Search - Le Vent du Nord :: Mesdames Et Messieurs! (IMPORT)

Great Live Album

eclectic collectrix | Fresno, California | 12/27/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a live album featuring the current line-up of the band as well as guest appearances by former members and friends and siblings of the group. (It seems as if everyone in the traditional Quebec music scene is related by blood or marriage.) If you have the other albums by the group (and you should), you will already have these songs, but the live versions are generally faster and, well, live. This must have been a great party and the fun and excitement are catching. These are all wonderful musicians. If you like fiddle, accordion, guitar, piano, and hurdy-gurdy in various combination, lively dance music with a strong Celtic connection, romantic and bawdy songs in French, you'll love this. By the way, a great Irish singer once said that the essence of a typical Irish love song is "I loved you from afar and now you're dead." The crux of a typical Quebec love song seems to be "I loved you and you turned me down. What I fool I was; I think I'll get drunk." Can't argue with that."