Nolwenn Leroy had the album of French music over the last few years for me. "Histories naturelles" was a highlight for me in every respect. After a very acoustic-tinged album "Le cheshire cat et moi", which was very intimate, restrained and penetrating orchestrated perfectly, but unfortunately did not bring the success they had before, now comes a year later, their new album "Bretonne ": here dubbed Nolwenn native songs and very skilful, spirited, sometimes dreamy and sometimes danceable style. You hear Celtic sounds, world music and French pop, perfectly orchestrated and arranged. The harp comes back as on her last album to use what ever sounds particularly and class.
Nolwenn invites you on a journey to Brittany, bringing partly known and partly unknown pieces that enchant mostly in different languages. So I especially liked the first very peppy title "Tri Martolod", "La jument de Michao" and "Suite sudarmoricaine" and reminiscent of their earlier albums Poprocksong "Brest" best Nolwenns voice is excellent as always, just more. Songs like "Greensleeves" I just can not hear the song "Dans les prisons de Nantes" not my cup of tea, so I forgive even 4 stars.
And so it has also finally the success in France, # 1 on the Amazon charts. Why should they stay here a tip?
