Cirque du Soleil

This box collects several recordings of Satie's piano music by Dutch pianist Reinbert de Leeuw, going back as far as 1977, with an English-language DVD (not reviewed, but the idea is attractive) including a fictionalized presentation of Satie's relationship with artist Suzanne Valadon (after they broke up, he hung in his window cataloging her faults, but the film apparently doesn't get to the fun stuff). The provenance of the music on the third CD, consisting mostly of songs and featuring soprano Marjanne Kweksilber, is unclear from the booklet, and it's a poor choice for the non-Francophone – no song texts are provided at all. The piano music from de Leeuw is another matter, however. It is immediately distinctive in its slow tempos and dreamy, rather lugubrious tone.

Nguyên Lê’s "Overseas" – the great guitarist brings jazz, traditional Vietnamese music and hip-hop to the music for “Cirque-Nouveau”.

À 29 ans, écoeurée de sa vie en général et même d'elle-même, Véronique Daudelin part en Inde pour quatre mois en espérant que ce voyage changera sa vie. Ce ne sera pas aussi simple. Au coeur d'une crise existentielle assumée, la narratrice cherche «tout»: qui elle est, sa place dans le monde et un sens à son existence. Rien de moins. Elle cherche des indices non seulement à travers le yoga et la méditation, mais aussi à travers les «personnages» qu'elle croise en route: des réfugiés tibétains, un itinérant, un mort, un chien…