Allaire accordionist Yannig Noguet releases his 4th album with singer Rozenn Talec

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« I want to do this! » The little guy from Péaule has a clear memory of his first fest-noz, in Sulniac, where the group played Tammles in which the Bainsois Alain Pennec played the accordion. “I was 6 or 7 years old,” says the man who has lived traditional music to the fullest for 40 years. Yannig Noguet publishes “Melezour”4th album from the duo he forms with singer from central Brittany and Breton Rozenn Talec.

In the wake of Alain Pennec and Ronan Robert

The Pays de Redon is a compendium of great artists. “I took my first accordion lessons with Ronan Robert », disciple of Alain Pennec, who transmitted the virus to his daughter Camillewho became a singer, with whom they deploy their writing and performing talents in the premier album du Bob Duo.

« Mon first groupwhen I was a teenager, I trained with Mathieu and Erwan Hamon,” continues Yannig Noguet. Yes, the brothers of Plessé, pillars of the Hamon-Martin Quintetwho also published a magnificent CD in 2024. “Then it began Gwenfol’s adventure “, in 1992. “I was only 14 years old! And the group stopped after 6 years. I was 20! »

Since then, Yannig Noguet has continued to reinvent traditional music, drawing inspiration from collections from Dastum a you Breton cultural group of Pays de Vilaineto make it “modern music”, always contemporary, “which makes you want”.

In addition to being an excellent musician, especially with singers Gilles Servat et Gérard DelahayeYannig Noguet also has the talent to reveal and highlight the talent of others behind the mixing desk.

The look of Vincent Padovani

But not for his own music: “When you listen to yourself again, it’s never good. We worked with Julien Padovani », a fine outside ear, which has become essential in the traditional environment, notably to work with the Hamon-Martin Quintet. “He knows us well enough so that we do not get lost in what does not reflect who we are. »

Reflection? This is the very theme of the CD. “Melezour”, in Breton, is the mirror. “It’s been almost 15 years playing together with Rozenn”, met for the first time in Reims then in Cavan two weeks later. ” I have loved her voice. » A jam effect which sealed the birth of the duo between the singer of “kan ha diskan” and the diatonic accordionist.

“Where do we come from? Where are we going?

This CD is an opportunity for Rozenn Talec and Yannig Noguet to ask themselves: “ Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? » The answers are in the compositions. “ Rozenn writes texts. I compose and arrange the music. » In the traditional spirit, terroirs. Who says composition says reflection of today’s concerns. New, “ Rozenn also sings in French » in addition to Breton. “Our starting point is often the desire toexpress our view on society, politics, ecologywithout making the stage a platform. » Romantic banter, the sad fate of farm clerks, the rise of the extreme right and the fight against mega-basins thus inspire texts, which Yannig Noguet underlines with his accordion lines.

New musical colors

Musically, the album resembles multiple richesof ” new colors ». Is un heady drone stretches the time ofinvitation to dancethe opportunity to raise awareness of the misfortunes of the “Daughters of Rostrenen” who struggle to get married. Here another invitation to dance plays the contrast between the wild bellows box of Yannig Noguet while the melody of Rozenn Talec flows. Everywhere, the arrangements and duplication of vocal and accordion tracks create the tension that the dance carries. The listener feels this deep energy that grips the dancers arm in arm, in a mirror effect with that generated by the singer and the musician.

The CD “melezour” can be listened to and danced to ! To celebrate the release of the album, the duo has multiplied the festù-noz in the four corners of historic Brittany at the end of the year 2024. “We will be in Pacé on January 11, 2025.”

Baroque, Breton and Irish… in Belgium

Yannig Noguet’s diary is full. “In January, I will go to Belgium to one week of creative residency on a project of Baroque and Renaissance music where the viola da gambawill mingle with traditional music from Brittany and Ireland. I will play there alongside Marthe Vassalosinger of “kan ha diskan” as well as lyrical singing. The show is scheduled for three dates in March, in Belgium. » Early February “I will participate in the Gilles Servat’s 80th birthday partyin Locoal-Mendon (Morbihan).

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