D'en haut - D'en haut (CD)

D'en haut - D'en haut (CD)

Musique d'ailleurs venant d'ici
Musica d'aulhors qui vien d'ací

"On your invitation, we put our luggage loaded of this great moor which running to the Pyrenees. Time step, we take our musical offerings before returning to our explorations. Acoustic duo, but beware... the sweetness is only displayed to trick you, because soon, will prawl around your ears, the dreams of a Gasconha who has not finished fussing."

Pairbon (Roman Colautti) & Tomàs Baudoin:
Chant en occitan (gascon), contrebasse, tambourins à cordes, flûte à trois trous, tabara, boha, bols tibétains, shruti box, hurgy toy, solive, rototom, plaques métalliques.



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A lovely 2-panel digisleeve, designed by Tomàs Baudoin and Bioletta Marcassine.



Titles:

1. A nau denièrs son los garçons 04:16
2. Tres son seroletas 06:31
3. Liròta - Qu’èi hèit l’amor 06:58
4. Au miei deu bòi i a nau ausèths 03:50
5. Au reng deus bienurós 06:57
6. La batalha d'Achòs 07:42
7. Hurgy toy 03:25
8. Crida dab la trompeta 05:25
9. Capitèni Salias 04:28

Press:

// fRoots - www.frootsmag.com - aout/septembre 2013, N°362/363 //
The high land in this case is the Southern slopes of the Pyrénées, the south of Gascony and what we have here is the duo of Roman Colautti and Tomàs Baudoin singing in the Gascon language and accompanying themselves on boha bagpipes, three-holed flûte, double bass and a wide range of percussion instruments.
Well, that's a bare bones of description; now we have to find an explanation of how such a simple format can generate such excitement. Starting with the amazing percussion, you would have to imagine the sort of kitchen implement percussion that you get in some Rory McLeod or Ben Ivitsky productions and imagine it carried to its logical cross-rhythmic conclusion. Where the bass is present it makes itself known in a thundering manner and the boha follows musical rules that are all of its own. The singing is excellent on songs that seem to have a narrow musical compass. When the two of them sing in harmony, they sometimes stray into some unusual but compelling intervals.
Wyrd Folk is a genre that lacks an agreed definition and seems to mean different things according to who is using it. If it means traditional song that has been treated in a thoughtful, experimental, innovative yet weird manner that produces a gripping yet disorienting reaction from the listener, then this is it.
(Vic Smith)