Sound clips are offered on the FNAC site (Uli's link below) for the Saint-Genest album, but you can't buy the recording from the site, either as a CD or MP3's. This recording is still commercially unavailable, as far as I can tell. I agree with Martin that Ecoliers de Saint Genest and Cafe Charbons are pretty essential recordings for an HG player to own. Maybe we'll see them on iTunes or eMusic soon. Meanwhile, contact me if you want to buy unauthorized copies (_www.frenchtradmusic.com_ (http://www.frenchtradmusic.com) ). Let's support the musicians where we can by buying the classic stuff that's commercially available, and maybe start to gently pester our favorite French trad musicians to make the other stuff available as MP3s (anyone want to ask Gilles about getting Saint Genest onto iTunes?) Mitch Gordon [email protected] writes:
Hi, talking about these *old* days and the AMTA recordings I would like to give a hint on my favourite album from these early days. It is the album "Danses de Berry" by "Les Ecoliers de Saint-Genest". Despite having listened to hundreds of drone music LPs / CDs since as a music critique for Germany's Folk-MICHEL and later Folker mag this is still one of my all time favourites. The band features a very young, 16 or 17 years old Gilles Chabenat, and, as the subtitle says, it contains: "Airs Nouveaux pour Danses Anciennes", new music for old dances. Many of these then "new airs" are today probably perceived to be traditional. Chabenat for example introduced his today widely renowned "Poules Huppées". These kids at their time were pioneers in what nowadays is called "musique trad": they composed new tunes in the old style. What made the record also exceptional is that they combined hurdy-gurdies and bagpipes with cello. If you don't know the CD, you should give it a try. you can listen to some samples here: http://musique.fnac.com/a662705/Saint-Genest-les-Ecoliers-De-Danses-du-Berry -CD-album Best regards, Uli Am 10.12.10 06:25 schrieb "David Gillett" unter <[email protected]>: > I just checked on eMusic and they have no less than 27 albums from the > AMTA catalog! eMusic is a subscription service that gives you a > monthly credit enough for about two or three albums per month, but you > can purchase Booster Packs if you really want (need) to binge at any > time - like finding the AMTA catalog and can't wait! (No, I don't > have any association with the company besides being a satisfied > customer) > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Augusto de Ornellas Abreu > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Eric Raillard playing that tune >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yraFIAlgOUU >> >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Colin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I may finally actually join iTunes now. >>> It was hearing Chavannee on a BBC Radio 2 program "Folkweave" that first >>> really alerted me to the HG (would be early 70's) and, in particular, the >>> Bois de Vaux tune which captivated me (I have learned most of it, honest). I >>> taped the program on cassette - poor quality of course - and it was years >>> after that I joined this group in an attempt to identify the tune (you did, >>> of course). >>> Ah, memories. :-) >>> >>> Colin Hill >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 6:52 PM >>> Subject: Re: [HG-new] French trad on iTunes >>> Search by artist on iTunes...and it's far from foolproof. For example, >>> searching "Patrick Bouffard" brings up a list of tunes from Joue >>> Jenzat...click on one of those and you get to the album. To get to Rabaterie >>> and Revenant de Paris search on "Trio Patrick Bouffard". And Tour a Tour >>> doesn't seem to come up under Patrick at all, but you can get there by >>> searching for Gilles Chabenat. >>> >>> Clunky interface or not, I'm thrilled to see this stuff available >>> commercially. >>> >>> The iTunes site is http://www.apple.com/itunes/. >>> >>> As I mentioned, I'll try to get a "one-stop shopping" French trad >>> recordings page together on my website, frenchtradmusic.com, in the next >>> 2-3weeks. (I used to have an AMTA page there, but those links are defunct.) >>> >>> Mitch >>> >>> [email protected] writes: >>> >>> That is quite a collection! 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