François Morel chante Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec (tous les marins sont des chanteurs)

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Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec... This name resonates today in our ears like a reproach. Who still knows this name? What place do we give to Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec in the anthologies of French poetry or song? None. Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec, who disappeared at sea at thirty in 1900, is a ghost for literature and song: he does not exist. But, as Rimbaud said: "there are no coincidences or there are only coincidences." It was in a flea market in Saint-Lunaire (Ille et Vilaine) that François Morel, leafing through old magazines eaten away by the sea spray, discovered a brochure from 1894 "La Cancalaise" in which twelve songs by Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec were reproduced, illustrated by the author. It was like the hand of the shipwrecked man reaching out to his rescuer. François Morel bought the magazine and made a vow to rescue Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec from the oceanic oblivion into which he had fallen. With the help of Gérard Mordillat and Antoine Sahler, he undertook to restore the texts, to set them to music again, and above all to make them heard once more. An album under the direction of Antoine Sahler with the precious participation of Juliette and Bernard Lavilliers, and musicians familiar with Breton and Celtic music (Irish flutes, accordion, banjo, and mandolin...). "All sailors are singers."