Au nord de notre vie (In the North of Our Lives) is an album by CANO, released in 1977.[1][2] It was the band's second album and its last with founding member André Paiement.

Au nord de notre vie
Studio album by
Released1977
GenreProgressive rock
Length45:24
LabelA&M
ProducerDon Oriolo
CANO chronology
Tous dans l'même bateau
(1976)
Au nord de notre vie
(1977)
Eclipse
(1978)

The album's centrepiece track was a suite of three poems by writer Robert Dickson, including the poem that gave the album its title.[2]

The 1980 National Film Board documentary, Cano - notes sur une expérience collective, documents the recording of this album and highlights each member in the studio.[3][4]

Track listing edit

  1. "Che-Zeebe" (3:33) - (Rachel Paiement, Marcel Aymar)
  2. "Automne" (4:37) - (Aymar)
  3. "À la poursuite du nord (Suite)" (10:55)
    (a) "Au nord de notre vie" - (Robert Dickson, Michel Kendel, A. Paiement, R. Paiement)
    (b) "En mouvement" - (Robert Dickson, J. Doerr, R. Paiement)
    (c) "Viens suivre" - (Dickson, David Burt)
  4. "La Première fois" (4:41) - (A. Paiement)
  5. "Mon pays" (12:10) - (A. Paiement, Burt, Kendel, John Doerr, Wasyl Kohut)
  6. "Frère Jacques" (3:22) - (trad. arr. Burt)
  7. "Spirit of the North" (5:59) - (Kohut)

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ CANO (1977). "Au nord de notre vie". Discogs. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  2. ^ a b Jacques Paquin, Nouveaux territoires de la poésie francophone au Canada 1970-2000.University of Ottawa Press, 2012. ISBN 9782760319905. p. 212.
  3. ^ "CANO, Notes on a Collective Experience". National Film Board of Canada. 1979. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  4. ^ Ménard, Jacques (1979). "Sur film; Cano : notes sur une expérience collective". Liaison. Retrieved 2022-02-18.