Chemins De Terre
Encyclopedia
Chemins de Terre was a folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 album by Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell is a Breton musician and singer, recording artist and master of the celtic harp who from the early 1970s revived global interest in the Celtic harp and Celtic music as part of world music.- Background: learning Breton music and culture :Alan was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom...

, originally released in 1973. It was produced by Franck Giboni. It was retitled From Celtic Roots... in England and Celtic Rock in Germany.

Track listing

  1. Susy MacGuire (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 03:35
  2. Ian Morrison Reel (Peter McLeod, arr. Alan Stivell) 04:09
  3. She Moved Through The Fair (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 04:13
  4. Can Y Melinydd (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 01:59
  5. Oidhche Mhaith (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 01:53
  6. An Dro Nevez (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 03:45
  7. Maro Ma Mestrez (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 03:08
  8. Brezhoneg' Raok (Alan Stivell) 03:08
  9. An Hani A Garan (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 04:11
  10. Metig (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 04:07
  11. Kimiad (Traditional arr. Alan Stivell) 03:34

Personnel

  • Alan Stivell
    Alan Stivell
    Alan Stivell is a Breton musician and singer, recording artist and master of the celtic harp who from the early 1970s revived global interest in the Celtic harp and Celtic music as part of world music.- Background: learning Breton music and culture :Alan was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom...

     - Celtic harp, vocals, Scottish bagpipes, whistle, mellotron
    Mellotron
    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

    , timbales, harmonium
    Harmonium
    A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...

  • Gabriel Yacoub
    Gabriel Yacoub
    Gabriel Yacoub was born in Paris, of a Lebanese father and a French mother. He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group that toured France in 1971. Before he founded Malicorne, Gabriel and Marie Yacoub recorded Pierre de Grenoble . Indeed this was originally intended to be the name of...

     - acoustic guitar, banjo, dulcimer
    Appalachian dulcimer
    The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...

    , psaltery
    Psaltery
    A psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family. The psaltery of Ancient Greece dates from at least 2800 BC, when it was a harp-like instrument...

    , vocal
  • René Werneer - fiddle, vocals
  • Pascal Stive - organ, piano
  • Jean-Luc Hallereau - bass, vocal
  • Dan Ar Bras
    Dan Ar Braz
    Dan Ar Braz, born Daniel Le Bras , is a French guitarist and the founder of Héritage des Celtes.- The apprenticeship years :...

     - electric and acoustic guitars, vocal
  • Michel Santangelli - drums
  • Marie Yacoub - spoon
    Spoon
    A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery , especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for serving. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients...

    s, vocals
  • Elyane Werneer, Mireille Werneer - vocals
  • Michel Delaporte - tabla
    Tabla
    The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...

    s

with
  • (Breton pipe band) Bagad Bleimor - bagpipes, bombardes
    Bombard (music)
    The bombard, also known as talabard or ar vombard in the Breton language or bombarde in French, is a contemporary conical bore double reed instrument widely used to play traditional Breton music. The bombard is a woodwind instrument; the reed is held between the lips. The bombard is a member of the...

    , Scottish drums
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK