Molene….Didier Squiban
04.25.10
You can’t hear it now but currently pouring out of my stereo is a piece called Ar Baradoz. You’ll find it here on Youtube, however.
The weather is sort of funny at the moment – it’s been really warm, last night, meaning I couldn’t sleep, and really cold now, meaning I wish I was asleep. It’s been close and not close, wet, sunny and grey, sometimes all at the same time. It leaves me feeling slightly jaded.
This music leaves me feelign a lot better though; I don’t know why. I came across Didier Squiban when he was accompanying Yann Fanch Kemener, Brittany’s answer to Iarla O Lionaird and something about his playing got to me so when I saw a solo album in FNAC in Brussels about 12 years ago, I bought it; no argument. I’ve loved it since. Not all of his things appeal to me – he has a tendency to experimental jazz – but the trilogy of Molene/Porz Gwen and one other album the name of which escapes me is absolutely gorgeous, and sometimes…it’s just what I need. Like today with its psycho season adjusting weather.