*300 copies limited edition* Ars nova meets dark folk, aural cinema, contemporary music, drone and much more... An astonishing album gathering three extended pieces that unfold the works of medieval musical genius Guillaume de Machaut, the greatest and last of the troubadours. Lovingly recorded by sound master Frederic Alstadt, featuring Clara Levy, Stéphane Clor & Eugénie De Mey, this album captures all the poignancy and poetry, of this timeless music. A passionate performance by virtuosic musical lover Michaël|le Grébil Liberg on labels Sub Rosa & Thödol. The long-awaited interpretation of Le Lay de l’Ymage — never recorded before! — is the most beautiful song of the 14th century you will hear this year! 

At the heart of the box is an exclusive & complete interpretation of the Lay de l’Ymage. The repertoire of Machault’s lais is very rarely performed, and this album offers a rare opportunity to hear this unique and particular form, one that unfolds across an extended period of time; an experience of duration, at a time when brutality and acceleration are shrinking our sense of Time. To draw close to a music that lets us hear nuance, doubt, and above all – dulcitude. For it is dulcitude is what we shall speak of, time and again, in the music we are approaching. To nourish Machault’s music with all of this, in the attentive spirit of our time – may well cause a flower to bloom in the garden of listening, and perhaps, an ymage…

On the fringes of the Lay de l’Ymage, are two other pieces. One opens the album, a piece where l’envers vaut l’endroit (Backward’s worth forwards) – as the filmmaker Jean Epstein once said – the polyphonic rondeau Ma Fin est mon Commencement instrumentally reimagined in collaboration with Clara Levy & Stéphane Clor. At the other end, there is a Hörbild, a book of sound images in the orthogonal lineage of german hörspiels, aural cinema & radio poems – an intertwined form where music, distant voices, and field recordings allow us to hear some Oyseaulx d’Avryl… .