Eric et Daniel RAILLARD
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Born in 1966 and 1968 in a family swimming in traditional music (their parents dance, sing, tell stories, and their elder brother Christophe plays the diatonic accordion), they learn how to dance at primary school under the direction of Gérard Chaventon (school teacher who chose to replace sports by "bourrée", waltz and mazurkas, and so transmitted his passion to many children in Saulieu), then quicly join a folk group.
At the age of 8, they are given musical instruments : Eric starts learning the diatonic accordion, then the hurdy- gurdy, while Daniel successively learns the chromatic then diatonic accordion. Since then, they are often seen at dances, theme parties, and at the first "Journées de la vielle" ("days of the hurdy-gurdy") in Anost. There they would meet the "ancients", many respected musicians, and benefit from their experience and repertory.
If the two brothers have, since then, chosen different paths (Eric became a professional musician, Daniel chose to remain an amateur), various musical experiments bring them together again. This is how they have decided, back in 1993, to record an audio tape of traditional songs of Morvan, bringing back to life old, forgotten songs, played with the spirit of the days of yore. Thanks to their efforts, many of these songs will then be learnt again by new generations of musicians.
In 2002, they decide to do it again and manage to find many other songs which have been played in the past and then forgotten. It is a long and fastidious piece of work: It consists in listening to old musical collections - their musical quality having gotten worse and worse with time, recreating the original melody, analysing the artistic techniques of the ancients in order to revive with more possible fidelity this well-known "cadence" that characterizes the music of Morvan, to finally arrange the songs without adding too many new elements and record them. The CD called "Jacques Luti" hit the shelves in spring 2003. Its title comes from a collection made by Gérard Chaventon (yes, him again!) from Pierre Machin, which became, since the Raillards have revived it, a real "morvandiau hit"!
"Laivou qu'ot passé le Jacquot Luti
Mâ laivou don qu'al ot, mâ laivou don qu'al ot
Al ot dans lai rivière que pouâche
Mâ laivou don qu'al ot, mâ laivou don qu'al ot ... "
Download this song by Pierre Machin in mp3 format (56ko)!
"Jacques Luti" + "Retour vers le passé":
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117 partitions : airs du Morvan
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