Red Cardell


Red Cardell is a Breton rock band that mixes Breton music with rock, folk, blues, world music and chanson réaliste.
The group was formed in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Riou, Jean-Michel Moal and Ian Proërer. With the departure of the latter in 2001, Manu Masko became the drummer. He left in 2015.
In 2011, the band added Mathieu Péquériau as a new member, some months before Jean-Michel Moal had to take a break from the group due to health problems. He returned in 2015.
From 2012 to 2015, the band was joined on stage by two additional musicians : Ronan Le Bars, and Pierre Stéphan, and had a joint show with Bagad Kemper. During that same time period, the five band members were involved in The Celtic Social Club, alongside Jimme O'Neill, leader of and bassman Richard Puaud.
In December 2015, Jean-Pierre Riou and Jean-Michel Moal, the 1992 co-founders of the group, joined forces again after four years of separation. In this new collective, they are accompanied by the multi-instrumentalist Pierre Sangra, partner of the band since the album Naître, and drummer Hibu Corbel.
They are considered by music critics to be one of the best Breton bands of this time, in the footsteps of Alan Stivell and Dan Ar Braz, precursors of the Celtic wave of the seventies, having learned to combine rock and contemporary music with traditional music.

Biography

Red Cardell, one of the most famous bands from Brittany,, is essentially a live band. Formed in Quimper in 1992, since then has recorded sixteen albums including five live and played at nearly two thousand concerts all over Europe and North America, including famous stages in France such as: Vieilles Charrues Festival, Eurockéennes, Les Francofolies de La Rochelle, Printemps de Bourges, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Le Zénith Nantes Métropole and Paris-Bercy Arena. They also played in Ukraine, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, West Indies, United States and Canada.
– 2014
– Rudolstad 2015
Unclassifiable, their music is mainly a mix of Breton music and also of Slavic, Latin or berber music with blues, rock, folk, punk and French realistic song and even more recently cheered up with electro and hip hop elements. The lyrics are inspired by the style of writing of poets and authors like Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Boris Vian or Jacques Prévert. It is these rich influences that follows the specific Jean-Pierre Riou poetic, turned to melancholy. They define themselves as a popular music band open to the world.
Besides their collaboration with French, Breton, Berber and Ukrainian musicians, they also have performed with British or American musicians, either on records or live. These artists include: Jimme O'Neill, Dr Das, Dave Pegg, Tanya Morgan, I.C. Will, Juan Sebastian Larobina and Winston McAnuff.
As an independent rock band from their beginnings, Red Cardell released their first album Rouge in 1993, followed by a nonstop tour for several years, sharing the stage with Doctor Feelgood, The Fleshtones, Noir Désir and La Mano Negra Manu Chao orchestra.
In 1999, hundreds of concerts and three albums later, the new tracks of Rock'n roll Comédie are recorded in Belgium with former Black Sabbath Producer/Engineer Mike Butcher at the helm, also known for his work with Marvin Gaye.
In the period of the three albums Naître, Le Banquet de cristal and La Fête au village Red Cardell recorded and performed on stage with many guests including Dan Ar Braz, Miossec, Yann Tiersen or Thomas Fersen. Along with Oleg Skripka and Gourtopravci, a female traditional vocal choir, they regularly travelled across Ukraine for concert tours from Kharkiv to Donetsk, Lviv or Yalta and several times in Kiev with two exceptional performances for festival, in front of tens of thousands of spectators at Maidan independence square.
In 2010, their album Soleil Blanc is recorded and mixed by the English producer Clive Martin and co-produced by the French musician Stéfane Mellino, singer and guitarist of Les Négresses Vertes. On this album which shows a more folk and blues trend and also flirts with Zydeco, Rockabilly or Charleston, the band is supported by the Michel Delage brass section. The song Comme une pierre qui roule is a tribute to Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone and the song Robert Johnson to the American blues singer and guitarist.
Spring 2012, their album Falling in love, recorded in France, was mixed in New York city by the American sound engineer Ariel Borujow at Stadium Red studio in Harlem. The album was awarded as best progressive edge album of the Year by the Indie acoustic project, in 2013.
In 2014, with the Fest-rock show, they represented Brittany alongside Bagad Kemper for La Nuit de la Bretagne French tour, including a date at Bercy Arena in Paris. In April, they announced their participation as the new creation of the Festival des Vieilles Charrues for its 2014 edition : The Celtic Social Club, a supergroup of seven Breton musicians and others, which includes Jimme O'Neill, Ronan Le Bars and the three members of Red Cardell. Within the new band they recorded their first album released in June. We also see Red Cardell in July in the other side of Pyrénées on the stage of the main Celtic festival of Spain in Ortigueira in Galicia and December 31 in Cyprus to end the year.
In February 2015, they began a French tour within The Celtic Social Club and also announced venues in Germany, Switzerland and three gigs in New York City, invited by the association of Breton diaspora of Big Apple to celebrate the Feast of Saint-Yves, National Day of Brittany.
In early October 2015, Manu Masko announced his departure from Red Cardell. A few days later Jean-Pierre Riou precise continue the adventure and announces a new album for March 2016 co-authored with Jean-Michel Moal.
Jean-Pierre Riou and Jean-Michel Moal, co-founders of the group in 1992, meet again after four years of separation. They are accompanied for this new formation by multi-instrumentalist Pierre Sangra, partner since the album Naître in 2006, and drummer Hibu Corbel.

Current members



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Discography

YearTitleNotes
1993RougeStudio
1996DouleurStudio
19973Studio
2000Rock'n'roll ComédieStudio
2002La ScèneLive performance
2003CardelectroExperimental
2003Sans fardStudio
2004Bal à l'OuestLive performance
2006NaîtreStudio
2008Le Banquet de cristalBest of with guests
2009La Fête au villageLive performance with guests
2010Soleil BlancStudio
2012Falling in LoveStudio
2013Running in ParisLive performance
2013Fest-RockLive performance with Bagad Kemper
2014Gwenn-ha-duConcept album with Bagad Kemper
2016Un Monde tout à l'enversStudio

YearTitleNotes
2014The Celtic Social ClubStudio with guests
2015Unplugged New York CityLive performance