I need fresh air

Yes, to be honest, I need fresh air. Being quite a lot with gigs the last 3 months, I started writng new songs. I locked myself i the studio for days, but, It was not the good way to proceed. After a few weeks and on reflection, i stopped. then driving spade, rake, wheelbarrow, sickle and inspiration came back again, breezing my middle Brittany wet wind.

I can tell you it was the first but the least time to play that way ...

Facing a screen, jumping from my DAW to my mic, editing, I love that, but a digital atmosphere must be break regularly. Good tip to myself.

Dom DufF & Co / May 2010 @ Ty Tele

album ROC'H

New cd ROC'H is now available. 12 songs, including A. Stivell song (Brezhoneg 'Raok), a 70's international hit.
You can purchase in DISCS label above.

Roc'h (Rock), is a complete studio album, by Boutou label.



Dom : voice, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, mandolin
Nicola Hayes : Fiddle
Dom Bott : bass
David Seite : percussions
Mourad Aid Abdelmalek : drums
Huw Rees : drums
Patrick Peron : piano

October news

October is dry, October is passing, October, an 80's Rennes cold wave group of Frank Darcel still listening. In October I dove also into the music of this Rennes group that I really like: Santa Cruz. And our songs are coming along, we are attempting to dress them up in the best way letting coarseness of technology that can at times spoil the foundation of the ideas. But we are not stopping at attempting simple things nor more audacious. I have taken out some old material with which we are trying some things: my first amp a Champ fender 78 that is so hot. A mandolin, a harmonica...Old-school. Will I be nostalgia?
I'm going to continue to listen to Franck Turner, Sam Karpienia, The Big Pink, or still Langhorne Slim, all the new stuff from October that I really like.

Rock in Brittany

Famous Rennes based punck label MASS PROD, edit a breton rock bands compilation call 'Rock e Breizh'.
Featuring 20 bands from Brittany (Rock, Pop, Punck, Metal) : great material from 70' to nowadays. Listen here to the mythic 70' band STORLOK, or famous EV. also young bands : Anken, Trouz an Noz.
There's also my song Kig ha Fars in this opus. Is it rock ? why not.
You can purchase this cd on : MASS PROD Label

cd [e-unan]

Hi all,
The new cd is now release. In a complete SOLO & LIVE mode, featuring 11 songs, me and my guitar, and/or bodhran, and/or e-bow ! The idea was a challenge for me, and some of the songs have been writen and composed a few days before the recording performance in a few venues.
At the moment, I have no clue how venues recording will be different, but, it will be a good image of what I'm use to offer to the audience, keeping emotion and/or energy ! That's I want to tell you.
You can buy here by paypal: 17 € including postage.

In advance, I thank those who help me to release this and pre-orderd there copies. You where 150 helping me for that ! Distribution is also available in shops (France, Switzerland, Belgium) and through cdbaby. Digital distribution is on discography
page.

01- Aelig Gwenn (White Fairy)
02- Kiger San Wazeg (Sant Goazeg butcher)
03- Oad an aod (Seaside age)
04- An dañs veur (The big dnace)
05- Kig Ha Fars
06- Peñse ar C'henavo (Kenavo' wracke)
07- Laouen (Happy)
08- Straed an amann (Butter street)
09- War bont an Aber (On Aber bridge)
10- Kenatchao (Goodby)
11- Se Si Hi Eo (It's she)

Breton style of music

A friend of mine, asks me about "the chant/rap that I hear you do. what is the Breton style of music.."
During a few days, this, disturbs me. And I could now, maybe say : I am not influence with rap, no. Yes, my chant is sometimes speed. It comes, maybe, from the traditional breton beat call "kan ha diskan"(call and response) flowing all over here. I am not in the known of "kan ha diskan"; I sing 5 or 6 traditional songs, at least. With evidence now, my songwriting is somewhere roots in K&D, but I could say, mostly roots in north cost tribal pagan rythms, It could be the reason, sometimes words flow hard and strong, hammering the beats.

Guitar

and now a brand new tool. After being for years, buying guitars in 5 minutes, I 've been for 3 years seeking for the best instrument I need; here.

the link to Alvarez yairi site. I 've been playing my first Alvarez 15 years ago, and now, I need a new one. So, I go on with AY.

Recording and ... news from here,

This Winter months has found us buffering ourselves against the chill winds and hugely inclement weather in center Brittany by holing up once more in home studio and solo gigs, under the guidance of the erstwhiles Manu Bergot and Gil Kersulec and the lovely slice of humanity that is Dom Bott.

We’re about five/six more live solo gigs away from having ten finished songs, with a view to an eleven/twelve song album, and mixing (by Pascal Lamour at BNC) is pencilled in for the month beginning july, so expect some new songs shortly after that .

At the same time, I've playing 10 school gigs for breton speakers children (great atmosphere and audience), swinging from schools to gigs, switching on english/breton/french from Ireland, to England, back home ... and still dubbing movies into breton,what a fun, amazing !

cd LAGAN

Brand new cd LAGAN is out now. Produce by BNC and distribution by COOP BREIZH and CD BABY. recording by Pascal Lamour and mix by Eric Trochu. Artwork by myself .







12 songs :
- Son Faro
- Miz du
- Kig ha fars
- Hei ! Soner
- Job al lonker
- Kenatchao
- Marc'h Arzur
- Pagan Camp
- Kertrouz
- E penn ar skaon
- An nor c'hlaz
- 'Tra da lavar

Dom DufF : song, guitars, bodhran
Pascal Lamour : keyboards, gaida, saxo koad, indie harmonium, biniou, bombard
Herri Loquet : drums, udu, cajon
Dominique Braud : bass
Nicola Hayes : fiddle
and vocals : Julie Murphy, Nolwenn Korbell

cd STRAED AN AMANN

My first album is now available (Butter street)on the labelBNC and distribution by COOP BREIZH
10 songs in breton language recroded at BNC studio, Vannes, Brittany :

- Ha deoc'h (For you)
- Straed an amann (Butter street)
- Gerioù berr (Little words)
- en nec'h (In heaven)
- E Park Finn (Theme park)
- Setu ar vuhez (That's life)
- C'hwezh Kerlosket (Odeur brûlée)
- Bossen an Arvor (Arvor plague)
- Deiz pe zeiz (Someday)
- Friko 'vo (It will feast)

featuring :
Pascal Lamour (gaida, saxo koat, keyboards, samples), Ronan O'snodaigh (bodhran) et Andy Jones (voice)