''Chemins de Terre'' is a

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album by

Alan Stivell Alan Stivell (; born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a French, Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp. From the early 1970s, he revived global interest in the Celtic (specifically ...

, originally released in 1973. It was produced by Franck Giboni. It was retitled ''From Celtic Roots...'' in the United Kingdom and ''Celtic Rock'' in Germany.

Track listing

All tracks Traditional, arranged by Alan Stivell; except where indicated #"Susy MacGuire" 3:35 #"Ian Morrison Reel" 4:09 (Peter McLeod, arranged by Alan Stivell) #" She Moved Through The Fair" 4:13 #"Can Y Melinydd" 1:59 #"Oidhche Mhaith" 1:53 #"An Dro Nevez" 3:45 #"Maro e Ma Mestrez" 3:08 #"Brezhoneg' Raok" 3:08 (Alan Stivell) #"An Hini a Garan" 4:11 #"Metig" 4:07 #"Kimiad" 3:34

Personnel

- Celtic harp, vocals, Scottish bagpipes, whistle,

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, timbales,

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Gabriel Yacoub Gabriel Yacoub is a French musician, songwriter and visual artist. Biography Yacoub was born in 1952, in Paris, of a Lebanese people, Lebanese father and a French people, French mother. He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group ...

- acoustic guitar, banjo,

dulcimer The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...

psaltery A psaltery ( el, ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer; the harp, virginal, harpsichord and clavichord were also inspired by ...

, vocal *René Werneer - fiddle, vocals *Pascal Stive - organ, piano *Jean-Luc Hallereau - bass, vocal * Dan Ar Bras - electric and acoustic guitars, vocal *Michel Santangelli - drums *Marie Yacoub -

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s, vocals *Elyane Werneer, Mireille Werneer - vocals *Michel Delaporte -

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s with *(Breton pipe band) Bagad Bleimor - bagpipes, bombardes, Scottish drums

References

Sources

* Jonathyne Briggs, ''Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music in France, 1958-1980'', Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 4 "Sounds Regional: The World in Breton Folk Music" {{Authority control 1973 albums Alan Stivell albums Fontana Records albums Vertigo Records albums