départ
11
3:35