BOMBARDE - BINIOU KOZ
BAS stands for Bodadeg Ar Sonerion or Assembly of Musicians association created right in the middle of World War II in 1943. Here the musicians are bombarde and binioù players. Polig Montjarret and other Breton people got the idea because traditional Breton music (and way of life generally speaking) was fast disappearing after World War I. People in Brittany saw traditional music as ''old stuff'' like the language and it was time to go forward and be as'' French'' as possible. If the Breton language managed to resist in some parts of the country the fashions from Paris were too strong and attractive for young people to ignore.
So in order to preserve what was left musicwise that group of young musicians organized workshops, musical events, published a lot of score books etc... They also invented the ''bagad'' or band of bombardes, binioù bras and drums based on the Scottish pipe band model. They have succeeded beyond all hope; BAS still exists and Breton traditional music has been thriving ever since.
The title of this LP refers to a song for the dance called laridé; bambocherion is in fact the French word ''bambocheurs'' which refers to people who like good food and wine, who like to party. Breton sonneurs had this reputation to drink too much and live out of the ordinary way of life which was not true most of them being peasants or craftmen; but some of them were certainly free thinkers.
As the text in French says it was very difficult to choose some couples of sonneurs because there are so many excellent players. Seven of them were selected including musicians from Lower and Upper Brittany with a good choice of dances, melodies and marches.
The cover is a picture of the memorial to the sonneurs of Plozenet.
Merci Herve!!
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