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Yann-Fanch Kemener

Title: Si Je Savais Voler - Chants de Bretagne et d'Occitanie

Label: Buda Musique

Cat No:3018165
Format:CD

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A meeting between two traditional song universes, that of Brittany and that of Provence. Two representatives of the “deep song”, both able to perform their monodies in solo: Yann-Fañch Kemener, emblematic of the Breton tradition and renovation, and Renat Sette, with a similar status in Giono’s country. Two characters with extended collecting work in their names, as well as an intimate knowledge of the forms of their songs. Beyond languages, there are similarities of inspiration in their repertoires. Laurent Audemard ensures the arrangement. This composer has contributed his extensive background of creating from traditional music substrata – an experience notably at work in the pan-Mediterranean band Une Anche Passe (for the last two decades, this group has enhanced repertoires of Occitan, Catalan, Italian, Spanish, Balkanic and Maghreb essence). In this work as a ‘music tailor’, he has called in his friend and co-member of Une Anche Passe, the saxophonist François Fava.

A physical performance with voices and reeds, stone hammered-on and feet stomping the ground. A dramaturgy all in contrasts, displaying the up- and down-strokes of two worlds, one Atlantic flavoured, one Mediterranean scented. A show whose sensuality is dispensed by two singers – the Breton Yann-Fañch Kemener and the Provençal Renat Sette – and two instrumentalists, both from Languedoc, Laurent Audemard (clarinets, Languedoc oboe) and François Fava (saxophones). A sound object born after slow gestation – an alchemy of corpuses, languages and modes, a hybridization of diverse legacies.

Track Listing for Si Je Savais Voler - Chants de Bretagne et d'Occitanie
1 Tri Martolod (Three Young Sailors)
2 Borreia Dau Lengadoc-Naut
3 Se Ieu Sabiau Volar (If I Could Fly)
4 Ar Verc'h Elen (the Girl Helen)
5 War Hent Zant-Jakez (On the Road To Saint-James)
6 Caladaire, Lo (Arnaut Guilhem) (the Man Who Paved Roads)
7 Fialosa (the Spinner), La
8 Kanvou (Air Court) (Grieving)
9 Lei Bofets (Bellows)
10 Kanvou (Air Long) (Grieving)
11 Au Promier Jorn De Mai (the First Day of May)
12 Maria-Magdanela
13 'Barzh an Turki (Prisoner In Turkey)
14 Presonier (the Prisoner), Lo
15 Darrier Lo Casteu De Montburn (Behind the Montburn Castle)
16 Berjelenn Ar Roue (the Shepherdess and the King)
17 Series, Les (Lei Nombres) Gousperou Ar Raned (Series (Numbers) Frog Vespers)

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Yann-Fanch Kemener

Si Je Savais Voler - Chants de Bretagne et d'Occit