Yann-Fanch Kemener – Roudennou / Traces – 2CD

This recording, “a tribute to Breton poetry”, marks forty-five years of a rich and intensive career of explorations, of encounters and of creativity. It started with what we commonly call “folk poetry", transmitted orally, worn and weathered by time, chewed on and breathed out by the lips of peasants, labourers, pilgrims and beggars. Then came the time when writers turned their attention to their own time, opening up the horizons of what is possible, lyrical, sarcastic — mystical, even. Not a nostalgic look, but look fulfilled in the memory of these much-loved faces and voices, of the rhythms and ideals carried by their words and their music.

Track Listing:
CD1:
1. An tad mager - 2:44   2. Melani vihan - 7:12   3. Langues prolétaires - 2:43   4. Marc'hadour rouan - 4:23   5. Marais de yeun elez - 2:13   6. J'ai dit - 0:43   7. An traezhour.- 1:01   8. Dahouarn ma zad - 1:15   9. Un secret de polichinelle - 3:20   10. Barzh an turki - 3:44   11. Dianvezour - 2:04   12. Eil bugaleaj - 2:05   13. Pe œn me bihan, bihan - 5:47   14. Herri saoudua - 1:45   15. Savet d'ur verc'h yaouank - 5:33   16. Milc'hwid ar serr-noz - 2:271
CD2:
1. Me zo ganet e kreiz ar mor - 5:17   2. Ar voraerion - 5:06   3. Jezus krœdur (Noël vannetais) - 4:53   4. Ma c'halon 'zo e breizh-izel - 5:16   5. Marins - 2:10   6. Ar marc'hataer yaouank - 4:04   7. Lettre à mon père - 4:10   8. Ar feuntenn zu - 1:57   9. Le passage - 1:09   10. L'étranger - 1:05   11. L'oranger de kerlou - 4:36   12. Bénédiction de la amrche - 2:15   13. Ar juis - 5:59   14. Pe œn er park i labourat - 4:59   15. E-tal ar groaz - 2:49

Personnel:
Yann-Fanch Kemener (vocals, text) , Erwann Toble (accordion on 1:1,3,7, on 2:3,13-15) , Heikki Bourgault (guitar on 1:1-3,6,10,11,13,15,16, on2:1-4,11,14,15) , Anne Auffret (harp, vocal on 1:8 on 2:2,7,9,10) , Achille Grimaud (vocal on 2:1-3) , Eric Menneteau (vocal on 1:4,13-16,on 2:1,2,4,5,11) , Aldo Ripoche (cello on 1:9,10,12, on 2:8,12)