FEST.NOZ NEVEZ INEDITS
NEW FEST.NOZ UNPUBLISHED
Arfolk, 1974, SB 320, SB 321
Arfolk is one the oldest Breton labels founded in Lorient in 1967 by Jo Gragnic. Following its primary goal the promotion of Breton music the label recorded different artists and genre : the traditional kan ha diskan and binioù & bombard music as well as bagadoù, the Breton pipe-bands. When the revival started in Brittany launched by Stivell among others Arfolk also recorded plenty of folk bands.
Here we have a double album with traditional or so singers and musicians as well as folk groups. There are no information about the songs and tunes or the people. If we believe the label all these tracks are unpublished and were made especially for this album.
The sentence on the cover means ''Breton music is''.
So to help you to follow and enjoy the music I list below what types of dances are presented here.
Here we have a double album with traditional or so singers and musicians as well as folk groups. There are no information about the songs and tunes or the people. If we believe the label all these tracks are unpublished and were made especially for this album.
The sentence on the cover means ''Breton music is''.
So to help you to follow and enjoy the music I list below what types of dances are presented here.
disc 1 :
A1 the Pennec brothers play a three-part set from the Fisel country made of fisel-bal-fisel
A2 the Pennec brothers play a particular gavotte from the Pourlet country
A3 Yann Vikel Bourdieg sings a laridé in Breton from the Vannes country with the band called an Trouzerion Goh (see my earlier post)
A4 Ar Penseerien (the shipwreckers in Breton) play one gavotte from Inner Brittany
A1 the Pennec brothers play a three-part set from the Fisel country made of fisel-bal-fisel
A2 the Pennec brothers play a particular gavotte from the Pourlet country
A3 Yann Vikel Bourdieg sings a laridé in Breton from the Vannes country with the band called an Trouzerion Goh (see my earlier post)
A4 Ar Penseerien (the shipwreckers in Breton) play one gavotte from Inner Brittany
B1/B2/B3 the Coulouarn sisters sing a set (plin-bal-plin) from the Fanch country
B4 the Kergosien brothers play two an dro (the circle). The first an dro is a peculier one;
the tune sounds identical to ''estolisan to sperveri'' a wedding song from the Greek island of Rhodes. I knew the Greek song before getting this album and it stroke me immediately. Is it possible that a Breton tune from the Vannes country be more than similar to a Greek tune without any contacts ? or did these ''sonneurs'' adopted this wedding song that can be danced to like an dro ? The Greek song is performed by a traditional female singer and choir with a lyra and a laouto players who were members of a folk ensemble set up by Simon Karas the great musicologist on the album named in French ''Voyage en Grèce-Simon Karas'' published by Le Chant du Monde in the 1970s. I added this track to this album.
B5 the Kergosien brothers play a laridé
the tune sounds identical to ''estolisan to sperveri'' a wedding song from the Greek island of Rhodes. I knew the Greek song before getting this album and it stroke me immediately. Is it possible that a Breton tune from the Vannes country be more than similar to a Greek tune without any contacts ? or did these ''sonneurs'' adopted this wedding song that can be danced to like an dro ? The Greek song is performed by a traditional female singer and choir with a lyra and a laouto players who were members of a folk ensemble set up by Simon Karas the great musicologist on the album named in French ''Voyage en Grèce-Simon Karas'' published by Le Chant du Monde in the 1970s. I added this track to this album.
B5 the Kergosien brothers play a laridé
disc 2 :
A1 Sonerien Du (the Black Pipers/Musicians in Breton) play a set of gavotten-tamm kreiz- gavotten (ar menez)
A2/A3/A4 the Coulouarn sisters sing a gavotten-tamm kreiz-gavotten
A5 the Pennec brothers play perhaps a set of ''ronds'' from Loudéac with a bal between
B1 the Kergosien brothers play an an dro
B2 the Coulouarn sisters sing a set of gavotten ar menez with a tamm kreiz (litteraly the bit in the middle) between
B3 the folk band Kouerien Sant Yann play two laridé (round dance from the Vannetais country)
A1 Sonerien Du (the Black Pipers/Musicians in Breton) play a set of gavotten-tamm kreiz- gavotten (ar menez)
A2/A3/A4 the Coulouarn sisters sing a gavotten-tamm kreiz-gavotten
A5 the Pennec brothers play perhaps a set of ''ronds'' from Loudéac with a bal between
B1 the Kergosien brothers play an an dro
B2 the Coulouarn sisters sing a set of gavotten ar menez with a tamm kreiz (litteraly the bit in the middle) between
B3 the folk band Kouerien Sant Yann play two laridé (round dance from the Vannetais country)
Globally this compilation is not the best one but not the worst either. Although Sonerien Du have been one of the big folk bands for decades I'm not that gone on them. To me the best part is the track by Kouerien Sant Yann (the Peasants from Saint John) with an interesting approach to music played by solid musicians. They had three albums out on the Arfolk label. Unlike Sonerien Du the band disbanded in the eighties. Their albums were reissued on different CDs. Alain Pennec was also a member of Kouerien.
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