Rock & Reel [CA-Import]

La Bottine Souriante | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: CA-Import
• Label: EMI Music Canada
• ASIN: B00002CEZO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #595,834 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Tracks: 1. Il Reel du Forgeron :: The Blacksmith's Reel 2. Les Trois Cavaliers :: The Three Horsemen 3. Arin Quebec 4. Chanson de Mathurin :: Mathurin's Song 5. Medley des Eboulements :: Landslide Village Medley 6. Ciel D'Automne :: Autumn Sky 7. YoYo-Verret 8. Suite Metisse 9. Un Air Si Doux :: An Air So Sweet 10. Alice au Pays D'Arto (Prelude) 11. Alice au Pays D'Arto (Waltz) 12. Ami de la Bouteille :: Friend Of The Bottle 13. Margot Fringue. UPC 724384744625

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ROCK AND REEL - BOTTINE SOURIANTE, January 4, 2000

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Dennis R. Desrosiers (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock & Reel (Audio CD)

ROCK AND REEL by La Bottine Souriante is a must-have for lovers of "world music". Their offerings can be loosly categorized as Celtic in origin but with its own energy and modernism.

This 9 member Montréal based band takes the traditional Musique Québecoise to new heights. Brass, percussion, reeds, etc are perfectly blended into the traditional gigues and reels so popular in the French speaking sections of Canada.

You just can't sit still while this CD is on. To attend their concerts and be stuck in seats while the music is being performed is sheer torture. This is dance music par excellence! Even the lullaby-like "Ciel d'automne" demands your attention.

This, their 10th CD, combines their talents with 3 guest "World Music" performers. Their recent PBS show will help their popularity in the USA.

French lyrics are translated. This program is equally divided between vocal and isntrumental selections.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditional, modern, reverent and irreverent!, December 27, 1999

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Peter Blue (Oneonta, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock & Reel (Audio CD)

Irish, Quebecois and original reels with horns and a back beat like nothing you've ever heard. Take natalie McMaster, Eileen Ivers and give them driving percussion and a horn section and you're close. This is La Bottine Souriante's tenth album. Translated, La Bottine Souriante means "The smiling boot a reference to their percussion and drive which is centered around traditional Quebec-style foot-tapping. And the singing! You don't need French to want to sing along, but it helps. The one album I kept in the work truck to play all summer; it was played every day, from the dump to the trails, to the beach and back again. I loved it, the college-aged summer help loved it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Canned Is Grand but Live Is To Die For, December 21, 1999

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mrpennysworth "mrpennysworth" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock & Reel (Audio CD)

One sultry summer day in Central Park, this band ambled onto Summerstage, murmured a few insoucient remarks about Les Yorkers Nouveau and proceeded to light up the stage with an inferno of world music. They cooked up a gumbo of cajun, Irish jig, Brazilian samba, jazz and traditional Quebecois - and that was just the first tune. Doc Martens turned magically into "laughing booties" and no one could stop from dancing. These guys are unbelievably good. Like nothing you have ever heard. But please please please, oh Amazon gods of e-commerce, go find their live CDs, like "En Spectacle". This group was meant to invade your living room for a PARTY.