''Enfin Réunis'' (''Finally Reunited'') is the name of the fifth album by
Québécois néo-trad
Néo-trad is a musical style from Quebec that arose around the turn of the 21st century. It can be considered a subgenre of '' Québécois'' Folk music. The term combines the Greek prefix ''neo'', meaning ''new'', and the contraction of the word ...
band
Les Cowboys Fringants
Les Cowboys Fringants are a Quebec folk rock music group formed in 1995 in Repentigny, Quebec. The French word ''fringant'' can be translated as "dashing", or "frisky".
They perform '' Québécois'' néo-trad music (modernized Quebec folk musi ...
. It's a double album (2 CD). This album is actually the first two albums by Les Cowboys Fringants ''
12 grandes chansons'' and ''
Sur mon canapé''. It was created due to high demand as the two first albums were ''desirable object to hard core fans''
..'despite the musical errors, simple songs, and the "cheapo" side of recordings''.
[Booklet]
The CD cover show pictures of both albums with their respective title with the note: '' ''Enfin Reunis'' les deux premiers disques broche a foin'' - finally united the sloppy first two albums
The first album ''12 grandes chansons'' picture looks like a bad black and white photocopy and has the format of a cassette tape, since it was originally released on tape cassette only. ''We decided to record a tape so our friends would have a souvenir''.
The inside booklet goes on for 13 pages on the history of the band and the two albums. Interesting note the recording of the first album was done for about $800. A quote from Karl Tremblay stating: ''In those days it didn't take long to create a song. We did not bother too much, even if it did not rime we didn't care.'' On ''Sur mon canapé'' J-F Pauzé states ''We did not practice the songs enough before getting in the studio. It gave a special album with numerous errors and a "botched" aspect. The songs were good but it sounded sloppy.
Track listing
12 grandes chansons
#Les routes du bonheur - 3:36
#Awikatchikaën - 2:50
#Evangéline - 3:40
# - 3:20
#L'agacepésie - 3:16
#Dieudonné Rastapopoulos - 3:52
#Platsburg - 3:39
#Willie Jos Hachey - 2:34
#Gaétane - 4:38
#Repentigny-by-the-sea - 2:39
# - 3:21
#Impala blues - 4:46
Sur mon canapé
#Marcel Galarneau (Tremblay, Pauzé) - 2:43
#Le plombier (Pauzé, Tremblay, Lebeau) - 3:06
#Spécial #6 (Tremblay, Pauzé) - 3:51
#Maurice au bistro (Pauzé, Lépine) - 3:48
#Goldie (Lebeau) - 3:30
#Denise Martinez (Pauzé, Lebeau) - 3:07
#Mon pays (reel des Aristocrates) (Pauzé, Lépine) - 4:49
#Le quai de Berthier (Lebeau, Pauzé, Tremblay) - 4:57
#Grosse femme (Pauzé, Caza) - 3:15
#La gosse à Comeau (Pauzé) - 5:19
#La culbute (Pauzé, Lebeau) - 2:39
#Banlieue (Pauzé) - 4:42
Band members
* Karl Tremblay - Lead
vocals
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, wrong notes,
['wrong notes' actually in booklet] and animal noises
* J-F Pauzé -
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
s,
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...
* Marie-Annick Lépine -
Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...
,
Accordion,
Mandolin,
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...
* Jérome Dupras -
bass, vocals
* Dominique Lebeau -
drums, "Blue thing", and dance
Additional credits
Enfin Réunis
* Sing, played, more or less arranged, produced by Les Cowboys Fringants
* Official "Guest Star": Vincent Caza (acoustic guitar on "Grosse Femme")
* Les productions Louboy International
* Distribution Exclusive: DEP
12 grandes chansons
* Sound and mixing: Marc-André Lepage (studio Economik), July 1997
* Album cover infographics: Alex Bex for Démodisk
* Lyrics: Karl Tremblay and J-F Pauzé
* Music: J-F Pauzé
Sur mon canapé
* Sound and mixing: Dominic Despins (studio Economik), November 1998
* Photos: J-F Pauzé and Jessica Violette
* Infographics: Bob Fish
Notes
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Les Cowboys Fringants albums
2001 compilation albums