Tam na vulinn
Album : Vestibule
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.
Baptiste Argouarc'h
Born in St Nazaire, Baptiste Argouarc'h starts playing classical violin when he was 6, for 9 years. Then he joined the city of Mirecourt in wich he did violin making studies. Since this moment he dedicated the most of his time to Irish fiddling and created Tam Nà vulinn 5 years later, leaving the violin making school.The fiddlers that influenced him particularly are Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes and Frankie Gavin. Studying their technics in an autodidact way, he started to write his own compositions.
He leaves now in Brussels for 5 years and enjoys also musically the very large melting pot this city offers. Thus, he discovered new fiddling styles and great artists such as L. Subramaniam, L. Shankar (India), Stéphane Grapelli and Jean Luc Ponty (Jazz). Jazz and Frank Zappa brought a new colour to his compositions that keep anyway something Irish.
For four years in Belgium he joined the Gallician band Camaxe and the Amazigh singer Khalid Izri. He also appeard in bands such as Ialma, Turdus Philomélos or Klezmic Zirkus.
Alexis Amette
Alexis Amette began to learn classical guitar when he was eight. Nevertheless he was mostly interested in traditionnal music. At the age of eleven he started to play in a Fest-Noz band. A few years later he flied to Ireland in wich he discoverd a deep musical culture, playing in many gigs.Back in France, he studied in the conservatory of Rennes, to improve his knowledges in harmony, history, and classical guitar. With the band Bleizi-Noz (Yaouank, Nuit Celtique, Tombées de la nuit...) he did concerts in every part of bretagne.
He met Baptiste on a worldmusic scene. Thanks to his interest for jazz, he arranges the compositions of the group.
Now he's making final project about Jazz in the university of Rennes.
Mathieu Guyon
Mathieu Guyon was born in 1981 and started studying classical percussions in 1986. After a few years in the CNR of Rennes he continued and obtained his musical studies diploma in the ENM of St Malo.At the same time, he participated to musical and danse creations Ladaina and Anatsu. He is the bongosero of the salsa band Tumbao Na'Ma' , composes and arranges with Tam Nà Vulinn. Recently he joined the singer Vendredi and playd with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Bretagne.
Very active these 5 last years, he played with many artists such as Gilles Servat, Gérard Delahaie, Nino Danger escalante, Xavier Lugué, Juan Baute, Yvan Tamayo, Barbaro.
