You may have discovered them on France Bleu breizh izel 1 year ago in the playlist: Dorcha Cobs released her album “First” with a folk rock color with Irish and Breton sounds with singer Topher Loudon (ex Dye and Blah Blah Blah) who came from Ulster to settle in 1986 near Carnac (56) and the ringer Anthony Masselin, musician from Porcaro (56). The group has grown in recent months, to become a quintet with bass, violin, drums, has toured on more than 40 dates in 2022 and will enter the studio in November to record a new album.
“Welcome to Uranus”, recorded live gives you a taste of the new album
Anthony Masselin’s career is quite surprising: born in 1976 in Niort (79) he was first attracted to the Uilleann Pipes which he discovered on a K7 of Davy Spillane, the famous Dublin player of this Irish bagpipe. But the young man first made his debut with the percussions and then the Scottish bagpipes at the bagad of Saint-Lô in Normandy before joining Lann Bihoué where he did his military service and passed his baccalaureate. Then it will be the bagad Melinerion of Vannes, but also the formidable adventure of the bagad Men ha tan, the best soners of Brittany with Senegalese percussionists around Doudou N’Diaye Rose, which allowed him to travel to Africa or Japan. Anthony Masselin,