Denez Prigent

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Denez Prigent 因为看到封面上有Lisa Gerrard的名字，我毫不犹豫买下了这张CD，对于专辑的主人Denez Prigent我反倒并不熟悉。在PIZZA HUT拆开包装的时候，内页模糊的森林吸引住了我，Denez Prigent的声音一想起我就知道这张CD买给了自己一个惊喜－“We are leaves of the same tree/We are all moved by the same wind.” 试听请点击： 漂泊的耳朵 Good Breton music was, until the late 80s at least, a feature of my corner of town, since that part of the country is served by trains from Montparnasse and some of the streets around the large southern Paris station acquired Breton "settlers", bars, shops and clubs. Apart from the many crêperies still to be found today, most of that has disappeared in less than two decades. All honour, then, to Denez Prigent, a Breton musician from northern Finistère who first learnt a traditional and difficult a capella narrative style, known as gwerzioù, from his grandmother as a boy in the 1960s and has gone on to captivate people in Paris, the nation and recently, other parts of Europe, with some increasingly original and wonderful albums. Like his internationally renowned compatriot Alan Stivell (Fr., Eng. and Breton), Denez believes that Breton musical traditions are best upheld and maintained by reviving them with a leap across barriers and venturing into some bold juxtapositions and harmonies of style. His latest CD, Sarac'h' (Oct 2003, Barclay, Amazon Fr.), is proof that "he who dares -- sometimes -- wins". And, surprise, it's part of my ongoing exploration of the voices of women too. In this instance, those of Lisa Gerrard ('Immortal Memory' and ex-Dead Can Dance), Gaelic stunner Karen Matheson ... and Bulgaria's Yanka Rupkina as well as fellow Breton Louise Ebrei. This mixture works. Admirably and beautifully. And so does Prigent's call on musicians as diverse as Nabil Khalidi from Morocco, with his oud, or lute, Latif Khan playing Indian tabla drums and Marcel Aubé on both the guitar-like north African gembri and the Chinese violin in the accompaniments, alongside more customary instruments and some carefully dosed electronica. The recording is of spectacularly high quality and the CD's lavish presentation in little book form original. Some of the songs are on traditional, story-telling bardic themes, with unusual excursions -- 'La Gwerz de Kiev' on famine in Ukraine, 'Geotenn ar marz' on genetically modified crops -- and I've no idea what others are about, since not all the lyrics are translated and I don't understand Breton. In an interview I've just found at M La Music (Fr.), Denez explains: "...I only translated what can be translated, because not everything is, like rhyme and humour. It's pretty difficult to translate a gwerz into French." Not that it matters. Music is a language all its own. Though one French reviewer comments that if you have only just one album of Breton music, make it 'Sarac'h', I don't hear that myself. Breton it may be in origin and tradition, but the only possible pigeon-hole for this CD is "world music". It's that broad in its scope. "Sarac'h" apparently means the rustling of the breeze in leaves. And there's a Ridley Scott connection. Prigent features on the soundtrack of 'Black Hawk Down', while we have Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer to thank for the score to 'Gladiator'. ENO 发表于 2004-08-03 | 引用Trackback(0) | 编辑 You have left the bright impression on me here, please continue keeping it ：） 黑暗的影者 ( kevinling.blogbus.com/ ) 发表于 2004-08-03 03:30