Red Cardell is a
Breton
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** Breton people
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** Breton (horse), a breed
**Ga ...
rock
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* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
band
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that mixes
Breton music Since the early 1970s, Brittany has experienced a tremendous revival of its folk music. Along with flourishing traditional forms such as the bombard- biniou pair and fest-noz ensembles incorporating other additional instruments, it has also branched ...
with rock, folk, blues, world music and
chanson réaliste ''Chanson réaliste'' (, ''realist song'') refers to a style of music performed in France primarily from the 1880s until the end of World War II.Sweeney, Regina M. (2001). ''Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music During the G ...
.
The group was formed in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Riou (vocals, guitars), Jean-Michel Moal (accordion) and Ian Proërer (drums). With the departure of the latter in 2001, Manu Masko became the drummer. He left in 2015.
In 2011, the band added Mathieu Péquériau (harmonica, washboard) as a new member, some months before Jean-Michel Moal had to take a break from the group due to health problems. He returned in 2015.
From 2012 to 2015, the band was joined on stage by two additional musicians : Ronan Le Bars (bagpipes, whistles), (
Dan Ar Braz
Dan Ar Braz (; born Daniel Le Bras on 15 January 1949 in Quimper) is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. Leading guitarist in Celtic music, Dan Ar Braz has recorded as a solo ...
/
Héritage des Celtes) and Pierre Stéphan (fiddle), and had a joint show with
Bagad Kemper. During that same time period, the five band members were involved in
The Celtic Social Club
The Celtic Social Club is a musical band formed in 2013 and led by Manu Masko.
The band is formed by a group of Bretons and Scots musicians, members of The Silencers, Red Cardell and Ronan Le Bars Group with guests related to the world Celt ...
, alongside
Jimme O'Neill
Jimme O'Neill is a Scottish singer and guitarist who has been the lead singer of Scottish rock band The Silencers since 1984. Having started his musical career with Cha Burns in Fingerprintz in the new wave music scene, they joined Martin Hanlin ...
, leader of (
The Silencers
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Plot summary
When a female agent in Mexico is killed before Helm can complete his mission to extract her, he f ...
) and bassman Richard Puaud.
In December 2015, Jean-Pierre Riou and Jean-Michel Moal, the 1992 co-founders of the group, joined forces again after four years of separation. In this new collective, they are accompanied by the multi-instrumentalist Pierre Sangra, partner of the band since the album ''Naître'', and drummer Hibu Corbel.
They are considered by music critics to be one of the best Breton bands of this time, in the footsteps of
Alan Stivell and
Dan Ar Braz
Dan Ar Braz (; born Daniel Le Bras on 15 January 1949 in Quimper) is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. Leading guitarist in Celtic music, Dan Ar Braz has recorded as a solo ...
, precursors of the Celtic wave of the seventies, having learned to combine rock and contemporary music with traditional music.
Biography
Red Cardell, one of the most famous bands from
Brittany
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, (the
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of
Celtic identity in north-western France), is essentially a live band. Formed in
Quimper
Quimper (, ; br, Kemper ; la, Civitas Aquilonia or ) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.
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Quimper is the prefecture (capital) of the Finistère department.
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The ...
in 1992, since then has recorded sixteen albums including five live and played at nearly two thousand concerts all over Europe and North America, including famous stages in France such as:
Vieilles Charrues Festival The Vieilles Charrues Festival (french: Festival des Vieilles Charrues, ; br, Gouel an Erer Kozh, ; literally: Old Ploughs Festival) is held every year in mid-July in the city of Carhaix, located in western Brittany, France.
This festival is the ...
,
Eurockéennes
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,
Les Francofolies de La Rochelle
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Number of tho ...
,
Printemps de Bourges
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History
The festival was created in 1977 (by , , and ). With its span of 35 years ...
,
Festival Interceltique de Lorient
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The (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France. It was founded in 1971 by .
This annual festival takes ...
,
Le Zénith Nantes Métropole and
Paris-Bercy Arena. They also played in
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, Finland, Germany, Belgium,
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, Switzerland,
Czech Republic
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,
Slovakia
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, Spain, Italy,
Cyprus
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,
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, United States and Canada.
Unclassifiable, their music is mainly a mix of
Breton
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*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
** Breton people
** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Ga ...
music and also of
Slavic,
Latin
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or
berber music with
blues
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,
rock
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* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
,
folk
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*People
* Folklore
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*** Folk rock
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* Folk Plus or Fol ...
,
punk
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and French realistic song and even more recently cheered up with
electro and
hip hop elements. The lyrics are inspired by the style of writing of poets and authors like
Jacques Brel
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,
Léo Ferré
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,
Boris Vian
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or
Jacques Prévert
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. It is these rich influences that follows the specific Jean-Pierre Riou poetic, turned to melancholy. They define themselves as a popular music band open to the world.
Besides their collaboration with French, Breton, Berber and Ukrainian musicians, they also have performed with British or American musicians, either on records or live. These artists include: Jimme O'Neill (
The Silencers
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Plot summary
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), Dr Das(
Asian Dub Foundation
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),
Dave Pegg
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(
Fairport Convention
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,
Jethro Tull),
Tanya Morgan, I.C. Will, Juan Sebastian Larobina and
Winston McAnuff
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McAnuff was born in Manchester Parish, JamaicaCampbell-Livingston, Cecelia (2013)A New Day fo ...
.
As an independent rock band from their beginnings, Red Cardell released their first album ''Rouge'' in 1993, followed by a nonstop tour for several years, sharing the stage with
Doctor Feelgood,
The Fleshtones
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History 1976–1979
The Fleshtones were formed in 1976 in Whitestone, New York, by Keith Streng (born September 18, 1955, New York City) an ...
,
Noir Désir
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and La Mano Negra
Manu Chao
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orchestra.
In 1999, hundreds of concerts and three albums later, the new tracks of ''Rock'n roll Comédie'' are recorded in Belgium with former
Black Sabbath
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Producer/Engineer Mike Butcher at the helm, also known for his work with
Marvin Gaye
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.
In the period of the three albums ''Naître'' ("Be Born", 2006), ''Le Banquet de cristal'' ("The Crystal Banquet", 2008) and ''La Fête au village'' ("The Party in the Village", 2009) Red Cardell recorded and performed on stage with many guests including
Dan Ar Braz
Dan Ar Braz (; born Daniel Le Bras on 15 January 1949 in Quimper) is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. Leading guitarist in Celtic music, Dan Ar Braz has recorded as a solo ...
,
Miossec
Christophe Miossec is a French singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.
Beginnings
Christophe Miossec was not new to the world of music when he met his first great success. Between 14 and 17, he was in a teen ...
,
Yann Tiersen
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or
Thomas Fersen
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During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres. He released his first album in 1993; it gave him immediate name recognition ...
. Along with
Oleg Skripka (singer of
Vopli Vidopliassova
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and icon of the
Orange Revolution
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) and Gourtopravci, a female traditional vocal choir, they regularly travelled across Ukraine for concert tours from
Kharkiv
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,
Lviv
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or
Yalta
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and several times in
Kyiv
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with two exceptional performances for
Kraina Mriy
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festival, in front of tens of thousands of spectators at
Maidan independence square.
In 2010, their album ''Soleil Blanc'' ("White sun") is recorded and mixed by the English producer Clive Martin
(who has worked with famous artists such as
Queen
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,
Sting,
David Byrne
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) and co-produced by the French musician Stéfane Mellino, singer and guitarist of
Les Négresses Vertes
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. On this album which shows a more folk and blues trend and also flirts with
Zydeco
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,
Rockabilly
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or
Charleston, the band is supported by the Michel Delage brass section. The song ''Comme une pierre qui roule'' is a tribute to
Bob Dylan
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's ''Like a Rolling Stone'' and the song ''
Robert Johnson
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'' to the American blues singer and guitarist.
Spring 2012, their album ''Falling in love'', recorded in France, was mixed in
New York city
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by the American sound engineer ''Ariel Borujow'' (
Black Eyed Peas
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,
Madonna
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,
Just Blaze
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) at Stadium Red studio in Harlem. The album was awarded as best progressive edge album of the Year by the Indie acoustic project (USA), in 2013.
In 2014, with the ''Fest-rock'' show, they represented Brittany alongside
Bagad Kemper (the most-titled bagad of the Breton
pipe bands
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The most common form of pipe band consists of a section of pipers playing the Great Highland bagpipe, a ...
national championship) for ''La Nuit de la Bretagne'' ("The Brittany Night") French tour, including a date at
Bercy Arena
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in Paris. In April, they announced their participation as the new creation of the
Festival des Vieilles Charrues (The biggest in France) for its 2014 edition :
The Celtic Social Club
The Celtic Social Club is a musical band formed in 2013 and led by Manu Masko.
The band is formed by a group of Bretons and Scots musicians, members of The Silencers, Red Cardell and Ronan Le Bars Group with guests related to the world Celt ...
, a
supergroup Supergroup or super group may refer to:
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of seven Breton musicians and others, which includes
Jimme O'Neill
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(
The Silencers
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Plot summary
When a female agent in Mexico is killed before Helm can complete his mission to extract her, he f ...
), Ronan Le Bars (
Héritage des Celtes) and the three members of Red Cardell. Within the new band they recorded their first album released in June. We also see Red Cardell in July in the other side of
Pyrénées
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on the stage of the main Celtic festival of Spain in Ortigueira in
Galicia and December 31 in
Cyprus
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to end the year.
In February 2015, they began a French tour within The Celtic Social Club and also announced venues in Germany (
TFF Rudolstadt TFF may stand for:
Festivals
* Taipei Film Festival, an annual film festival in Taipei, Taiwan
* Taormina Film Fest, international film festival in Taormina
* Telluride Film Festival, an annual film festival in Telluride, Colorado, USA
* TFF Rudols ...
), Switzerland (the
Geneva
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Celebrations) and three gigs in New York City, invited by the association of Breton diaspora of
Big Apple
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to celebrate the Feast of
Saint-Yves, National Day of Brittany.
In early October 2015, Manu Masko announced his departure from Red Cardell. A few days later Jean-Pierre Riou precise continue the adventure and announces a new album for March 2016 co-authored with Jean-Michel Moal.
Jean-Pierre Riou and Jean-Michel Moal, co-founders of the group in 1992, meet again after four years of separation. They are accompanied for this new formation by multi-instrumentalist Pierre Sangra (
Thomas Fersen
Thomas Fersen (born 4 January 1963 in Paris) is a French singer-songwriter.
During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres. He released his first album in 1993; it gave him immediate name recognition ...
), partner since the album ''Naître'' in 2006, and drummer Hibu Corbel (Robin Foster,
Alexis HK).
Current members
* Jean-Pierre Riou (lead vocals, guitars, mandolin, banjo, bombards, harmonica)
(1992–present)
* Jean-Michel Moal (accordion)
(1992–2011 / 2015–present)
* Pierre Sangra (fiddle, guitars, mandolin, banjo and backing vocals)
(2015–present)
* Hibu Corbel (drums, percussions, samples and backing vocals)
(2015–present)
Jean-Pierre Riou avec Fest-Rock.JPG,
Jean-Michel Moal.jpg,
Hibu Corbel - 1 - Red Cardell.jpg,
FIL 2014 - Red Cardell Fest-Rock concert - 1747.JPG,
Additional members on stage
* Pierre Stéphan (fiddle)
(2011–2015)
* Ronan le Bars (great Highland bagpipe, Uilleann pipes, tin and low whistle)
(2012–2015)
Former members
* Manu Masko (drums, percussions, Keyboards, Samples, loops and backing vocals)
(2001–2015)
* Mathieu Péquériau (harmonica, washboard, percussions, and backing vocals)
(2011–2015)
* Ian Proërer (drums)
(1992–2001)
* Patrick Goyat (bass)
(1992–1994)
* Christophe Poignant (bass)
(1992)
Manu Masko.jpg, Manu Masko
FIL 2014 - Red Cardell Fest-Rock concert - 1803.JPG, Mathieu Péquériau
Ian Proerer.jpg, Ian Proërer
History of the composition of Red Cardell
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bar:Moal from:01/10/2015 till:01/04/2018 color:Accordéon
bar:Proërer from:01/07/1992 till:30/05/2001 color:Batterie
bar:Poignant from:02/07/1992 till:31/10/1992 color:Basse
bar:Goyat from:01/11/1992 till:05/09/1994 color:Basse
bar:Masko from:01/09/2001 till:04/10/2015 color:Batterie
bar:Péquériau from:01/04/2011 till:04/10/2015 color:Harmonica
bar:Sangra from:01/12/2015 till:end color:Fiddle
bar:Corbel from:01/12/2015 till:end color:Batterie
bar:Lucas from:01/04/2018 till:end color:Basse
Discography
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Discography of Red Cardell on Wikipedia in French
* Within The Celtic Social Club.
References
External links
Official Red Cardell website(English and French languages)
Official Red Cardell Facebook page(French language)
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Red Cardell on Wikipedia in French
Jean-Pierre Riou blog(French language)
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Breton musical groups
French world music groups
French rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1992