Fiesta Noz! is French-Argentine Bal Folk band featuring:
Jérôme Guillot: Melodeon and vocals
Sergio Ribnikov Gunnarsson: Irish bouzouki and vocals
Daniel Wechsler: Irish squeezebox, dulcimer, fiddle, etc.
Brian Barthe: bagpipes and whistles
Pablo Franchini: bass
Lucas De Carlo: percussion


05. La Danse de l'Ours

This album will be released at April 27th!

NORDIC NAMGAR
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In 2013 the Riddu Riddu festival commisioned a piece by Ole Jørn Myklebust. With Namgar Lhasaranova from Buryatia, Russia (north of Mongolia) and Niillas Holmberg from Sápmi, it was set for a meeting between two of the most unique indigenous voices in the world today. Both represent their culture, music and tradition at a very high level, a remarkable collaboration between two voices that both contrast and complement each other.
The band made new arrangements to the traditional music from Buryatia, but Myklebust also wrote a lot of new music with traditional lyrics from Buryatia and Mongolia.

The Band

    Namgar Lhasaranova (vocals)

    Niillas Holmberg (vocals)

    Ole Jørn Myklebust (trumpet, xaphoon, vocals)

    Fredrik Ellingsen (guitar, electronics)

    Kjetil Dalland (bass)

    Herman Rundberg (drums, percussion)

    Evgeny Zolotarev (chanza)


Nordic Namgar - Running Horses - Radio Edit

1 - Babooshka

These are two classic reels, arranged for fiddle, guitar, low whistle, Irish flute... and Indian tabla?! Yes, you read that right!

For a while I've been trying to showcase how well the tabla fits within a trad environment, and here it is: The Road to Glountane and The Earl's Chair, along with wonderful co-conspirators Keko Perera (Spain) and Santiago Molina (Argentina). Thanks to them for allowing me to mess with their stuff :) 

Hope you like it!

Credits
Santiago Molina: low whistle, Irish flute
Keko Perera: fiddle, guitar
Carlos Yoder: tabla

Mixed and mastered by Santiago Molina

Two Irish reels accompanied by Indian tabla

I interview my fellow artist about how she broke her toe, which involves an actual forbidden forest, and we come to some grave conclusions about our chosen profession.

Back to the Woods

El Rey

LA ONDINA DE VACARES (English & Lyrics below)

La ondina de Vacares cuenta la historia de un desamor, de una obsesión. Es la leyenda de una mujer que quedó atrapada en el lado oscuro: dejó de creer y su amor se transformó en neurosis. Se inspira en la leyenda con el título: ‘La laguna de Vacares’, que se cuenta en dicha localidad de Sierra Nevada. Granada.

Cuenta la leyenda que en la Laguna de Vacares habita una ondina que, durante la noche, se aparece a los viajeros que allí se encuentran adoptando la figura de un pájaro. Una vez en su presencia se transforma en una bellísima mujer, que mediante engaños y palabras de amor los arrastra hacia el borde de la laguna sepultándolos bajo sus aguas, donde los devora. Dicen que la mujer-pájaro amó una vez a uno de estos viajeros y por ese amor, en lugar de matarlo, lo subió sobre sus alas transportándolo a su gruta, donde lo convirtió en su compañero y su amante. Pero pasado un tiempo, el joven descubrió los cadáveres de aquellos que habian sido devorados por la ondina y presa del terror, urdió un engaño escapando así de su poder. Desde entonces, la mujer no ha vuelto a perdonar a nadie y aun hoy, los viajeros evitan que la noche los sorprenda en las cercanías de la laguna, pues se dice que todo aquel que la vea estará irremediablemente condenado. (Leyendas de Sierra Nevada)

This story is about a neurosis. Inspired by the legend ‘In the lake of Vacares’ (Sierra Nevada, Granada), this song tells the story of a wicked undine, who became visible to travellers overnight by adopting the figure of a bird. Once in their presence, that bird would turn into a beautiful woman. With the help of deceiving words of love, that woman would drag them to the edge of the lagoon and devour them. It is said that there was one time when the bird-woman fell for one of these travellers. Legend has it that she flew him to her cave where they became companions and lovers. After a while though, the young man came across the bodies of all the men who had been devoured by the undine, and terrified, he concocted a plan thus escaping from her power. Since then, she has never forgiven anyone, and even today, travellers avoid walking around the lake at night, for it is said that everyone who sees her shall inevitably be doomed.

En la laguna de Vacares
que no te sorprenda la luna,
no seas presa de sus ojos
de pájaro salvaje

Bajo la espuma del agua
te devorará en su labia
te devastará su canto
de notas afiladas

Nekene, nekene, nekene, nekenené, Nekene, nekene, nekene, nekenené

De dia un ave de nevada
de noche una esbelta dama
es la ondina de Vacares
que a hombres de bien reclama

Hay quien dice que un viajero
ascendió en su cuerpo alado
y a la gruta con engaños
la cautivó, descuidado.



La Ondina De Vacares

This Too Will Pass"

As its title indicates the song is a call for change. The lost songbird and the hills turned into gold are some of the images. «This Too Will Pass» is a soothing yet dramatic pop tune in a folk/rock soundscape. The vocal harmonies and slide guitars create a Beatlesque sound. 

05. La Danse de l'Ours

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