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Thread #161872 Message #3850255
Posted By: GUEST
12-Apr-17 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pierre de grenoble (in English Please)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pierre de grenoble (in English Please)
Gabriel et Marie Yacoub
FolkTraditionalFrenchMedievalMedieval folk
Gabriel Yacoub was born in Paris, of a Lebanese father and a French mother. He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group that toured France in 1971. Before he founded Malicorne Gabriel and Marie Yacoub recorded "Pierre de Grenoble" (1973). This was originally intended to be the name of the group. It included contributions from Dan Ar Braz. With Malicorne Gabriel played acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, epinette de Vosges and banjo, while Marie played electric dulcimer, bouzouki and hurdy-gurdy.
Source:
www.sonichits.com/artist/Gabriel_et_Marie_Yacoub
A whole pirate's full of booty at the site above.
But, it sounds like all the usual trad "Irish Folk"....AKA boring.
Upon rare occasion, he slips into Arabic tonality (mostly in the intros....if he had continued there was potential for an original cross-over).
Not a great talent - but had potential for genius for "bending notes/tones" and melding culture....
Sincerely,
Gargoyle