Artist: Kornog
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Premiere
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
The medicine of Brittany was introduced to a great deal of the cosmos through the playing of Kornog. During the half a dozen days that they were initially together (1981 to 1987), the group toured nearly nonstop and released four memorable albums. More than a decennary since they went their break ways, the members of Kornog hold reunited. Despite the drawn-out sabbatical, the group's mixture of Scottish ballads and original instrumentals good as exciting as ever.
Kornog delineated the combined visual modality of iV highly-talented musicians. The sole non-Breton member, Jamie McMenemy (vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, citole) had played with several traditional ethnic music bands patch a educatee at Glasgow school day of Art. Turning professional in 1976, he toured and recorded with the Battlefield Band until moving to Brittany in 1979. Two geezerhood subsequently, he recorded a solo album, The Road to Kerrigouarch, and helped to from Kornog. Although he remained outside of music during the number 1 six long time following Kornog's detachment, he began to resurface in 1993. His many projects since include performances with Belgium-based Celtic isthmus, Orion, a duo with Kornog violinist Christian Lemaitre, and a trio, Taxi Mauve, that accompanied vocalizer Gerard Delahaye.
Lamaitre began playing tinker in his provenance of Paris before moving to Brittany, his ancestral home. During the geezerhood that he first played with Kornog, he balanced his affair with the band with performances with a Breton dance group, Pennou Skoulm and a bowed stringed instrument ensemble, Archetype. Following Kornog's detachment, Lemaitre remained active, playacting with an ensemble of traditional music teachers, Tantad, and a fez-noz group, Storvan. In 1992, 1995 and 1999, he toured with fiddlers Kevin Burke and Johnny Cunningham as Celtic Fiddle festival. Lemaitre resumed his quislingism with McMenemy in a duo in 1999. In accession to rejoining Kornog, he continues to work with Celtic singer Gilles Servat.
Wooden flute and bombarde player Jean-Michel Veillon was one of the first musicians to manipulation the wooden flute to play Celtic music. Playing the bombarde from the agwe xIV, he taught himelf to play the wooden flute glass in 1977. Prior to becoming a innovation member of Kornog, Veillon recorded iI albums of Breton dance music with the band, Galorn. He continued to play Breton dance music, while touring and transcription with ornog, forming a band, Pennou Skoulm in 1985. After the detachment of Kornog, he explored nontraditional music with trey bands -- Den, Barbaz and the Alain Genty Group. Since 1993, Veillon has performed in a duo that he shares with Breton guitarist Yvon Riou. Veillon has as well continued to record as a soloist. His 1993 album, 'E Koat Nizon, was the first base album devoted to Breton music played on the wooden thwartwise flute. A like album, Er Pasker, followed in 1999.
The newest member of Kornog, Nicolas Quemener (guitar, flutes, vocals) has replaced original member Soig Siberil in the reanimated stria. A lord open-tuning guitarist, Quemener grew up in Angers, France and studied percussion section in the National School of Music. Emigrating to Ireland in 1990, he linked Arcady, left with the group until 1994 when he linked the Belgian isthmus, Orion. Relocating to Brittany in 1993, he co-founded the traditional Breton dance stria, Skeduz. In 1997 and 1998, Quemener toured with Dan Ar Braz' fifty-piece group, Heritage Des Celtes. In accession to functional with Kornog, he continues to play in a duo that he shares with uillean piper Ronan Le Bars, and, linked by Lemaitre, in a trio that backs Celtic singer Gilles Servat.
