Elisapie reinvigorates the poetry of 10 classic songs, thanks to the raw sounds of the thousand-year-old Inuit language, giving each track a unique and deeply personal quality. Through this act of cultural reappropriation, she tells her story, offers these songs as a gift to her community, and makes her language and culture resonate beyond the Inuit territory.

Taima is the result of an unlikely encounter between singer-songwriter Elisapie, originally from Salluit, and musician-composer Alain Auger, hailing from Abitibi. Despite coming from very different backgrounds, the pair discovered a similar artistic vision that inspired them to collaborate on a multilingual musical project exploring the relations between Inuit and non-indigenous people.

On this new album, the trio fine-tunes the distinctive style they’ve been developing for several years, thanks in part to a fusion of shared influences – from Soft Machine to MC5 to L'Infonie – but also to a rare complicity that can only blossom between such close friends. Population II breaks through their previous sonic frontiers while remaining true to their roots. Therein lies the achievement of Maintenant Jamais.

Nouveau Monde is the fourth album from Jonathan Personne, also known as the singer, guitarist and lyricist from the Montreal-based indie rock band Corridor.