"Aubades, the new album from post-classical piano icon Jean-Michel Blais, marks the Montreal-born musician's transition from pianist to composer, as he writes for an ensemble for the first time in his career. Written during the pandemic and following a breakup, Blais has used his distinctive musical voice to create a defiantly uplifting record with glistening instrumental textures and warm major tonalities. The album's title refers to the ""aubade"", a Middle Ages morning love song about lovers separating at daybreak, a dawn serenade." Murmures, Passepied, Nina, Flneur, Ouessant, If You Build It They Will Come, Amour, Yanni, Absinthe, Carrousel, Doux
