Musique de Haute-Auvergne

  

Trio DCA
Musique de Haute-Auvergne
2002

Tracks:

1. leu n'ai cinc sos / Crève de sèt / Pòrta chopina
2. Sòm, sòm, minon, minauna / Suite de polkas piquées
3. D'où venez-vous Pierre / Bourrée du merle
4. Mazurka de "l'Anglard" / Mazurka du Cheix / Suite de polkas piquées
5. Dejos lo rosièr blanc
6. Valse Tyrolienne d'Auvergne
7. Polka à Alfred Mouret
8. Je te ferai danser boiteuse / La Vicoise / Bourrée de Brézou
9. La curé de la chapelle
10. Scottish à "Laurent-Eric" / Bourrée auvergnate
11. Valse modale / La Rosalie
12. La Caille / La Calha / Crosada d'Alpuech
13. Fridefont
14. Le 26 du mois d'avril
15. Bourrée du Papèt / Aqui per aquela posca
16. Quand ieu n'èri pichinèla / Si vous saviez jeune fille

Personnel:

Anne-Lise Foy - vocals, vielle a roue/hurdy gurdy

Hervé Capel - melodeon

Dominique Paris - cabrette/bagpipes

 

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This album showcases three musicians with respectable credentials in French folk music teaming up to produce an energetic recording featuring mostly dance tunes, with a few songs added to the mix for good measure. Almost entirely acoustic, performed by Dominique Paris (cabrette), Hervé Capel (chromatic accordion) and Anne-Lise Foy (vielle-à-roue, vocals), this music might surprise listeners new to French folk music with the power the players produce. The bulk of this album is dance music, after all, and there are few groups capable of generating more power than a group of inspired dancers and the musicians who drive them.

The dance tunes and sets include bourées, mazurkas, polkas and waltzes, allowing the three to demonstrate their ensemble talents, with the three instruments putting out intertwining melody lines one moment, then blending together to turn the power up a notch, like different parts of the same organism. Solo pieces offered by Dominique Paris ("Valse Tyrolienne d'Auvergne" and "Bourée du Papèt / Aqui per auela posca") and Hervé Capel ("Le curé de la chapelle") contain some lively and beautiful work, and are a great opportunity to hear the individual voices of their instruments. Anne-Lise Foy, besides illustrating how she has gained a reputation as one of the finest vielle-à-roue players in Europe, handles the vocal chores nicely on five tracks. Guest Denis Gasser adds some beautiful touches on acoustic guitar here and there. He's also credited with synthesizer, but his work on that instrument is extremely subtle, never drawing the music out of the traditional folk vein.

These players show that they have a deep respect and love for the traditional music of France, with very little "envelope pushing", but this is by no means a dry, scholarly document. They're having fun as well, and it's very apparent.

~ Larry Looney 

Les musiques de Haute Auvergne reconnues pour leur puissance, leur richesse, leur style et leur originalité, avaient depuis longtemps besoin d’être replacées dans une actualité incontestable, pour que les références du début du 20ème siècle cèdent le pas à des démarches créatives. La chose est faite et ce trio possède toutes les qualités requises pour redonner un engouement à ces musiques. Trio DCA : Une musique comme on l’a toujours attendue et trop souvent rêvé. 

~André Ricros

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