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Piece Description
Like the growth in popularity of alt-country and the resurgence of roots music in the United States, France is experiencing its own revival of traditional music. Groups are playing old tunes for new audiences. It's called "trad" music, but it sometimes brings new twists on tradition. La Machine mixes the old and the new to "catch the past" as band leader Julien Barbances eloquently puts it.
Broadcast History
This piece aired December 5, 2006 on The World.
Transcript
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Like the growth of alt-country and the resurgence of roots music in the US, France is experiencing its own revival of traditional music. It?s called ?musique trad??but it sometimes brings new twists on tradition. Independent producer Sarah Elzas met up with a ?trad? group in Paris, called La Machine.
OUTRO: That was produced by independent producer Sarah Elzas, in Paris
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[clapping]
Narrator: It's a Monday night at La Maroquinerie, a club in Paris' Belleville neighborhood.
Barbances [on stage]: Bonsoir, c'est La Machine
'We're La Machine', says Band leader Julien Barbances. He's standing center stage wearing a black scarf wrapped around his head, turban style.
Music: concert
Machine is the feminine form of "machin" which means "thingamagig". It's also the name of a town in central France?which is where the m...
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Timing and Cues
Uploaded piece is 4:44.
Piece actually ends at 4:32, with 12 seconds of music at the end
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mariez-moi | La Machine | Les Rodeurs. | AEPM | 2006 | 00:00 |
| Les R?deurs | La Machine | Les Rodeurs. | AEPM | 2006 | 00:00 |
| Ronde d'Argenton | La Machine | Les Rodeurs. | AEPM | 2006 | 00:00 |
| Le Deserteur | La Machine | Les Rodeurs. | AEPM | 2006 | 00:00 |
| Jean-Baptiste | La Machine | Les Rodeurs. | AEPM | 2006 | 00:00 |
| Golden | La Machine | Les Rodeurs. | AEPM | 2006 | 00:00 |
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Review of To Catch the Past
La Machine is a French roots music band that is re-inventing traditional music in an interesting manner. This well produced feature combines narration and interview clips with plenty of music of bagpipes and hurdy gurdy. The producer provides both an intro and an outro that will enable the piece to used either within a feature based magazine program or incorporated into a music show.