Music of Brittany ( Breizh )

I'm into this and have several cd's and also a dvd of a festival.

Purpose of this thread is to seek further recommendations from others and to give mine. Also to help start anyone who has heard a bit and become curious. I have some absolute gems to recommend.

I'd like to hear from anyone here who likes the traditional music of this Celtic corner of France.

Like anything else, there is a lot of dross, but equally there are some wonderful gems out there in relative obscurity.

I mainly post on the Hifiwigwam but I thought I'd reach out here too, as fans of "Breizh" music surely are not many.

Cloth-Ears.

 

Tri Yann?

 

Yes, they can be great.

They can also be terrible and they sometimes look like they are in a pantomime !

But yes, when they are good they are great.

They have many, many albums but what to choose ? Well, I reckon a triple compilation available on French Amazon is actually a good way to access their music on CD.

Amazon.fr page



Samples are available there to hear them.

There are various clips of them on Youtube ( some look awful/hillarious but the music is good )

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The latter two Youtube links are from a dvd called Bretagnes A Bercy, which I think shows off Tri Yann really well. The last link there shows them performing the anthem-like Tri Martolod with Alan Stivell and Dan Ar Braz.

I would highly recommend getting that Bretagnes A Bercy dvd before it gets deleted. It is the one really worth getting I think. I've seen others e.g. Heritages Des Celtes, which really isn't well done. The music on Bretagnes A Bercy is superb and the production, well pretty good for a tv thing.

link at French Amazon

 

Noone else into this stuff ?

Got any recommendations ?

I have more to suggest myself but lets have others too.