Guilhem Lacroux

Guilhem Lacroux is a French composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, lute, banjo and mandolin. He is part of the La Nòvia collective, a circle of musicians who bring traditional French repertoire into experimental music, and plays guitar in its groups Toad and La Baracande and in the duo Faune with Jacques Puech. Lacroux studied solfège, harmony and acousmatic composition. Toad, his trio with Yann Gourdon and Pierre-Vincent Fortunier, began by reworking medieval and Renaissance dances; on a later album he plays twelve-string guitar and bass pedals.