What hits the anvil first is Simon Lepage’s bass: his trad has more than free rein, imagine Louis Valois from Harmonium and Sting (from the Police days) in the same agile hands. What can also be heard throughout this sixth album is the part of Tommy Gauthier, who is not de facto one of Nicolas Pellerin’s Grands Hurleurs, but an exceptional violinist and leading provider of original music , which never goes without saying in traditional music. The other musicians in the band more than skillfully mix sources, from rock to bluegrass, without forgetting podorythmy and reels, without which the genre would lose its direction and its origins. Relatively discreet, less shouty than his great acolytes, the proud Nicolas leads the crew safely, adding to the decidedly bottomless archive a few verses of his own. Somewhere between La Bottine Souriante and Salebarbes, the group from Lanaudière, without imposing anything, does not give its place.
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