****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Michel Heroux: Collage

Here is some of the most sublime music you’ll come across this year. Guitarist Michel Heroux features himself in duets, trios and quartets performing his own luscious pieces on this evocative album. A few of the songs, such as “Easy” and “Valse # 2” are in electric guitar format, but even here the mood is coy, pensive and tensile. The rest of the time, you have a breezy Brazilian “Namaste”, a sing-songy folk tune “Barcarole” and genteel rhythms on “Lawns.” Quiet strums are palpable on “Ennioi” while sounds sashay back and forth on ”Oups!”Delicacy is the name of the game here, with “Tango” and “LouLou” being high water marks of an unforgettable session. Grab it, and put it alongside your Hall, Metheny and de Lucia albums!

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