Yann Falquet’s debut album, “Les secrets du ciel” (”The Secrets of the Sky”), produced by Quinn Bachand, revisits obscure traditional songs to create a cohesive narrative of yearning, love, and loss. As a founding member of the Quebecois folk trio Genticorum, Falquet brings 20 years of artistry as well as an all-star cast of musicians to this project. Falquet’s acoustic guitar and layered instrumentation meld with the old balladry of French Canada in a genre that he describes playfully as romantico pastoral. By assembling excerpts from archival documents as well as playing with the structures of the songs, Falquet has cre- ated an elegant and original opus. The album’s ten tableaux of dreamy musical textures form a unique sonic world that transcends the boundaries of language. The tracks on “Les secrets du ciel” portray variations on a fundamental human experience. The main characters search for their beloveds across fields, seas, mountains, and dreams, on journeys sometimes melancholic (“Les mers et les montagnes”, “La Rose”), sometimes stoic (“Les îles”, “Courage”), and sometimes magical.