For his sixtieth birthday, Philippe De CANCK offers no less than his sixtieth opus ! "La Vie Est Fête De Rencontres" (Musea Parallèle, 2016) is a play-on-words about life being made of joyous encounters, a pop-rock album deeply rooted in the Eighties and the Nineties. The former composer and keyboardist of ACINTYA invited artists of great talent to perform his songs in French, English and even Portuguese (On the Brazilian side), not to mention top-notch musicians coming from Poland, Estonia, India, Asia and France. Here's a masterpiece full of romantism, poetry and virtuosity, fully devoted to music and far away from showing-off. After the writing of his famous gothic requiem, here's another sort of achievement in the musician's carreer. Not to be missed !