Piano

  

Didier Squiban

Rozbras

12 Images Pour Piano

2001

Tracks:

1. Image 1     5:53   

2. Image 2     2:51   

3. Image 3     3:42   

4. Image 4     2:15   

5. Image 5     5:18   

6. Image 6     6:29   

7. Image 7     2:36   

8. Image 8     4:32   

9. Image 9     3:25   

10. Image 10     6:01   

11. Image 11     3:28   

12. Image 12     5:08   

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Didier Squiban : piano, compositions et arrangements

 

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"Dernier volet d'une magnifique trilogie, Rozbras emprunte son titre à un abri maritime entre Riec-sur-Belon et Pont-Aven. Ce barde virtuose livre une suite de douze petites pièces entre jazz et classique contemporain. Un album incontournable, zen comme le vol d'une mouette. 20 sur 20." P.D. / L'EXPRESS

   

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Piano

  

Didier Squiban
Porz Gwenn

(18 variations pour piano)
1999

Tracks:

1. Tal ar mor (Bord de mer)
2. Kastellig (Petit château)
3. Forzh penaoz
4. Diskan
5. Petit air marin
6. Cantique Breton
7. Marche
8. Airs de gavotte
9. Nominoë
10. Choral
11. An dro de pont Kalleg
12. Ar paotr yaouank kozh
13. Sur la route de Saint-Claude
14. Ridée de Loperhet
15. Rond de Molène
16. Ronds d'Iroise
17. Ar c'hoadig
18. Porz Gwenn (Port blanc)

Didier Squiban: piano, compositions et arrangements

  

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"Aucune réserve pour le voyage que nous offre Didier Squiban, de bout en bout enthousiasmant. Il explique son travail dans le très beau livret (les photographies sont signées Michel Thersiquel) qui accompagne l'album. On le lit, on l'écoute, on songe à Bach, à Keith Jarrett. On prend la mer dans le sillage d'un piano marin." A.M. PAQUOTTE / ffff TELERAMA

"Ces variations pour piano sont d'une beauté pénétrante comme le tranchant d'un cristal de roche. Oublions les références aux pianistes romantiques et imaginons plutôt un Keith Jarrett apaisé, bercé par les vagues de la mer la plus vivante du monde : c'est la Bretagne unique, celle d'un tempérament sans concession." J. DELLI FIORI / ****JAZZMAN

"Composées ou improvisées, ces pièces déclinent un thème qui sera présenté en toute fin de disque, à la beauté sans fioritures. Si l'influence traditionnelle est plus ou moins appuyée, la mélancolie est toujours présente tout au long de ce voyage en Bretagne dont on aurait tort de ne pas vouloir être." D. SANSON / CLASSICA

  

 Didier Squiban's piano compositions are harmoniously old-fashioned, melodically pleasing, rythmically stimulating. Recorded in a chapel, the sound quality is outstandingly clear and bright in all tonal ranges. Mr. Squiban is an accomplished technician who plays his own compositions with the insight and feeling to produce a thoroughly satisfying artistic entertainment. In this day of raucous pop-music, a sound which seems a bit out of date puts to shame the current simple minded caterwauling passing itself off as music. Didier Squiban deserves to be popular.

By Dan Heines (Milan, Italy)

  

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Voice & Piano

     

Yann-Fañch Kemener

Didier Squiban

Île - Exil
1996

Tracks:

   1. Marie Louison
   2. Le chant des métamorphoses
   3. Gousperoù ar raned / Ar rannoù
   4. Hanter dro: Duhont 'ar ar Mane
   5. Evnig bihan
   6. Soubenn al laezh
   7. Ar seizh avel
   8. An oed a driwerc'h vle
   9. Drouk-kinnig neumenoioù
  10. Résurgence - Du côté de l'enfance
  11. Gavotenn: Ar martolod yaouank (Appel; Gavotte)
  12. Je te chante mon pays
  13. Plach'ig eusa
  14. Skolvan
  15. Aberioù
  16. Gwerz ker is
  17. Kontadenn (récit des pêcheurs)

Personnel:

Yann-Fañch Kemener: chant
Didier Squiban: piano, arrangements
Yann Paranthoen: images sonores

 

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"C'est l'heure de la maturité pour le duo formé par le chanteur breton à la douce voix haute, Yann-Fañch Kemener, et le pianiste forgé au classique et au jazz, Didier Squiban." E. AZOULAY / ffff TELERAMA

"Le piano de Didier Squiban ouvre de nouveaux horizons sonores en mettant la voix de Yann-Fanch Kemener en valeur." J.Y. HINAULT / OUEST-FRANCE

"Un superbe hommage à la Bretagne. Et à son peuple." P. MORVAN / LE PEUPLE BRETON

"Ile-Exil is more than just a compact disc of music. Both Yann-Fanch Kemener and Didier Squiban are at their very best." L. KUTER / BRO NEVE

Ile-Exil (1996) est une invitation au voyage. A la musique et au chant, se mêlent un univers sonore que l'on doit à Yann Paranthoën. Les deux compères véhiculent, au cours de ce voyage, une émotion grandissante. Ce disque comporte également quelques gwerzioù dansées. Le champ rythmé est modifié pour s'adapter aux règles de danse.

 

© Michel Thersiquel

 

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Piano (16)

 

Didier Squiban
Molène
1997

Tracks:

1. Suite Nr. 1 "Tri Men": 1. ArBaradoz 4:25
2. Suite Nr. 1 "Tri Men": 2. AnAlac'h 1:13
3. Suite Nr. 1 "Tri Men": 3. Suite d'An Dro du Pays Vannetais 3:59
4. Suite Nr. 1 "Tri Men": 4. Ledenez 3:26
5. Suite Nr. 1 "Tri Men": 5. Kost Ar C'hoat 5:05
6. Suite Nr. 1 "Tri Men": 6. Tri Men 4:33
7. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 1. Iroise 3:17
8. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 2. Suite de Gavottes des Montagnes 3:02
9. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 3. AnSkoliater 2:26
10. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 4. Trugerekat Men Dous 3:02
11. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 5. Ker Eon 3:39
12. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 6. Kerzhadenn-Pedenn 4:11
13. Suite Nr. 2 "Ker Eon": 7. Variations Sur Laridé à 6 Temps 4:45
14. Suite Nr. 3 "Bannec": 1. Marche des Conscrits du Faouët     4:08
15. Suite Nr. 3 "Bannec": 2. Enez Eusa     5:05
16. Suite Nr. 3 "Bannec": 3. Me Zo Ganet E Kreiz Ar Mor 3:49
17. Suite Nr. 3 "Bannec": 4. An Oed a Driverc'h Vle 3:06
18. Suite Nr. 3 "Bannec": 5. Bannec 2:17

  

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“Une réalisation exceptionnelle et uniquement pianistique sur fond de musique raditionnelle. Un disque ou même les silences font du bruit et ne sont jamais les mêmes.”
(J.-J. Boiron, Musique Bretonne)

Didier Squiban (born 23 September 1959 in Saint-Renan (Finistère)) is a French pianist and composer.

His musical work is a combination of traditional Breton music, jazz improvisation and classical romanticism and has added the piano to the repertoire of modern Breton music.

He has been influenced by Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Parker and Bill Evans as well as Debussy, Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Schönberg and Glenn Gould. In 1993, he worked as the accompanying pianist for the Breton singer Yann-Fañch Kemener in the acclaimed live show Héritage des Celtes and thereby got closer in touch with the music of his home region Brittany. In 1997, on the island of his ancestors, Molène, he recorded his first Breton solo piano album: "Molène".

 

  

 Outstanding pianist, arranger and composer, Didier Squiban is equally renowned as the director of his jazz orchestra. His musical work is the happy combination of traditional Breton music, jazz improvisation and classical romanticism. He reveals in this alchemy an exceptional talent.

    He begins the piano in 1959 with a classical background at the Brest Conservatoire of Music. As he discovers Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, he'll turn his music to jazz. A few years after, he'll go into Breton music, a music that surrounded him from 1987 to 1993 through concerts in common with Manu Lannhuel, Kristen Noguès...

    Since 1994, as he takes part to the 'Heritage des Celtes' and performs regularly with Yann-Fañch Kemener, he'll go deeper into Breton music and create his own show: 'Brest 96' with 'An Tour Tan'.

    In 1997 is produced his first solo album, 'Molène' with a huge welcome from the audience (Breton music as well as jazz or classical music lovers). Two years later, comes the second one 'Porz gwenn', in February 2000, his live album, recorded during the 1999 Festival de Lorient concert. And finally, the 'Symphonie Bretagne' where he's joined by the Bretagne Orchestra directed by Didier Benetti, the Contrepoint choir, Josik Allot and his bombard, Bernard le Dréau and René Goaer with their saxes, Alain Trévarin and his accordion and Jean Chevalier with his drums. An album orchestrated by Pierre-Yves Moign.

    The 'Rozbras'album, a new step into Dider's classical-jazzy-celtic musical world. Like 'Molène' and 'Porz gwenn', together with the CD comes a booklet with beautiful pictures by Michel Thersiquel, one of Brittany's most famous photographers.

The 'Ballades' album is a musical voyage along the Globe. From Marrakech or Istambul to Asia (where Didier had an important tour in 2002) and back to Scotland, Ireland and Brittany.

In the latest album, 'Symphonie Iroise', Didier meets once again the Orchestre de Bretagne directed by Alain Altinoglu and also his usual crew : Bernard Le Dréau playing saxophones, Alain Trévarin for accordeon, Jean Chevalier with the drums, Erwan Keravec the piper and Manu Lann Huel the singer.

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Voices (3)

  

Yann-Fañch Kemener
Didier Squiban
Enez Eusa
1995
 
Tracks:

1. Plac'hig eusa
2. Gwerz Ker Ys
3. Primaozadenn
4. Me 'zo ganet e-kreiz ar mor
5. Marivonig an Dourduff
6. Primaozadenn war Plac'hig eusa
7. Ar Voraerion
8. Gwerz Penmarc'h
9. Primaozadenn war ar voraerion
10. Tri Martolod
11. Plac'hig eusa

Personnel:

Yann-Fañch Kemener: chant
Didier Squiban: piano

 

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As one of the best traditional singers today, Yann-Fañch Kemener also is one of the most famous. He established himself as a true musical ethnology specialist towards 'Kan ha diskan' and 'gwerz' traditions and took part in a very effective way to the singing revival in Brittany, its collection and its passing down. His singing is deeply rooted in a family tradition that he developped through many albums in which he recorded some of the songs he grew up with.

    He recorded his first L.P. at the age of 20 and will soon complete the largest discography of singing tradition in Brittany with five other L.P.s between 1977 and 1982 (Chants Profonds de Bretagne 1,2,3,4 and Kan Ha Diskan), all of them are unavailable of course. The oldest available C.D. is a rerecording of his 'Gwerzioù and sonioù', where he sings beautiful Breton laments.

    Beside his solo singing, he will also emerge on an other scene, the traditional folk one, where he adds his voice to the excellent musicians surrounding him in Barzaz. 

 

  This band will soon bring something very new to Breton music with new kinds of arrangements and the early presence of the pragramming playing together with Jean-Michel veillon's transverse wooden flute, Gilles Le Bigot's guitar, Alain Genty's bass guitar or Hopi Hopkins' bodhran , didgeridu...

    He also takes part to Skolvan's first two albums and to a "son et lumière" show together with Kristen Noguès, Jean-Louis Le Vallégant and pianist Didier Squiban.

 

  

 This is the beginning of a strong collaboration as Didier and Yann-Fañch will collaborate to offer a few masterpieces to Breton music.The first one is Brest 96, the official anthem to Brest 96 festival in which they are accompanied by a plethora of excellent musicians, and soon, as a duo, they really create a new style that nobody experienced before, a kind of chamber traditional singing expressed by three albums : Enez-Eusa, Île-Exil and Kimiad.

    He still continues to perform in solo or in duo for kan ha diskan together with Erik Marchand, Annie Ebrel, Valentine Colleter, Patrick Marie, Ifig Troadeg, Marcel Guilloux and recorded an album completely dedicated to this style of singing in which he invited all these friends.

    He actually sings together with Jean-François Corneloup Trio, a jazz band and they just received a great response from the audience during their concert at La Vilette, held on May the 2nd 2000.

    Yann-Fañch also took part to Dan Ar Braz' Heritage of the Celts and Alain Genty's latest album and presented a brand new edition book on the 'Barzaz Breiz' with a C.D. in which he's accompanied by the 'Maîtrise de Bretagne'.

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