Cordial is the tenth
studio album
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from
Québécois band
La Bottine Souriante
La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Canada. The band specializes in traditional French Canadian folk music, often with a modern twist.
Formed in 1976 by Yves Lambert, Andre Marchand, and Mario Forest, they have toured extensively throug ...
. It was released in 2001 through the band's own label,
Les Productions Mille-Pattes
Mille Pattes Records is a Canadian independent record label formed in Quebec. It distributes the music of two of the best known Trad bands of Quebec: La Bottine Souriante and Les Batinses.
Noted artists
*La Bottine Souriante
* Les Batinses
See ...
.
Like in the band's recent albums, contemporary instruments are added in to give the songs a modern sound. In this album, synthesizers, drums and mixing (track 16) are introduced. The first track is even mixed with traditional
arabic music
Arabic music or Arab music ( ar, الموسيقى العربية, al-mūsīqā al-ʿArabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres. Arabic countries have many rich and varied styles of music and also man ...
. All the songs and reels are still mostly traditional.
Personnel
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Régent Archambault: Double bass, electric bass, chorist voice
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Michel Bordeleau: Guitar, mandolin, fiddle, percussion, feet, soloist and chorist voice
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Pierre Bélisle: Piano, piano accordion, synthesizer, trumpet, hammond B-3
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André Brunet: Fiddle, guitar, percussion, chorist voice
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Robert Ellis: Bass trombone, percussion, chorist voice
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Jean Fréchette: Tenor saxophone, percussion, whistle, chorist voice
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Yves Lambert
Yves Lambert (4 June 1936 – 27 March 2021) was a French aerospace engineer. He was Director General of Eurocontrol from 1994 to 2000.
Biography
A graduate of the École Polytechnique (1956) and the École nationale de l'aviation civile (Frenc ...
: Accordions, harmonicas, spoons, soloist and chorist voice
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Jocelyn Lapointe: Trumpet, flugelhorn
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André Verreault: Trombon
Track listing
# Dans Paris y'a t'une brune (''The Brunette from Paris'') – 3:10
# La grondeuse (''The Grumbling Woman'') – 4:04
# Le démon sort de l'enfer (''The Devil Comes out of Hell'') – 4:32
# Set à Ubert (''Ubert's Set'') – 3:30
# En p'tit boggie (''Giddy Up'') – 2:44
# Aimé – 3:40
# Lune de miel (''Honeymoon'') – 3:44
# Suède Inn – 3:10
# J'ai fait une maîtresse (''I Got Me a Mistress'') – 2:36
# À bas les rideaux (''Out with the Lies'') – 3:51
# Les noces d'or (''Golden Wedding Reel'') – 2:15
# Viens-tu prendre une bière? (''Come Have a Beer!'') – 2:34
# Ma paillasse (''My Straw Mat'') – 3:02
# Chant de la luette (''The Warbler's Song'') – 2:54
# Reel de
Baie St-Paul (''Baie St-Paul's Reel'') – 5:37
# Et boucle La Bottine (''And "Loop" La Bottine'') – 7:22
2001 albums
La Bottine Souriante albums
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