ANNIE EBREL

She wrote hundreds of texts in the evening in her farmhouse after her hard days of agricultural work. It is to this famous poetess that the singer Annie Ebrel has chosen to dedicate a show first, then an album entitled Lellig, perhaps the diminutive of Anjela.
To do this, Annie delved into the enormous work of the peasant/poet and retained about fifteen texts, most of them in Breton, devoted to the environment and life in the countryside. A visionary, Anjela had, sixty years before anyone else, warned of the evolution of the rural world, which according to her, was heading for disaster.
For her album Annie Ebrel was surrounded by Ronan Pellen on the cittern and cello, Clément Dallot on keyboards and Daravan Souvanna on bass guitar. R. Pellen has composed numerous melodies which he has set to Annie Ebrel's deep voice, giving the poetry a delicate halo that is both acoustic and contemporary.
Alongside A. Duval's poems, Annie chose to perform a traditional Marc'hig Kerne and a song written and composed by Gilles Servat Traoñ-An-Dour, named after the farm of Anjela. We also recognize Karantez-vro popularized by Véronique Autret and the group Gwalarn and more recently by Nolwenn Leroy.
For this magnificent album, A.Ebrel set himself a real challenge, that of picking a few nuggets from the gold mine that is Anjela Duval's work. Poetry written in free verse and therefore not easy to set to music. Annie Ebrel and her three musicians have accomplished this enormous task.
Here she sublimates the immense work of this humble peasant woman from North Brittany. A real success.

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