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Voice Union
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Voice Union Fellside Recordings FECD119 (CD, UK, 1997) |
Produced by Paul Adams and Voice Union;
Recorded by Paul Adams except
track 3 recorded by Andrea Celeste Mor;
Artwork by Mary Blood;
Photographs by Paul Adams;
Translations by Graeme Rigby
Musicians
Sandra Kerr (England)
Evelyne Girardon (France)
Liliana Bertolo (Val d’Aoste)
Maddy Prior (England)
on Must I Be Bound?
Tracks
- Bourrees Du Centre (Mariez moi / Tro lo lo!) (2.35)
- Mal Mariée (An Old Man Came Courting Me / Jeune femme, vieil époux / Garçons qui êtes en vie / Siam sedici compagni) (5.59)
- Ninna Nana Jam (J’vais dans la rivière / Bonny at Morn / Dor Mèinà) (2.45)
- Chanson à la Mariée (Le salut a la mariée / Must I Be Bound?) (4.44)
- La Visite (Buna sera viorie / Bonsoir mie bonsoir / Le galant indiscret / The Grey Cock / Bou’na séya) (4.30)
- Oh to Be Alone (2.38)
- Le Moine Complaisant (2.32)
- La Puissance D’Argent (L’argent est un dieu sur terre / The Bonny Pit Laddie) (3.56)
- La Fille Soldat (Petit papillon volage / La jeune citoyenne / Sove (Roud 7; Laws N21; Henry H35) / La ragazza guerriera) (4.34)
- Allegra Mi (3.00)
- Dans Paris Y A T’une Brune (2.33)
- Le sentiment des filles (J’étais lassée / Son qinque mesi / Blue Blazing Blind Drunk / My Laddie Sits Ower Late Up) (4.45)
- Nous Coucherons Ensemble (La feuille verte / Low Down in the Broom) (3.31)
- Jardin D’Amour (2.02)
Sleeve Notes
Bourrees Du Centre (Bourrees from Central France)
Mariez moi (Let Me Be Married)
Traditional french (Berry) from ‘La Chanson populaire français et les
écrivains romantiques’ by Julien Tiersot
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Tro lo lo!
Author: Willy Soulette
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon, Barbara Trojani
Mal Mariée (Badly Married)
An Old Man Came Courting Me
Traditional English/Scottish
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
Jeune femme, vieil époux (Young Wife, Old Husband)
Traditional Savoyard,
from ‘Vieilles chansons savoyardes’ by Claudius Servettaz
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Garçons qui êtes en vie (The Lively Lads)
Traditional from Val d’Aoste (Cogne)
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Siam sedici compagni (We’re Sixteen Compagnons)
Traditional from Val d’Aoste
Arrangement: Liliana Bertolo, Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
Ninna Nana Jam
J’vais dans la rivière (I’m Riding on the River)
Traditional french (Berry)
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr
Bonny at Morn
Traditional English (North East)
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr
Dor Mèinà (Sleep, Little One)
Author: Luis de Jyaryot (Val d’Oste)
Arrangement: Liliana Bertolo, Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
Chanson à la Mariée (Song for the Bride)
Le salut a la mariée (Hail to the Bride)
Traditional High Alpes, from
‘Chansons Populaires Recueillies dans les Alpes Françaises’
by Julien Tiersot
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Must I Be Bound
Traditional English
(with thanks to Maddy Prior for the loan of her voice)
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr, Maddy Prior
La Visite (The Visit)
Buna sera viorie (Goodnight, Young Girls)
Traditional Italian (Piémont)
Arrangement: Liliana Bertolo, Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
(In Alpine villages, by tradition, a room is set aside for young men and women to meet in the evening; the viore/veilleuses are the young women who go there)
Bonsoir mie bonsoir (Good Night, My Love, Goodnight)
Traditional High Alpes, thanks to Catherine Faure
Arrangement: Catharine Faure, Evelyne Girardon
Le galant indiscret (The Indiscreet Lover)
Traditional Savoyard (Tarentaise), from
‘Chansons Populaires Recueillies dans les Alpes Françaises’
by Julien Tiersot
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
The Grey Cock
Traditional English Arrangement: Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
Bou’na séya (Good Night)
Traditional Savoyard (Patois de Tignes), thanks to Jean-Marc Jacquier
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr, Liliana Bertolo
Oh to Be Alone
Text: Anon
Music: Sandra Kerr
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr
Le Moine Complaisant (The Obliging Monk)
Traditional Quebecois, collected from Louis Larochelle, edited by
‘Les presses de l’Université Laval’;
thanks to Robert Aymot for the text of the refrain
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr, Liliana Bertolo
La Puissance D’Argent (The Power of Money)
L’argent est un dieu sur terre (Money Is a God on Earth)
Traditional Quebecois, from
‘Chansons folkloriques françaises au Canada’
by Marguerite and Raoul d’Harcourt
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
The Bonny Pit Laddie
Traditional English (North East)
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
La Fille Soldat (The Soldier Maid)
Petit papillon volage (The Fickle Butterfly)
Traditional from Val d’Aoste, collected from M. Germain Borney of Vieyes
by Sandro Boniface (thanks to him)
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
La jeune citoyenne (The Soldier Girl)
Traditional Savoyard (Tarentaise), from ‘Livre des Chansons’ by
Henri Davenson
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Sove
Traditional English
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr
La ragazza guerriera (The Warrior Maiden)
Traditional from Tessin, thanks to Mireille Ben
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Allegra Mi
Traditional from Val d’Aoste, collected from Mme Louise Millet of Amayvilles
by Liliana Bertolo
Arrangement: Liliana Bertolo, Sandra Kerr
Dans Paris Y A T’une Brune (In Paris There Is a Brown Girl)
Traditional Savoyard,
from ‘Vieilles chansons savoyardes’ by Claudius Servettaz.
Some verses are translations to Patois and English
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Le sentiment des filles (According to the Girls)
J’étais lassée (I Was Weary)
Traditional Breton, collected from Guignère de Hénaff by
Jean Baron (thanks to him)
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Son qinque mesi (Her Five Months)
Traditional from Val d’Aoste, collected by Emanuela Lagnier in
‘Enquête sur le Chant Populaire en Vallée d’Aoste’
at Pont-Saint-Martin
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Blue Blazing Blind Drunk
Traditional Scottish from the singing of Sheila Stewart
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon
My Laddie Sits Ower Late Up
Traditional English (North East)
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr
Nous Coucherons Ensemble (We Will Lie Together)
La feuille verte (When The Leaves Were Green)
Traditional High Savoyard, collected from Eudoxie Blanc by Jean-Marc Jacquier
(thanks to him)
Arrangement: Evelyne Girardon
Low Down in the Broom
Traditional English
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr
Jardin D’Amour
Traditional Savoyard (adapted)
Music: Evelyne Girardon
Arrangement: Sandra Kerr, Evelyne Girardon