favorite overtly electronic Menny / Malicorne moment = that vocal choral cut-up loop on La Blanche Biche
I listened to it when I got it last month a little distant from it -- but it's good that it is not even trying for the same sense of mysticism or mystery, the production is very modern and upfront. The second track is a blues number that kicks off a very different, less pastoral vibe from the outset. Three weeks later I listened again and I've been playing it quite a few times since then. Once I got over expectations of this being a sequel, her voice sounds timeless, the songwriting is beautiful, and she still completely flips out on hurdy gurdy on more than a few tracks
― Milton Parker, Monday, 30 May 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Got this lp last week. Maison Rose. The Lion version of the cd is very nice sound. Odd details catch your attention, hurdy gurdy lines appearing as though out of the mist.
bet it's a cliche to compare it to Alain Stivell meets Linda Perhacs.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was this thread that I found on google and lead me to this site in the first place too. Don't know why it's taken me til now to buy the disc.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Topaze, live 23-04-2011, Live in Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYSLxrFlVJk
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
is anyone else familiar with Valentin Clastrier? his "Migration" suite (spaced-out, longform hurdy gurdy piece) reminds me a bit of Emmanuelle Parrenin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLHk5HqShWI
(and it's literally the only thing I've heard by him, so I'd welcome any recommendations)
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 03:59 (ten years ago) link
("spaced-out" probably not the best description for something so vigorous, but ykwim)
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Valentin Clastrier's self-titled album from last year is highly recommended for fans of avant-hurdy-gurdy music. his pieces are more like Indian ragas than trad folk songs, and his use of an effects pedal on a few tracks (the opener and closer + "Vents Solaires") is unique and unnerving. his hurdy gurdy is a custom-built, 27-stringed, electric-acoustic monstrosity, as he demonstrates here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G934ujHV-E
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Sunday, 23 March 2014 05:22 (ten years ago) link
https://emmanuelleparrenin.bandcamp.com/album/p-r-landra
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 15 April 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
Nice stuff. She also has a RSD 12" with Etienne Jaumet coming out on a French record store's label:
https://www.discogs.com/Emmanuelle-Parrenin-Eat-Gas-Etienne-Jaumet-Volturnus-Balagu%C3%A8re/release/10052245
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 15 April 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
The album she put out last March is quite something: https://johnkoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/targala-la-maison-qui-nen-est-pas-une. Jazzier/global and less medieval than Maison rose (I haven't heard anything else by her), but definitely of a piece with it
― rob, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link