Tam Nà Vulinn was born in Rennes, Bretagne, playing Folkmusic but not
only... The Irish accents of the fiddle set the atmosphere for a
moment. Then, comes a swinging drums and vibes accompagnement, followed
by chords of jazz-funk guitar. It starts with a trip in Ireland,
continues in America, sometimes crossing Eastern. Irish and jazz tunes,
traditionel and modern melt, complete and answer to each other.
With four wide open ears, Tam Nà Vulinn dresses the Folk with modern
and colourfull clothes.


Since his creation in 2003, the main goal of the quartet is
to make Irish reels swinging and to produce a funky taste to jigs. With
their album "vestibule" you'll maybe think taht Georges Brassens and
Marcus Miller have family in Dublin.



Have a good vestibulation.


"This Breton trio have an experienced well connected artistry talent of
improvising with themes from Irish folk and folkrock, a rather
independent form, which easily switches its flavours to
jazz-folkrock/jazz and even occasionally jazz swing. Each musician is
able to make the same switch in their inspirations, something which
makes this combination work so well.

The 5-string violin
improvisations (Baptiste Argouarc'h) can be, just slightly or more
focused Irish folk or a bit more stylish jazz (a bit like Grapelli). I
also noticed a few occasional string arrangements. Also the guitars
(Alexis Amette) switch from time to time, can be even rocking, a bit
funky, are able to lead and as well as follow. Just once I also noticed
a guitar like kalimba rhythm ??? And also the percussionist (Mathieu
Guyon) delivers beautiful at times Mal Waldron like flavours on his
vibraphone. As a vibraphonist he most often is jazz inspired, while his
percussion can handle lots of different moods and ideas. I even noticed
ones ticking rhythms imitating an Irish jig on a bell-like sound.

Great and convincing music."

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