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Please note!
Most of our CDs have been imported from Europe or Asia. They are not all shrink-wrapped, and I am not going to con you by wrapping them here just to make you think they have been sterilized in America. I guarantee that the CDs and the contents are all brand new and in perfect condition. Whenever I can, I use recycled shipping materials. They may not look as pretty on the outside, but they save money and keep the trash dumps a little bit emptier.
Thanks- Cliff, cdRoots
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Modal Pleinjeu CDs from France
 Tarale - Buff'grol $16.99 (cdRoots# mp-buff)
This quartet from Pitou, France has taken the themes of French work songs and children's music and developed a set of recordings that is at once charming and bizarre. The band uses a lot of reeds (clarinet, saxophones, cornmuse, ivy leaves) along with violin, accordion and raucous vocals. The reeds give a community dance band sound to the tunes at one moment, but can also propel them into avant garde jazz or sparse pop settings of the same folk melodies at another. It is these conflicts that give Tarale its greatest strength; they move from solo fiddle tune to driving ensemble, from gravelly work song to jazz improvisation with a perverse logic. So many bands see their task as taking a crude folk melody and polishing it until it's smooth and shiny. Buff'Grol revel in the sharp edges and find beauty in the rough.
 Auseths - Tenareze $16.99 (cdRoots# mp-111008)
Ténarèze plays traditional music from Auvergne, France. Their 1999 recording Ausèths was inspired by the birds of the region, and offers these four musicians a chance to explore and expand the tradition. Hurdy-gurdy and fiddle, solo and chorale vocals, percussion, clarinet and bass clarinet and many other instruments make for a rich sound.
 Transept - Patrick Bouffard $16.99 (cdRoots# mp-111017)
Bouffard takes his hurdy gurdyout of France, to eastern Europe and the Mediterranean basin. A great cast of musicians joins him, including Anne-Lise Foy (vocals, vielle), Cyril Roche (melodeon), Benoît Mager (bagpipes), Gabriel Fernandez (ud, cajon, saxophone), Francois Arbon and Abdelati el Boussehabi (darabuka, bendir, percussion), Frédéric Paris (voice, melodeon, bagpipes, harmonium), Carlo Rizzo (percussion)
 Quintette De Violons - Drailles $16.99 (cdRoots# mp-111005)
Music of the southern Alps from Dauphine, France
 Revenant de Paris - Trio Patrick Bouffard $16.99 (cdRoots# mp-111029)
Originally released in 1996, this is epic new-folk by Patrick Bouffard (vielle a roue), Anne-Lise Foy (vocals, hurdy gurdy), and Cyril Roche (melodeon), with Benoît Mager (bagpipes) and Frédéric Paris (vocals, melodeon, bagpipes, harmonium).
 Rabaterie - Trio Patrick Bouffard $17.99 (cdRoots# mp-111030)
The trio's second recording - Patrick Bouffard (vielle a roue), Anne-Lise Foy (vocals, hurdy gurdy), and Cyril Roche (melodeon).
 Bateau Doré - La Chavannée $17.99 (cdRoots# mp-111003)
Music from the Bourbonnais of France with Patrick Bouffard (vielle à roue [hurdy gurdy]), Frédéric Paris (vocals, melodeon, bagpipes, harmonium), Eric Elsner (bagpipes, flute), Jean-François "Maxou" Heintzen (vielle a roue), Eveline Paris (vocals), Manu Paris (bagpipes), Marc Peroneille (vielle à roue), Patrick Perot (fiddle, vocals), Catherine Paris (vocals), Camille Daumin (vocals).
 Musique de Haute-Auvergne - Trio DCA $temp out of stock_16.99 (cdRoots# mp-111026)
Music of Avernge played masterfully by the trio of Anne-Lise Foy (vocals, vielle a roue), Hervé Capel (melodeon), and Dominique Paris (bagpipes).
 Une Musique Trad-Urbaine En Centre-France - Tend'm $temp out of stock-16.99 (cdRoots# mp-111036)
Music from Auvergne, central France, focused on the hurdy gurdy or vielle a roue. Musicians: Stéphane Arbon, violincello, guitare; Anne-Lise Foy, vielle (hurdy gurdy), voice; Léonore Grollemund, violoncelle; Laurence Pinchemaille, vielle
 Bastian Contrari - Patrick Vaillant $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# mp-111043)
French mandolinist Patrick Vaillant's unique new recording, joined by a marvelous ensemble including Bijan Chemrrani (percussion for Iran), Serge Pesce (guitar), Benjamin Novarino Giana (voice) and Lucien Massuco
 Tour à tour - Bouffard and Chabenat $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# mp-111040)
The 2006 release by this important French duo: Patrick Bouffard, acoustic hurdy-gurdy and Gilles Chabenat, electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy. Guest artists: Frédéric Paris (Vocals, Melodeon, Bagpipes, Harmonium), Catherine Paris (Vocals), Tobie Miller (Renassance Flute) Listen
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