La Nòvia - Maintes fois

French hurdy-gurdy player Yann Gourdon and his friends started out playing a variation on medieval Celtic folk.
The La Novia collective released three albums. The 56-minute piece of Maintes Fois (june 2019 - 2020) is their masterpiece, a colossal, almost symphonic blend of Tibetan chanting, LaMonte Young-ian droning minimalism, shamanic psychedelia, tribal drumming, and so on that provisionally peaks in a dissonant cacophony of strings. At 17:30 it resumes like a Tibetan fanfare which soons becomes a stately dense metronomic "om". The cacophony of bagpipe and percussive sounds gets louder and faster, drowning the chant. An epileptic crescendo, a sort of demonic dance, eventually leads to the droning agony of the end. The music was performed by Gourdon, guitarist Guilhem Lacroux, violinists Perrine Bourel and Basile Bremaux, banjo player Antoine Cognet, hurdy-gurdy player Yvan Etienne, bagpipe player Pierre-Vincent Fortunier and singer Clement Gauthier.

Tracklist:

01. .Maintes fois 00:00

_____ Country ____France (Le Puy-en-Vlaye / Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
. . . . Genres. . . .Occitan Folk Music, Avant-Folk
. . . Publisher. . .La Nòvia [NÒV021] (France)
. . .Date of album release. . .09.03.2020
Code, type of rip . . FLAC (*.flac), tracks