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A new album of traditional music of the Channel Islands - Musiques traditionnelles des îles anglo-normandes - will be launched later this month offering a modern twist on some oral traditions.
The band Lihou was launched by the association La Loure from Normandy in 2017, aiming at creating a present-day rendition of traditional Channel Islands music.
That project has now reached a fruitful moment with the first album ready for a wider audience at Candie Museum from 19:00 on Thursday 26 October.
James Dumbleton is one of the musicians involved with Lihou and he said it is a project "very close to my heart".
"It is now time to release that album into the world and I’d love to share this moment with you, encouraging anyone to connect and engage with this project and celebrate what it may hold for the future," he said.
Mr Dumbleton said Lihou represents the live performance component of a larger project led by La Loure and the university of Caen to promote field recordings of music and oral traditions collected in the Channel Islands by various organisations between the late 1930s and the 1980s.
These sound collections, kept in libraries and archives in France and the United Kingdom, had never been gathered in one place before and most had never been heard by the wider public, locally or in France.
A book with a CD of traditional music and songs was published in 2018 as part of La Loure’s 'Sources' collection.
Mr Dumbleton said that book and CD was "a snapshot and introduction to this large body of collections and Lihou was formed to showcase some of these works as a physical act in the form of a band".
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