Lhasa de Sela remembered, on album and in concert

Yves Desrosiers remembers when he first met Lhasa de Sela. The year was 1991, and the guitarist was working with Jean Leloup, having collaborated on the latter’s 1990 breakthrough album L’amour est sans pitié and the ensuing tour.
Little did he know de Sela would become his key collaborator for the next decade, which he would come to remember as “one of the greatest coups of my career.”
Lhasa (as she became known) was 18, freshly arrived from San Francisco, with &l