DAN AR BRAZ

After so many years, Dan felt the need to take a look back at his long career and he wanted above all to celebrate with a heartfelt tribute, this fabulous instrument, an instrument, as he likes to say, which allowed him to come out of his entrenchments and his fears, in order to get closer to everyone.

After so many collective and individual adventures, he presents us his twenty-fifth album with a pun on the title since it is the Breton dance that he celebrates here as much as the guitar. To do so, he has taken fourteen tracks from his immense repertoire, personal compositions but also three pieces that he has played hundreds of times alongside Alan Stivell, his stage companion during the seventies.

We thus rediscover Pop Plinn, which was the highlight of the Breton revival, the emblematic title of the concert at the Olympia 72. And also Ton Bale Pourled and Bal ha Dañs Plinn from the album E Dulenn released in 75. The album also features tracks from his early albums: Orgies Nocturnes and Les Forces du Mal (Douar Nevez), Menez Du, a frenzied rock gavotte (The Earth's Lament). The Heritage of the Celts years are also present with Call to the Dance, Evit Ar Barzh and especially the beautiful Left in Peace. Closer to us, Belong, Cornwall Attitude and La Trace du Souvenir (Celebration).

A new record, a new musical formation, but with musicians, some of whom have been accompanying him for years. Let's mention Patrick Boileau, David Er Porh, Patrick Péron, Jonathan Dour, Bagad Kemper... or the singer Clarisse Lavanant. Rather than making something new out of something old, Dan Ar Braz has chosen to dust off some of his many compositions in order to bring them back to life with all the experience he has acquired over the years.

A new success to be put to the credit of the most “Quimperois” of Breton artists.

Hent Glaz Productions CD DAB06