André Ricros, Louis Sclavis

2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** André Ricros is the founder and director of the Agence des musiques traditionnelle d’Auvergne (the equivalent of our CMTRA); he is a specialist in collecting and also a musician and singer. He plays the cabrette, a kind of Auvergne bagpipe – with a softer sound, however, than that of its Celtic equivalents. It is his contribution that gives the basic colouring to this album recorded in Lyon 23 years ago.
But the other musicians come from jazz, notably Louis Sclavis and Alain Gibert, trombonist, companion from the beginning of Louis Sclavis, member of the ARFI, who intervenes as arranger and artistic producer on this album.
A seminal album if ever there was one, at the origin of a collaboration between Ricros and Gibert that still continues in the Auvergne imagined nearly a quarter of a century later. Sclavis was the go-between between these two on the occasion of this album. It is not just a memorable historical piece: the sounds of jazz, the softness of the winds, particularly Sclavis' clarinet, give a unique sound that will also appeal to those who are not a priori fans of folk balls.