CLARINETTES ET ANCIENNES DANSES POPULAIRES DU TREGOR
Chanteurs et musiciens de Bretagne N°5
CLARINETS AND OLD FOLK DANCES FROM TREGOR
Singers and musicians from Brittany N°5
Dastum Bro Dreger/Dastum , 1991, DAS-115
This is part of a special collection dedicated to some singers and musicians from various regions in Brittany that was isssued on cassettes only. Although of great value they were never reissued on compact disc. I already posted several of them here for that reason. But Dastum had decided recently to provide free access to this series on their site : https://www.dastumedia.bzh/
Of course it's in French and partly in Breton and you would need to create an account to access these documents; something maybe not easy if you don't speak French. So I decided to post the other tapes as well.
Here we have an excellent example of what could be the work of somebody who is a musician, a singer, a scholar and collector all at once. Bernard Lazbleiz (his surname means the wolf killer in Breton) is such a man knowing that he also speaks Breton and has been working on Breton culture for decades especially his native area the Tregor or Bro Dreger in Breton.
The music is great and the booklet in French is just perfect. Lazbleiz talks about the clarinet of course, an instrument that was quite in fashion for a century in numerous parts of Brittany often played in pairs like the bombarde and biniou formation. He talks about old players who maintained this tradition with difficulty until the 1950s; as soon as the 1920s just after the war the clarinet was les and less in demand as were the other traditional instruments and the music they provided as well. But during the folk revival in the 70s young people started to play the clarinet again; the music recorded here is mainly played by such revivalists and one musician born in 1932 Marcel Méhu. Bernard Lazbleiz sings and plays the box on sole tracks.
The second part of the booklet deals with dances that disappeared almost but that were also saved from oblivion by revivalists.
The last part deals with the musicians who took part to the recordings.
Thank you very much Herve for this musical treasure!! Thank you also for the booklet!! Do you have any other recording from this series or the Sonneurs De Couple Biniou-Bombarde En Bretagne ?
ReplyDeleteAs I said Dastum has all the series available on their site; so I'll post the remaining ones bit by bit. If you look for sonneurs de couple there is Fête plin du Danouët and Trophée Per Guillou in this series that are already posted here.
ReplyDeleteSorry I haven't posted Trophée Per Guillou yet; it will be the next one
ReplyDeleteMuch Appreciated Herve!!
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