iTunes is not available to people that live outside the US (the iTunes store is limited to each geographical region...)
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > 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! Is there a (relatively) easy way to > >>> search for this goldmine, or did you just check up on the artists > >>> familiar to you. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> [email protected]<hurdygurdy%[email protected]> > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > >>> > >>> The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found > at > >>> http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. 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