Malicorne (band)
| Malicorne (band) | |
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Malicorne performing in September 2012
in Château-Thierry, France
(L-R: Gilles Chabenat, Marie Sauvet, David Pouradier Duteil, Gabriel Yacoub)
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Paris, France |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 5 September 1973–22 July 1989 15 July 2010(unique show) 27 November 2011–present |
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| Associated acts | Gabriel Yacoub, Marie de Malicorne, La Confrérie des Fous, Le Quatuor |
| Website | Gabriel Yacoub Official website |
| Members |
Gabriel Yacoub Marie Sauvet Yannick Hardouin Gilles Chabenat David Pouradier Duteil Nicolaïvan Mingot |
| Past members | See Past members section below |
Malicorne are a French folk and electric folk band formed in September 1973 by Gabriel Yacoub, Marie Yacoub (now Marie Sauvet), Hughes de Courson and Laurent Vercambre. They flourished in the 1970s, broke up three times in the 1980s but re-formed twice in the early 2010s and are currently touring and working on a new studio album.
Gabriel Yacoub and Marie Yacoub formed Malicorne on 5 September 1973 (naming it after the town of Malicorne in north-western France, famous for its porcelain and faience). For two years, Gabriel had been a member of Alan Stivell's band, playing folk-rock based on Breton music. He sang and played acoustic guitar, banjo and dulcimer with Stivell, appearing on his 1972 À l'Olympia breakthrough (live) album and his 1973 Chemins de Terre (studio) album, before leaving at the end of Summer 1973 to form his own band, intending to popularise French music the way Stivell had popularised Breton music. Since several of their albums are called simply Malicorne it had become the custom to refer to them by number, even though no number appears on the cover at all.
Released in October 1974, Malicorne 1 consisted of the four founder members, that is the Yacoubs, Hughes de Courson and Laurent Vercambre. The combination of electric guitar, violin, dulcimer, bouzouki and female vocalist places them in the electric folk genre. These four musicians were, between them, masters of twelve instruments. Their first four albums (one album released each Fall from 1974 to 1977) consisted of mostly traditional French folk songs, with, per album, one or two songs written by Gabriel Yacoub, one or two instrumentals and a few music and lyrics borrowed from some Canadian versions of the songs and instrumentals. They occasionally sang group harmonies a cappella. On Malicorne 4, they were lastingly joined by a fifth member, Olivier Zdrzalik, on bass, percussion and vocals.
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