Tammles

Tammles ::: Tammles
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Alain Pennec: accordeon, cornemuses, chant
Marc Jacquier: guitare, bouzouki, chant
Philippe Janvier: bombardes, flutes, chant
Jean-Yves Martial: violon, bouzouki, chant
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01. Scottish du père Rouxel/Scottish à Jacquot
02. D’ou viens-tu pochard d’ivrogne?
03. Mélodie vannetaise/Marche pourled
04. Hantertdroïde
05. Bilbolo
06. Dans plinn
07. Gavottes/Sweet gavotte/Les lavandiéres
08. Entre la riviére et le bois
09. Ridées à six temps
10. Le Fond de l’art effraie
11. An dro
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Escalibur BUR 810
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#27 • September 1985
Melodeon wiz, Alain Pennec, who is also a mean turn on the Northumbrian pipes, came over some years back with guitarist and bouzouki man Marc Jacquier, dit Gegene, and impressed those who saw them. The group is now a quartet, with the addition of Philippe Janvier on bombardes and flute and Jean-Yves Martial on fiddle and bouzouki.
Tammles come from the non-Breton speaking, or gallo, regions of Brittany and their music has a distinctly different sound to the Breton norm - even when the bombardes are in full flight. The sound of the independent Breton deterrent is more muted here, blending well with the other instruments as they work jauntily through tunes and dances which include scottisches, a Vannes melody, marches, hanter-dros, an dros, gavottes and ridees.
Can there be room for songs? There certainly is, and Tammles really sound as though they are having fun on these tracks. There's not a duffer among then and the production is clean and precise, if a little laid-back (not an uncommon fault with this label, which has since sold out lo someone else).
They're top of the tree in Brittany at the moment
Mick Tems
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Tammles
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Tammles ::: Embarquement immediat
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Alain Pennec: accordéon, cornemuses, bombarde, flute, synthé, chant
Marc Jacquier: guitare, synthé, chant
Philippe Janvier: bombardes, sax alto, chant
Jean-Yves Martial: violon, bouzouki, chant
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01. Marche des tailleurs de pierre
02. Gavottes
03. Trios matelots du port de Brest
04. Déridez-vous en 8 temps - ridées
05. Les cercliers
06. Le chemin du village - an dro/hanter dro
07. A Limerzel - tour
08. Ballad du petit people
09. Embarquement immediate
10. Il reste encore à vendre - ridées à 6 temps
11. Poule qui chante
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1985 • Escalibur BUR 813
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#35 • May 1986
Tammles' emergence as a force to be reckoned with has been slow but steady, from the days back in the 1970s when multi-instrumentalis Alain Pennec and guitarist Marc Jacquier began using the name, and Embarquement Immediat is an album they can be proud off. Tammles work in the non-Breton speaking field, and their songs are as strong as their runes; they too, are not afraid to mix traditional and technology, Philippe Janvier switching from bombarde to alto sax with equal and interesting effect and Jean-Yves Martial putting swing and subtlety into the fiddle. The repetitive nature of Breton melody gives Tammles the springboard for their hypnotic effect; this is an album for all those who avoid Celtic music of the jig/reel/andro school, for it injects colour and variety into what is already an inspired choice of material. Like a good whisky (or lambic!) it's the result of years of maturing, and those who get hold of fit will savour fit for a long time to come. The title track certainly goes with me to my desert Island.
Mick Tems
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Embarquement immediat
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Cabestan

Cabestan ::: Chants de marins traditionnels
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Christian Desnos : accordéon diatonique, harmonica, chant
Michel Colleu: concertina, vielle, chant
Benoît Chantran: violon, chant
Bernard Subert : veuze, flûte, clarinette, bombarde, chant
Arnaud Maisonneuve: guitare, chant
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01 Le 31 du mois d'aout
02 Le capitaine de Saint Malo
03 La femme du president/A du le taire
04 Quand nous partîmes de Toulon
05 Naviguant dans le port de Nantes
06 Gwerz ar vezhinerien
07 Le gabier de Terre-Neuve
08 Good bye farewell
09 Hourra les filles à cinq deniers
10 À la Rochelle est arrivé
11 An tri kachimari
12 Suite de chants de travail
13 La Carméline
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1984 • Le Chasse-Marée SCM006 • artwork by François Bourgeon!!!

Chants de marins traditionnels
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Cabestan ::: Il y a dix marins sur mer...
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Christian Desnos : accordéon diatonique, chant
Michel Colleu: concertina, vielle, chant
John Wright: violon, guimbarde, chant
Bernard Subert : clarinette, bombarde, chant
Arnaud Maisonneuve: guitare, bouzouki, chant
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01 Il y a 10 marins sur mer
02 Brassons bien partout carré
03 South Australia
04 Polkas de Saint-Carreuc
05 Passant la rue Saint-Honoré
06 Faut avoir du courage
07 Gwerz an aber ac'h
08 Le départ de l'île d'Yeu
09 Ronds de Ploeuc
10 La Goélette de Saint-Martin-de-Ré
11 John Kanaka
12 En anglezed boneteu ru
13 Il y a dix marins sur mer
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Le Chasse-Marée SCM009

Il y a dix marins sur mer...
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#47 • May 1987
Right from their first record this group has been outstanding in their presentation of French and Breton shanties and sea songs. The group, formed from a co-operative known as Chasse-Maree, consisted at the time of Arnaud Maissonneuve, Benoit Chantran, Bernard Subert, Christian Desnos and the group's leader and driving force, Michel Colleu, who has collected the majority of the material used - songs and tunes from the rich maritime heritage extant around the coast of Britanny. Fiddle, flute, concertina and guitar along with a melodeon (in this case, Christian uses an almost straight tuning to great effect) are often used as accompaniment, and all are excellent musicians as well as fine singers. Bombardes and hurdy-gurdies are unlikely instruments to hear
backing sea songs, but in the hands of the French they blend perfectly with their style of singing - and what a style! Whatever Cabestan do, the maxim seems to be that effort and a feeling for the material are essential. Their precision and spirited renderings make them a joyful listening experience, even if you can’t understand French, because you can feel the 'working power' of the songs.
The French, unlike the English, do not have as great a store of shanties, but they make up for this with a fine collection of shore based songs. On the second of these two albums these are supplemented from other sources. John Wright replaces Benoit Chantran, and I suppose after some 16 years of self-exile ha has earned the right to be called French. He brings to the group the Jews harp as well as his own Fiddle talents, and on the former he is an acknowledged authority. In addition, he has taught the lads choruses to John Kanaka and South Australia, and credible versions are turned in of both. It is nice to hear the Cape Cod Girls variant of the latter, although John seems at times hesitant with his lead, but fit does not unduly detract from the song, whereas John Kanaka for the first time to my knowledge, is attempted with hitches! I wonder what Stan Hugill will think of the effort; fit is certainly strange, but seems to grow on you.
I particularly liked what I will call the Breton finger dance song, here called En Anglezed Boneteu Ru, loosely translated to become The Good Angel's Bonnet. The co-ordination of the medley where the melodeon slips keys and slides, is really done to perfection and leads into the song so well. The Breton group, Truzerion, make a speciality of this type of song, often sung in dialects no longer in current use, where the dancers traditionally moved in a circle with a delicate linking of little fingers - or sometimes arms round shoulders, because these dances last for an hour.
I can do no more than say that Cabestan are by far the best sea songsters I have ever heard. Both these records come aver well, as if they vere live recordings, the technical side is excellent, and the
words are included in both cases. Do yourselves a favour and get both, and if slip not satisfied, then look for the earlier anthology series when the group was much larger
Chris Roche