Violon Bidon!
Les Musiciens et la Grande Guerre, Vol. 20
Claude Ribouillault and his band, with instruments from the trenches
Violon Bidon!
Les Musiciens et la Grande Guerre, Vol. 20
Claude Ribouillault and his band, with instruments from the trenches
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About
Musical instruments diverting helmets and cannisters to turn them into violins, mandolins… Songbooks, little printed images, soldiers' newsrags… These hitherto neglected items and sources, conveyed by older or else trendy tunes, humorously at times, bring back to us the daily life, murderous happenstance, geographical separation, the grime and doubts of the soldiers in the Great War. Four 'stage settings' form a frame for the tuneful and musicianly creations of the soldiers in the Great War: mobilization, garnison training and the beginnings of the conflict; the first and second lines, the leaves of absence; the prisoners' camps; the Eastern Front.
Contents and tracklist
Anon: La ballade du Kronprinz
Adolf Spahn: La retraite de Guillaume
William Laurie (1881-1916): The Battle of the Somme
Lucien Boyer: Garde de nuit à l’Yser
Vincent Scotto (1874-1952): Le Bois Bouchot
Sterny: Marmites
Anon: Auf dem Hartmannsweiler Kopfe
Anon: Wie es uns Feldgrauen an der Front ergeht
Anon: L’arrière et l’avant
Albert Arnaud: Tournée de cinéma
Paul Marinier: Au clair de la lune
Anon: It’s a long way to Tipperary
Adhémar Sablon: Chanson de Craonne
Aristide Bruant: Les Éparges
Anon: Les pluies
Anon: Mazurka à Martin
Bénech & Desmoulins: Notre Eden
Anon: Notre captivité
Anon: Sur la montagne de la Picardie
Anon: C’était la guerre
Louis Bousquet: En Cilicie
Anon: Rondeaux gascons
