5ed round

Description

5ed Round is the 5th collective from KBA (this formation created in 2003 by the DROM association and its artistic director Erik Marchand). Pemped means Fifth in Breton and Round (or Rond) like a dance from Pays Pagan (northern Finistère). Kreiz Breizh Akademi 5ed Round is the lyricism of sensitive strings and the fervor of an international youth, as much lulled by traditional music as by rock and trance. Through an unusual instrumentation (hurdy-gurdy and gadulka blending with the forms of the classical Western string orchestra) and an approach moving toward improvised music, the 12 musicians create an unprecedented genre by blurring geographical and temporal boundaries. One imagines oneself in the heart of Algiers, carried by the Middle Eastern sounds of the orchestra, then the situation shifts: the singers appear on stage, the setting changes, we return to the Breton country, that of complicated loves and terrible stories. Nuance, expressiveness, rhythmic precision, all the ingredients are in place for the musical tableaux to follow one another, gently or suddenly. Even in the 21st century, music in Lower Brittany remains modal music*. This allows it to seek out friendships and even affinities with other musical modes around the world. The result is a passionate discussion between string virtuosos, a musical journey around the themes specific to the popular songs of Kreiz Breizh, like a subtle alliance between East and West...