{"product_id":"687700120001","title":"THIS ASTER ADAPTATIONS OF EMILE NELLIGAN | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Aster is a suite of songs based on poems by the French-Canadian poet Emile Nelligan. Nelligan was born in 1879; published his first poems at sixteen, and was heralded as a rising star of Canadian literature. The poet produced his entire oeuvre by the age of nineteen, and was then, committed to a mental hospital where he remained for the rest of his life, and never wrote again. A century later, poet-songwriter Brian Laidlaw was offered a Hinge Artist Residency to live and work for a stretch of several weeks, translating Nelligan's poems from French into English, and then setting the texts to music. Working with his chamber-folk ensemble The Family Trade, the resulting tracks are an attempt to capture in English-language music the stirring effects in the original French-language poetry. This Aster is a soundscape of ghosts and snowfall, love and loss, and the golden rattle of falling leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LAIDLAW, BRIAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46066873270517,"sku":"687700120001","price":19.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9325\/5669\/files\/01_f4c78aec-8d81-4b8b-be14-297d8f297eab.jpg?v=1731311773","url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/687700120001","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}