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Musical Goals Paula: What are your musical goals as Cordes en Folie; what do you hope to achieve musically?
Pierre: To be original. I don’t know if original is the right word, but to keep growing in
the direction that we have created, going for a unique sound with the vielle and the
drums. We’re trying to keep this direction of being creative as much as we can. We
don’t try to be fidèle, purists. We don’t rely on one tradition; we don’t want to play
traditional Middle Eastern music or French. We use all these instruments, the
possibilities, our skills, to create something which is our own.
André: For example, we’ll use an old French traditional dance from the Middle Ages,
and we’ll use an Arabic rhythm to play it. So all of a sudden it’s a whole new piece. It’s
a fusion of rhythms and approaches. So that’s the goal of the group really, to develop a
very unique sound so if people hear us on the radio, they’ll say ‘Oh, I’ve heard these guys
before.’ Now it’s a matter of spreading it -- another goal is to tour as much as we can.
Pierre: To find our own expression, to express ourselves as artists, as musicians within
this trio.
Paula: Most of your music are your own compositions. When you compose is that pretty
well a group effort?
André: So far it’s been somebody’s got an interesting tune and plays it and the other guys
say ‘that’s neat’ and then we see what we can do with it. Pierre and I have gotten
together a few times to collaborate on things like lyrics. That’s another goal of the group,
is to do a few more vocals. The majority of our performance is instrumentals but we are
starting to do a few more vocals.
Pierre: One of our goals as well is not to be classified as francophone or anglophone
because even if it’s in French, we try to play more with the music of the language.
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