Marc'h Gouez, by Kristen Nogues

Marc'h Gouez

by Kristen Nogues

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Robert Bloemkolk It's from another planet, yet closer to earth than most music. A strange beauty. Favorite track: Enez Rouz.

Runarlejou It's the first record by the late Kristen Nogues, produced in the mid-70's. She was a great composer and harp player. One of the true classic recordings in the field of contemporary Breton music.

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1.	Enez Rouz 04:54	buy track
2.	Hunvre 01:22	buy track
3.	Ar Gemenerez 03:28	buy track
4.	Marc'h Gouez 05:31	buy track
5.	Pinvidik Eo Va C'hemener 07:26	buy track
6.	Hirness An Devezhiou 02:30	buy track
7.	Ar Bugel Koar 03:12	buy track

about

“Why would I sing in French? I have Breton culture, I speak Breton, I live in Brittany, and the Breton language is the language of this country…” So explained Kristen Noguès, of whom this is the first of the (rare) albums that she recorded Marc’h Gouez, is a fabulous voyage in space on each listening.

Noguès learned the Breton language as a child, at the same time as the Celtic harp, – taking lessons with Denise Mégevand, who would go on to teach others, notably Alan Stivell. At the beginning of the 1970s, she discovered the Breton song tradition (soniou and gwerziou) through Yann Poëns and became involved in Névénoé, a cooperative of traditional expression founded by Gérard Delahaye and Patrick Ewen. It was under this label that her first album Marc’h Gouez, was released in 1976.

With a dozen friends playing guitar, piano, violins, flutes…, Noguès composed not Breton music, but music from Brittany: a type of shared folklore in which imagination is married to the reality of the moment, that of social demands and companionship. At the very beginning of the record, we can hear her drawing up a chair, before the plucked notes of the harp become a cascade: “Enez Rouz”, is an invitation to listen up close.

We are reminded here of the Meredith Monk of “Greensleeves”, there of the early albums of Brigitte Fontaine / Areski, elsewhere of Emmanuelle Parrenin, Pascal Comelade... Noguès rhyming pattern is ever changing: airy (“Hunvre”), cosmopolitain (“Pinvidik Eo Va C'hemener”), enigmatic (“Ar Bugel Koar”), profound (“Ar Gemenerez”) or enchanting (“Hirness An Devezhiou”). And then there is the track from which the album takes its’ name: Marc’h Gouez which, between
nursery rhyme and chamber music, weaves a fabulous web in which the auditor is obliged to be caught. “Brittany equals poetry”: so said André… Breton; and Kristen Noguès proves it to be true.

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released June 2, 2023

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