Katell Keineg is probably one of the best musicians you’ve never heard of. You might know one of her songs sung by Nathalie Merchant called “Gulf of Araby” but otherwise she keeps a very low profile… And that’s a pity because her music and voice is pure and beautiful and very original too.
Harmonium en Californie
Music Posted on 7 October 2012 17:40It was pure coincidence that I discovered the music of Canadian/French group Harmonium. We were on vacation in Bretagne, France and i believe it was in a small recordstore in Concarneau where i bought the album Les Cinq Saisons (1975) of the Québec group Harmonium. Never know why I exactly bought that album; maybe because of the fold-out cover, maybe because of the title of the album, maybe because of the songlisting (long songs) or maybe because it was cheap priced? Anyway, i bought the album and we could listen to it in the local bar at Kerleven which we visited daily (and nightly too). Great music and i collected many of their albums in the following years by visiting the specialized recordstores in Amsterdam like Concerto and Boudisque.
Again pure coincidence when i was looking around on YouTube and found a short documentry of the bands’s visit to America. I’ve edited it a little, leaving out the politics and keeping the music in. Hope you’ll like it! Click on the record cover to see the edited 20 minutes version…
Here’s the link to the original YouTube videoclip (29 min):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYv7GPuQG1c&feature=g-vrec
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