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La Baracande : La Baracande (BeCoq)

The third album from the French/Belgium La Baracande, with vocalist/violinist Basile Bremaud leading a quartet of violin, guitar, lap steel, pedal board, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, and drone, singing long form ballads of epic tales of life and love that they describe as speaking with a voice to the living and our ghosts.
 

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Basile Bremaud-voice, violin

Guilhem Lacroux-guitar, lap steel, Pedalboard

Pierre-Vincent Fortunier-Bagpipes, violin

Yann Gourdon-Hurdy Gurdy, Drone, Percussive Feet


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Label: BeCoq
Catalog ID: BeCoq29
Squidco Product Code: 25462

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: France
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at the Claus Workshops, in Brussels, Blegium, in January 2016, by Yann Gourdon.

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The third album from the French/Belgium La Baracande, with vocalist/violinist Basile Bremaud leading a quartet of violin, guitar, lap steel, pedal board, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, and drone, singing long form ballads of epic tales of life and love that they describe as speaking with a voice to the living and our ghosts.


Artist Biographies

"

As a musician, composer and sound artist I consider the vibratory fields and perception as a medium. My work privileges the observation of acoustic phenomena in dynamic relation with the environment - architecture / landscape.

Together I practice the traditional musics of the Massif Central to the hurdy-gurdy. I approach this practice by listening to collections and conduct a research work on this repertoire within the collective La Nòvia .

Through these different aspects of my work, I deal only with the qualities of sound.

I only consider the work of sound in conjunction with an environment - a landscape or an architecture. My pieces are of an established duration and take the form of autonomous devices in that they do not require the intervention of an interpreter. The process involved reveals latent acoustic phenomena induced by the physical specificities of the sound propagation space.

I work mainly from electronically generated pure tones, feedback or continuous sounds recorded and broadcast by means of amplified systems; Nevertheless there is no question of sound as an object - a loudspeaker, a sound, a listener. It is not enough for the listener to cross a space if his listening is oriented on the narrative object, he must move his attention to the vibratory fields. The device is not a visual pretext legitimizing the plasticity of the piece but is chosen for its qualities to emit sounds. I consider the volumes and the surfaces produced as a new possible place."

COLLABORATIONS

Yvan Etienne, Marie Richeux, James Taylor, Laurent Faulon, Jérôme Poret, Boris Achour, Pascal Broccolichi, Jérôme Nœtinger, Eve Couturier, Paul Léandri et l'école d'architecture de Clermont-Ferrand, Haute Ecole d'Art & Design de Genève, Ecole d'Art & Designde St Etienne, Philippe Caillot, Antez, Hervé Boghossian, Clakton Tendring, Eric Cordier, Basile Brémaud, Jacques Puech, les Esprits Solubles, Delphine Gigoux, Lionel Hoche, le Collectif Ishtar, la Douzaine, Guilhem Lacroux, les Brayauds, Frédéric Le Junter, Daunik Lazro, Fréderic Jouanlong, Ryan Kernoa, Agathe Max, Musiques Démesurées, Delphine Reist, Lucia Recio, Jérémie Sauvage, Mathieu Tilly...


FRANCE, depuis 2005, http://www.the-drone.com/
TOAD, depuis 2006, http://www.la-novia.fr/toad.html
VACUUM, depuis 2007, http://www.antez.org/vacuum.html
DUO PUECHGOURDON, depuis 2009, http://www.la-novia.fr/duo_puechgourdon.html
TRIO PUECH / GOURDON / BRÉMAUD, depuis 2010,
http://www.la-novia.fr/puech_gourdon_bremaud.html
LA CLEDA, depuis 2011, http://www.la-novia.fr/la_cleda.html
LA BARACANDE, depuis 2012, http://www.la-novia.fr/la_baracande.html
JÉRICHO, depuis 2012, http://www.la-novia.fr/jericho.html
LE VERDOUBLE, depuis 2012, http://www.la-novia.fr/le_verdouble.html
FLUX, depuis 2015, http://www.la-novia.fr/flux.htm-Yann Gourdon Website (http://ygourdon.net/bio.html)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. La Haut La Haut Dedans La Tour 11:24

2. L'amour d'un Garcon 8:00

3. Le Vingt-Cinq Du Mois D'Avril 16:35

4. Tout En Me promenant 6:26

5. La Belle Couturiere 11:19

6. La Soeur Et Le Menuisier 10:43

7. Un Jour J'Ai Pris Le Temps 8:16

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