Sylvain BAROU

Bio:

"Sylvain Barou, from Brittany is considered one of the best flute players of his generation. Playing mainly Irish and Breton music, Sylvain has played with Sualtam, David Pasquet, Guichen, Denez Prigent, Jacques Pellen-Celtic Procession, Gildas & JB Boclé, Dan Ar Braz, Soig Siberil, Yvan Cassar.. and has also been heard playing at some occasions with a few of the greatest names of Irish traditional music (Donal Lunny, Liz Carroll, John Doyle, Paddy Glackin…) he has been seen playing at some of the major festivals and venues of the genre such as Glasgow Celtic Connections, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Festival de Cornouaille, Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Les Tombées de la Nuit, Transmusicales, Paléo Festival, Ennis Trad Festival, FMM Sines, Théatre de La Ville, Jazz à Vienne, Bercy, Stade de France, Musiques Nomades in Nouakchott, Tanger Festival, Dranouter Folk Fest, etc...

Today, Sylvain travels the world with his own group and the bands Comas (irish music) and with guitar player Jean Charles Guichen (ex.Ar Re Yaouank), he is also part of a new exciting irish project called "Guidewires" with Padraig Rynne, Tola Custy, Paul Mc Sherry and Karol Lynch. Sylvain also plays in Jacques Pellen's new group TAHLI GANG with jazz, breton and indian flavours. He is also an active member of an indian fusion/pop group, Olli & The Bollywood Orchestra, indian music is a strong influence as he also plays the bansuri flute. (Olli & The B.O has released 2 albums, both mixed at Realworld studios.) More recently, he has been also strongly influenced by sufi music, from Turkey and Iran in particular, and likes to arrange it with traditional breton music in his new group with Keyvan Chemirani and R & J. Pellen (he already made a project in that sense in 2005 inviting Istanbul oud player Smadj to play with breton musicians.) Sylvain also experiments various indian music projects with tabla genius Prabhu Edouard and santoor maestro Sandip Chatterjee.

It may sound strange that he uses so different influences and traditions, but Sylvain managed to create a common language between all that , with a huge respect of each tradition."

(extract from www.tradmusic.com) THE GUIDEWIRES ALBUM IS FINALLY OUT !!!! ORDER IT HERE : .. .. .. .. .. ..

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Duo Barou-Guichen @ Yaouank 2009

Liz Carroll-John Doyle-S.Barou/Batz Sur Mer

Jacques Pellen-Celtic Procession - FMM Sines 2006

Celtic Procession FMM Sines 2006

Recording session-Denez Prigent, with Donal Lunny

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mai 29, 2008

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SYLVAIN BAROU PROJECT (from trio to quintet) (breton/irish/oriental) Ronan Pellen: cittern, cello / Jacques Pellen: guitar / Keyvan Chemirani: zarb,daf,percussions / Julien Stevenin: double bass / Sylvain Barou: flutes.

GUIDEWIRES (irish music) : Padraig Rynne: concertina/Tola Custy: fiddle/Paul McSherry: guitar/Karol Lynch: bouzouki/Sylvain Barou: flute.

TRIO DONAL LUNNY-PADRAIG RYNNE-SYLVAIN BAROU (irish music) : Donal Lunny:bouzouki, guitar, bodhran Padraig Rynne: concertina Sylvain Barou: flutes, pipes

TRIO JOHN DOYLE/SEAMIE O'DOWD/SYLVAIN BAROU

: guitars, vocals, fiddle, flute....

JACQUES PELLEN "THALI⁴ GANG" (jazz/breton) : Jacques Pellen : guitars/ Geoffroy Tamisier : trumpet/ Prabhu Edouard: tabla,kanjira, percussions/ Sylvain Barou : flutes, fx

DUO S.BAROU-JC.GUICHEN (breton music) : Jean-Charles Guichen : guitare/ Sylvain Barou : flutes, fx, loops

TRIO SYLVAIN BAROU (FEST-NOZ)(breton music): Ronan Pellen: cittern / Julien Stevenin: bass, double bass / Sylvain Barou: flutes

CHATURANGA (indian music) : Prabhu Edouard: tabla Sandip Chatterjee: santoor Christophe Wallemme: double bass Sylvain Barou: bansuri flutes, fx/laptop

DUO BARON-BAROU (breton music/turkish-ottoman music) : Florian Baron: oud Sylvain Barou: flute

OLLI & THE BOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA (indian electronica/bollywood songs) : Ollivier Leroy : vocals/ Prabhu Edouard: tabla, dholak, kanjira/ Sudeshna Bhattacharya : sarod, veena/ Lannig Le Faucheur: keyboards/ Jesse Lucas aka VJ Jess : video/ Erwan Volant : bass/ Sylvain Barou : bansuri flutes, duduk, algozey, programming/beats, fx/ guest dhol drummers : Johnny Kalsi, Bobby Panesar/ Jacques Yves Lafontaine : FOH sound/ Laurent Poulain: lights

Influences:

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Irish trad, breton & scottish music. also indian classical music, Ottoman, turkish, persian sufi music, cretan music, oriental fusion,jazz/electronica...

Matt Molloy, Jean-Michel Veillon, Paddy Keenan, Donal Lunny, Frankie Gavin, Johnny Doran, Liz Carroll, Ronan Browne, Jacky Molard, Patrick Molard, Youenn Le Bihan, Erik Marchand, Alain Genty, Jacques Pellen...

and also : Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Rakesh Chaurasia, Süleyman & Kudsi Erguner, Sadreddin Özçimi, Göksel Baktagir, Niyazi Sayın, Taksim trio, Mercan Dede, Ross Daly, Stelios Petrakis, Murat Salim Tokaç, Trio Chemirani, Hossein Alizadeh, Hossein Omoumi, Alim Qasimov, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Burhan Öçal, Ercan Irmak, Djivan Gasparyan, Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Orbital, Vasen...

Sounds Like:

Guidewires at festival Cornouaille, Quimper on 21/07/09

Hoodwinked / Slip Jig For Janet / The Recession Jig .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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