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Maudite Moisson! Borealis BCD 151, 2003.
Le Vente du Nord is something of a Quebecois supergroup--it includes former members of such respected (even legendary) traditional and neotraditional ensembles as La Bottine Souriante, Ad Vielle Que Pourra, Montcorbier, and Matapat--but Nicolas Boulerice, Benoit Bourque, Olivier Demers, and Bernard Simard take an approach to the folk music of French Canada that is different from that taken by any of those groups. Le Vente du Nord's approach is simultaneously unique and steeped in tradition: the songs they sing come mostly from historical sources, but their arrangements are sometimes explicitly jazzy (as ...