On peut dire: Ils sont les meilleurs...

 

Cabestan
Femmes de Marins

1997

Tracks:

01. Femmes de Marins - 3'00
02. An Titanic - 2'26
03. Le vieux de la vieille - 2'49
04. Ceux qu'on nommé les bancs - 2'40
05. War bont an Naoned - 4'14
06. L'adieu aux filles - 3'43
07. Etre Keraroz ha Kerguz (suite de Laridés) - 3'02
08. Le garçon marinier - 2'29
09. Ex-gréement - 3'23
10. La chasse au loup marin - 4'07
11. Belle étoile du Nord - 1'51
12. Nova Scotia farewell - 3'02
13. Le Reste-à-Terre - 3'55

 

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Un disque marquant paru en 1997, alors que Cabestan était un des acteurs du renouveau du chant de marins. C'est devenu un classique du genre.

Dans ce CD d'inspiration très bretonne qui mélange le traditionnel et les compositions ou adaptations, on trouve l'empreinte du Québec avec la participation de Bernard Simard dont la voix et le jeu de guitare transforment une chanson comme l'adieu aux filles en véritable bijou, et un grand classique comme le vieux de la vieille

Les autres musiciens qui ont participé à cet enregistrment sont Christian Desnos (voix, accordéon diatonique), Jean-Luc Creac'h (voix, guitare, basse), Arnaud Maisonneuve (voix, guitare), Thierry Moreau (voix, veuze, violon, violoncelle). Autres chansons de ce disque qui ont eu du succès et son souvent reprises, le reste à terre déjà chroniquée dans ce blog il y a quelques temps, et femmes de marins.

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Femmes de marins

Refrain:
On les app'lait femmes de chagrins
Du temps de leurs grand-mères
Aujourd'hui gronde la colère
Des femmes de marins

Il y'eut le temps des femmes soumises
Élevant leur famille, lonla,
Élevant leur famille (bis)
Qui attendaient, tristes, indécises
Le retour du navire, lonla,
Le retour du navire (bis)
Refrain

Puis vinrent les conserveries
Le travail à la chaîne, lonla,
Le travail à la chaîne (bis)
Il fallait pour gagner sa vie
Ne pas pleurer sa peine, lonla,
Ne pas pleurer sa peine (bis)
Refrain

Quand arrivèrent les machines
Et les temps de chômage, lonla,
Et les temps de chômage (bis)
Elles firent grève dans les usines
déjà femmes de courage, lonla,
Déjà femmes de courage (bis)
Refrain

Maint'nant quand les hommes sont en mer
Elles s'occupent des affaires, lonla,
Elles s'occupent des affaires (bis)
Pour affronter les C.R.S.
elles n'sont pas les dernières, lonla,
elles n'sont pas les dernières (bis)
 

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Folk Roots #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...

 

... I can do no more than say that Cabestan are by far the best sea songsters I have ever heard...

 

 un cabestan : )

MARITIME MUSIC OF BRITTANY 

The coast line of Brittany is equivalent to one fourth of that of all France, and Bretons have played a dominant role in European maritime history. At the end of the 15th century Brittany had a fleet of 1,800 to 2,000 ships and approximately 20,000 sailors (of a population of some one million). Fishing, shipping and service in the navy remain important occupations in Brittany. While the modernization of maritime industries has effectively eliminated the continuation of a work song tradition among sailors and fishermen, the transmission of song about the life related to the seas continue to be a part of Brittany's oral tradition on land. These relate maritime history--storms at sea, ship wrecks, naval battles, piracy--and speak of the hard life of fishermen and sailors and their long separation from family and loved ones.

An organization which has been active in researching and documenting maritime traditions of Brittany is Le Chasse-Maree. From collection with sailors and fishermen now in their 80s and 90s, young performers have been able to recreate maritime work songs for raising sails and anchors, turning capstans, rowing from ship to shore, or hauling boats into harbors. Also documented is the use of musical instruments on board ships--including fiddles, hurdy-gurdies, accordions and more rarely bagpipes--and the presence of Breton dances such as the laride and rond.

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May we say: simply the best...

 

Danny Spooner
The Great Leviathan
Songs of the Whaling Industry 

2006

Tracks:

01. The Whale Catchers (Trad.) - 1:35
02. The Weary Whaling Grounds (Trad.) - 2:36
03. The Coast of Peru (Trad.) - 2:35
04. Talcahuano Girls (Trad.) - 2:38
05. Rolling Down To Old Maui (Trad.) - 3:58
06. Pique La Baleine (Trad.) - 3:43
07. The Wounded Whale (Trad./Archie Fisher) - 4:40
08. The Whaleman's Lament (Trad.) - 2:22
09. The Waterwitch (Trad.) - 2:40
10. The Loss of Mahoney (Trad.) - 2:43
11. Davy Lowston (Trad.) - 3:17
12. Queensland Whalers (Harry Robertson) - 3:50
13. The Wee Pot Stove (Harry Robertson) - 4:49
14. Ballina Whalers (Harry Robertson) - 4:01
15. The Last Of The Great Whales (Andy Barnes) - 4:14

Personnel:

Danny Spooner - vocals, English concertina, guitar

Duncan Brown - vocals
Pam Connell - button accordion

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The Great Leviathan - Songs of the Whaling Industry

Released in 2006, Danny Spooner's The Great Leviathan - Songs of the Whaling Industry is this outstanding folk singers latest album. A wonderful collection of whaling songs, The Great Leviathan is perhaps the best argument against the evil that is whaling in modern times, and with this album Spooner firmly adds his booming voice to the calls to finally cease this appalling, tragic evil.

Danny Spooner's usual outstanding ability to tell a gripping story through his songs and his marvelous, sensitive renditions provide the vessel that carries this message to us so effectively.

These whaling songs span the early 17th to the 20th centuries and range from all over the anglophone world, with one French song also included. Most are traditional, but there are also some fine examples from the 20th century whaler Harry Robertson, and the album closes with a deeply sad song written in 1989 by Englishman Andy Barnes who has a stark warning for us all that it isn't only the whale that we endanger but indeed, ourselves. Danny Spooner poses, in the context of this song in his superb sleeve notes, "When will we realise that this little planet of ours has finite resources." We certainly seem to manage to pay plenty of lip service to this problem. But, as a society, are we really ever actually doing anything about it, or others equally pressing such as climate change? Of course not... Not happening. Unlikely to ever happen, at least, until it's far too late. And thus we are headed the same way as the great leviathan and all the countless other species whose extinction we are responsible for.

But Danny Spooner's The Great Leviathan has many other sub-texts as well. His stated purpose also was to acknowledge that there was a time when whaling contributed to the well-being of many people, and further to remember those tough whale men of old who, in their struggle to make a living, pitted themselves against an "adversary" who at least still had a chance. This, however, no longer applies. Modern whaling leaves the whale no chance of survival. Nor is there the slightest justification for whaling in modern times, for nothing that the whale provides cannot be produced synthetically or by other means, and far more efficiently at that. All that is left perhaps, is the greed, the lust for the taste of whale meat.

The Great Leviathan is undoubtedly the saddest of Danny Spooner's albums yet, in its subject matter and emotional context. But it is nonetheless also glorious, as any of his albums. Spooner's wonderful strong voice is a joy, as is his English concertina especially. He is also very ably assisted on some of the tracks by the additional vocals of Duncan Brown and Pam Connell's wonderful button accordion. Listening to this album, or indeed any of Danny Spooner's other albums, is a bit like watching a movie. But the pictures are so much better! Spooner, as is customary for him, provides a complete listening experience that is exceptional.

Danny Spooner's The Great Leviathan - Songs of the Whaling Industry is a hugely enjoyable gem of an album, utterly compelling and consistent, and completely enchanting. It is beyond essential in any collection of anglophone folk song, and particularly also any collection of songs associated with the sea.

© 2006 Rainlore's World of Music

 

 

 Danny Spooner is a traditional folk singer and social historian. Born in England, he left school at the age of 13 and worked as a salvage tug and trawler skipper before moving to Australia in 1962. He rapidly became involved in the Melbourne folk revival centred on Frank Traynor's folk club, and has been a major figure in the Australian folk scene ever since...

 

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may I say he is the Best :-) 

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Foo ray and up she rises...

 

THE FOO FOO BAND

2000

Tracks:

01. Three Score and Ten - 4:50
02. Yellow Gals - 1:29
03. Wild Goose - 3:09
04. Essequibo River - 3:11
05. Ranzo Ray - 1:34
06. We're All Bound to Go - 2:38
07. Dari Dari - 4:37
08. John Come Tell Us - 2:22
09. Lowlands - 3:44
10. Leaving of Liverpool - 4:48
11. Blood Red Roses - 2:37
12. Row Bullies Row - 4:04

Crew

Producer     Hans Visser
Gastmuzikant     Theo Schuurmans   
Gastmuzikant     Hendrik-Jan Teerink   
Gastmuzikant     Jos Koning   
Engineer     Hans Visser

Members

Bert Aalbers   accordeon, concertina, zang
Peter Koene   gitaar, mandoline, zang
Christel Van Noort   viool, zang
Baukje Asma   percussie, tin whistle, zang
Peter Van Rijsbergen   basgitaar, zang

Former members

Paul Rullmann   gitaar, mandoloncello
Christos Chaldoupis   darbuka, zang
Gilles Rullmann   viool, zang
Ineke Rullmann   bodhran, zang
Anja Nieuwkoop   percussie, zang

  

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 Foo Foo Band vertolkt zeeliederen en is daarom regelmatig te zien tijdens maritieme manifestaties, onder meer in het Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen en het Scheepvaartmuseum te Amsterdam. De band wordt opgericht door Bert Aalbers (1943-2007) uit Crackerhash. 

  

 
The Foo Foo Band performs sailors' songs and dances. A Foo Foo Band used to be an impromptu band, consisting of the ship's crew on the late 19th century sailing boats, and likewise this Foo Foo Band consists of members from bands of the Dutch folkrevival.

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foo-foo band

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Noun

foo-foo band (plural foo-foo bands)

1. (nautical) An impromptu musical band on late 19th C sailing vessels, made up from members of the ship's crew.^[1]
    

   We sighted the Jennie Harkness, obviously American, at daylight right ahead in the S.E. trades; at noon we were alongside her, and our Foo-Foo band played "Yankee-Doodle" as we passed her.^[2]

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 A photograph shows a Foo-Foo band on a British sailing ship in 1900 with members dressed in funny hats and playing an assortment of instruments including mouth organs and a squeeze box. 

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