We saw a lot of you at the Analekta booth at the Salon son et image this weekend and we were delighted to meet you all and talk about our catalogue, the new online boutique and the differences between mp3 and FLAC formats. A special $4.99 rebate was offered to all participants, so that they could appreciate by themselves the impressive quality of the FLAC files when visiting the www.analekta.com boutique for the first time.

Now is the time to register and really get the maximum out of our online boutique. To do so, you just have to follow that link.

You’re still unsure about the file format you want to download? You want to try it but still have some questions? At any time while visiting www.analekta.com, don’t hesitate to click on the pink tab at the right of your screen. That will lead you in a flash to our very complete FAQ section.

The only thing missing is you! Come and join us…

The ANALEKTA.COM tent

Matthieu Csernel, our Communications & Marketing Coordinator

Julie Fournier, our production manager

Miss Weather seems willing to collaborate for the long weekend so, why not seize the opportunity to plan an outing to picture perfect Mont-Tremblant and attend one or the other events to be presented as part of Fête de la musique? Between two concerts, plan a stopover at the ANALEKTA.com tent, located at the entrance of the site, and come and chat with the Web team! You’ll better understand our new and improved Website but will also be able to learn more on downloading classical music.

Two listening booths will be featured so you can compare two digital formats, mp3 (well known) and the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), a file format that gives you the chance to listen to classical music without compromizing on sound quality. Indeed, the sound quality of the file is even greater than that of a CD and is the exact copy of what was recorded in the studio! The file takes a few minutes to download but offers all the subtilities, dynamics, richness and depth of sound you’d expect from a concert experience!

Don’t take my word for it! Come and listen to the fall new releases in that format and be convinced! FLAC files will be available on www.analekta.com really soon! A new way to appreciate great music!

Kent Nagano and Unsuk Chin talk about their working relationship and the two works featured on the Analekta CD, with violonist Viviane Hagner. To hear the Violin Concerto and Rocaná, it’s here.

He designed Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà’s last album cover but who is he?

Born in 1971, “with a pencil in his hand,” Carlito Dalceggio was introduced to art by his father, who was painting as a hobby. He started to paint more seriously at 18 and started to show his paintings in various industrial alternative spaces.

Though he holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from UQÀM, he spent half of his studies designing nightclubs in Europe and, at 19, founded the ORGANIC FRESH HEROES, his first art group with David Pelletier and made several happenings, parties, and exhibitions in Montreal and in Europe, completing the cycle by a giant happening at Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal.  He then started extended travels all over the world to learn art in the tradition of all cultures, from Mauritania, to Morocco, to Bali, Mexico and Thailand, creating on location hundreds of paintings and murals.

In 1999, he founded CIRCO DE BAKUZA, with which he created giant events for the Just for Laughs Festival, world premiere Galas for Cirque du Soleil and many more special events. He also collaborated in several sculpture projects with his father and on many films with different directors.  For 10 years, he created an independent distribution system for his paintings. Only in 2003 has he started to present his work in art galleries and art fairs, in order to reach a wider audience.

He has created large-scale pieces for international headquarters of companies such as Cirque du Soleil and L’Oréal Canada, as well as restaurants and clubs throughout the globe.

His artistic statement starts with the following few sentences:
“By the act of painting, I transcend my human state. I search for other ways. I seek for a universal pattern, the ultimate strokes of freedom. I reach a visionary state and totally leave reality to give shape to another world.
I breathe to paint, I paint to breathe.
Art does not try to reproduce nature, art is nature.”

To find out more about the artist and see projects, sketches, read excerpts from his diaries, click here…