MUSIQUE ET CHANTS TRADITIONNELS
DE HAUTE NORMANDIE
JOLIE BRISE
TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND SONGS
FROM UPPER NORMANDY
JOLIE BRISE
Diskan, 1978, DK 009
This second-hand album is the first album of the French band Jolie Brise (meaning ''lovely breeze'' which was the name of a sailing boat). They released their second and last album in 1980.
This trio is typical of the period when during the seventies young people went visiting older people in their area for getting songs and tunes from the past. Since the first world war popular cutltures outside Paris were declining fast especially in regions near the capital and speaking dialects of French. This culture was almost gone in the seventies because the people from the country didn't want to hand it down as it was looked down upon. However when the French revival started it was still possible to collect and record something. So Jolie Brise was very important in that part of Normandy, le Pays de Caux on the right bank or the river Seine where they collected many songs.
As it is said on the back cover : ''It (this album) represents a tribute to a culture which must not be a mere souvenir but enrich our present time.''
All tracks are songs about sailors, soldiers, forced marriage or funny songs.
The sound recording is not top and maybe the pressing either (on side B); Diskan was a Breton label which has disappeared since.
Text in French
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