''Visible'' is an album by the

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band,

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, released in 1985. It was the band's final studio album.

Marcel Aymar Marcel Aymar (born in Meteghan, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician, composer, writer and actor. He moved to Greater Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario in 1972 as a teen and was a founding member of the popular Franco-Ontarian group CANO, playing guitar.Kuz ...

, David Burt, Michel Dasti and Michel Kendell were joined on ''Visible'' by

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replacing Wasyl Kohut, who had died of a brain aneurysm, and

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replacing

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. The album was strong and revitalized the band briefly. It included "Fond d'une bouteille", which was the French version of a song recorded on the ''Camouflage'' album, and "L'eloueze" which was written in Aymar's native

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dialect, and most poignantly "J'ai bien vécu", a tribute to band founder

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, who died by suicide in 1978.

Track listing

# "Partons" # "Pauline" # "Au lac du Corbeau noir" # "Invisible" # "Mets tes gants" # "Je rêve de ta lumière" # "Fond d’une bouteille" # "L’éloueze des concessions" # "J’ai bien vécu"

Personnel

CANO: *Kermit - guest *Marcel Aymar - vocals *David C. Burt - electric guitar *Michel Dasti - drums, percussion *John Doerr - bass *Michael Kendel - vocals, keyboards with: *

- electric violin *

- vocals *Produced by Cano

References

{{Authority control 1985 albums CANO albums