Le Vent Du Nord
As American’s gear up for the 4th of July festivities, Canada gets ready to celebrate Quebec City’s 400th Anniversary. As with any celebration there should be music and some of this this year is being provided by Le Vent du Nord (literally translated as Wind of The North). I had never heard of them before but as soon as I got home this morning after hearing them on Morning edition I loaded up the NPR Music player and ordered a CD.
This foursome is fabulous. With a variety of instruments from guitar, mandolin, fiddle, piano, accordion, acoustic bass, hurdy-gurdy and foot-tapping board, they make music that gets into your soul. You can hear three complete songs from them and a wonderful interview on the NPR Site.
You can sample several tracks from three albums on their bilingual website. One of the nicest things for those of us who don’t speak French is under the music tab there is a lyrics section with English translations. I am sure none of these songs would song quite the same in English, but that is a different story. I personally find the translation completely unnecessary when it comes to enjoying the music. Like I said this is music that gets into your soul, and if it doesn’t you are either dead or a heartless tone deaf bastard.
Even more about Le Vent du Nord can be found on their MySpace page, including full vesions of several more songs off all their albums. All in all this is a fabulous band with wonderful soul stirring music that you just need to listen to. With mixes of not just French Canadian music, bur with Irish-Celtic and Native American influences you just can’t go wrong. Give their full songs a listen, see them if you can and as always support independent musicians whenever you can.
I head Le Vent Du Nord first on NPR’s Morning Edition broadcast from WMUB in Oxford, Ohio.
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