Yann Franch Kemener

Hommage A La Poesie Bretonne Yann Franch Kemener

This recording, "a tribute to Breton poetry", marks forty-five years of a rich and intensive career of explorations, of encounters and of creativity. It started with what we commonly call "folk poetry", transmitted orally, worn and weathered by time, chewed on and breathed out by the lips of peasants, labourers, pilgrims and beggars. Then came the time when writers turned their attention to their own time, opening up the horizons of what is possible, lyrical, sarcastic --mystical, even. Not a nostalgic look, but look fulfilled in the memory of these much-loved faces and voices, of the rhythms and ideals carried by their words and their music.