Startijenn

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Startijenn at the Festival de Cornouaille 2013

Startijenn is an instrumental group (" Bagad ") from Brittany . Stylistically, she is attached to traditional Breton music and in particular to the Celtic dances such as An Dro , Plinn , Jig and Reel , which she has developed with elements of rock , jazz and, since the early 2010s, punk and Raï . The Breton-language band name means something like full of energy or full of energy.

The band has long been a regular guest at the major annual Breton music and cultural festivals ( Festival Interceltique in Lorient , Festival de Cornouaille in Quimper , Festival des Vieilles Charrues in Carhaix-Plouguer , Festival Yaouank and Les Tombées de la nuit in Rennes , Les Jeudis du port in Brest , Festival Eurofonik in Nantes ) and has released six albums so far . Startijenn has toured all over Europe and, for the first time in 2008, also performed in Germany and Switzerland. The band also gave concerts in China and Malaysia and will tour Australia in 2020.

History of the group

Tangi Oillo
Youenn Roue
Lionel Le Page
Tangi Le Gall-Carré
Julien Stevenin

In the spring of 1997, four 13-year-old boys at the private, Breton-speaking Diwan school in Le Relecq-Kerhuon near Brest discovered their common interest in Breton musical instruments and began to play together regularly. They continued this - under the band name Startijenn, with a change in personnel (see below under line- up and instrumentation ) - in the following years at the secondary school in Carhaix-Plouguer. In 2004 a percussionist and drummer joined as the fifth member. In the first years of its existence, the band performed mainly at the numerous folk festivals in Brittany ( Festoù-Noz ) and gave gigs in schools and smaller clubs.

In 2006 they released their first record, which they produced themselves and which was simply titled after the group's name. The CD , like all the following, was distributed by Coop Breizh , a large regional book and record publisher with its own label . It was also during this time that Startijenn's first appearances at major festivals took place; so they opened the Festival de Cornouaille on the 2007 national holiday . From their second record, Paker Prod, a commercial company, took over the production of the recordings. Since then, Startijenn has performed more and more often abroad; in the German-speaking countries they performed at the Guinness Irish Folk Festival in Sion (2008), at the Folkherbst in Plauen (2011) and at the Rudolstadt Festival (2016).

With the bassist Julien Stevenin, Startijenn expanded in 2011 to six musicians. Founding member Konogan An Habask left the group in 2013; in Lionel Le Page he was replaced by another bagpiper . Two years later, the band decided not to get a successor for the then retired drummer Kaou Gwenn.

With her fourth long-playing record Startijenn - El-TaQa Live , she broke new ground in that she summarized recordings of six live concerts that she gave between October 2012 and August 2013 at various festivals and at those with Sofiane Saïdi, Erwan Moal, Erwan Volant and Jérôme Kerihuel always had four guest musicians. As a result, there was also a stylistic development towards a stronger inclusion of modern music genres, especially rap and Raï , which Jean-Pierre Riou, long-time frontman of the Breton indie rock group Red Cardell , characterized with the words that Startijenn was “on the search for the secret recipe between cultural heritage and the future ”. At the end of 2013, France 3 broadcast a half-hour concert excerpt with songs from this LP in its series Bali Breizh (“Boulevard der Bretagne”).

In February 2019, the group invited percussionist Cyril Atef as a surprise guest to their performance at the World Music Festival Roue Waroch in Plescop .

Instrumentation and instrumentation

The five-man core formation of Startijenn is often supplemented by other musicians at concerts and recordings.

Discography

So far, Startijenn has released the following longplay CDs:

  • 2006: Start jenn
  • 2008: Pakit Holl!
  • 2010: 'kreiz da fas!
  • 2013: Startijenn - El-TaQa Live
  • 2015: Skeud
  • 2016: Paker Tour - Live

Exact sales figures are not known; At Spotify , the number of hits for individual songs is a maximum of 25,000 (as of December 2019). Pakit Holl and 'kreiz da fas were each awarded as “Best Record of the Year in Breton Music” (meilleur disque de musique bretonne de l'année) . Individual titles have also appeared on around a dozen compilations ; Among them is a song from her appearance at the Rudolstadt Festival .

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b after the group's presentation on startijenn.bzh
  2. ↑ Pascal Lamour: Un monde de musique bretonne. Ed. Ouest-France, Rennes 2018, ISBN 978-2-7373-7898-0 , p. 54
  3. ↑ Article “ Startijenn brings lively folk dances from Brittany to the Rainforest World Music Festival ” from July 4, 2011 at worldmusiccentral.org
  4. ↑ All tour dates since 2009 on startijenn.bzh
  5. ↑ Festival program , there p. 4 (announcement) and 5 (band biography)
  6. ↑ Article “ Konogan Habask turns the page Startijenn ” from May 28, 2013 at ouest-france.fr
  7. ↑ Playlist from El-TaQa Live at open.spotify.com
  8. ^ Quotation from Jean-Pierre Riou in the supplement to the CD El-TaQa , p. 2
  9. ↑ Startijenn's TV appearance at Bali Breizh on December 29, 2013
  10. ↑ Article “ Startijenn invites Cyril Atef as a guest musician ” from February 13, 2019 at ouest-france.fr
  11. ↑ Title list of the CD from the Rudolstadt Festival 2016 at discogs.com