"Le Sentiment des Brutes" is a musical and photographic show by Régis Huby and Laurent Grall Rousseau (projected images, super 8 sequences, videographies).
- Régis Huby acoustic and electric violins
- Hervé Villieu biniou
- Hervé Villieu biniou
- Jean Le Floc'h bombarde
- Noël Akchoté guitars (and percussions on "Têtu")
- Bernard Subert clarinet, bass clarinet
- Marc Anthony old electroacoustic
- Vincent Guérin double bass
- Régis Boulard battery
Recorded and mixed in January and February 1998 at "La Buissonne" studios in Pernes les Fontaines Sound engineer Gérard de Haro Assistants Boris Darley, Gilles Olivesi Editing and mastering Roger Amoros Producer and artistic director Régis Huby Artistic advisor Jean François Vrod Preface Louis Sclavis Cover photography Valérie Villieu and Laurent Grall Rousseau
Label: Abalone Productions
In his search for total art, Régis Huby starts from Breton folklore and harmless noises collected through picnicking and do-it-yourself, and he comes to set up an astonishing dramaturgy that escapes any "regionalist" position, but focuses above all on transfiguring the basic materials. The result is a musical and photographic show whose strange title evokes a play of opposites. Submitting traditional references to daring interpretations, mixing the bombarde, the biniou and the hurdy-gurdy with modern instruments familiar from jazz, Régis Huby opens the chapter of "Breton postmodernism". Claude Poizot
"Ever since Django Reinhardt brought gypsy music to jazz in the 1920s, European jazz has thoughtfully incorporated various native folk musics into itself, often creating exciting new hybrids. Violinist Regis Huby's first album as a leader is a sterling example of this cross-cultural experimentation; born and raised in France's coastal Brittany region, an area with a vital musical tradition based on the combination of the violin and a special regional reed instrument called the Breton bagpipe, Huby has brought that regional folk style into France's equally exciting avant-garde jazz scene. The 17 tracks here range from "Maria" - a nearly nine-minute adaptation of a folk song played on Breton bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, and electric violin for an otherworldly skirling sound - to minute-long fragments of skronking free jazz. Odd though it is, the combination works wonderfully, making Le Sentiment des Brutes one of the more fascinating European avant-garde jazz records of its time." Stewart Mason (All Music Guide mp3.com).