CHANTS POPULAIRES DE BRETAGNE/TROUZERION
FOLK SONGS OF BRITTANY
Arfolk, 1979, SB 378
This is the second album by this group of male singers from Morbihan in Brittany (see my post in 2022). The eldest singer was Job Kerlagad (real name Joseph Guillam) born in 1902; He lived in Carnac as an oyster farmer. He died in 1996. The second eldest one was Jean Le Meut from Ploemel a farmer born in 1925. He passed away in 2012 after twenty years in the band. The four younger singers are still alive and still singing. They all went to Washington in 1983 invited by the Folklife Festival.
All songs are dance songs except for track B3.
There is a difference with the first album : here they use what is called ''tiling'' meaning that the band starts singing before the leader finishes his part. This is unusual for this area of Morbihan around Carnac, Ploemel, Plouharnel ...
An inner sleeve is supposed to be sold with the album but I never got it.
Their third album will be posted soon.
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