Artist: ReArz
Title: Spered
Year: 2008
Label: Coop Breizh
More info: www.myspace.com/rearzgroup

Five tracks for a project with an international feel: strings, electronics, voices, guitar, accordion, sampling are just some of the elements used for a wonderful fusion that takes the best out of different traditions and looks to the future, in an original mix which cannot be easily compared to other material (apart maybe for Afro Celt Sound System, in “Stone Dance”).
Behind it there is the Arz Nevez project, a string quartet plus guitar, led by Breton Yves Ribis, from Lorient. And the meeting with Italians Maurizio Piazza (co-producer of the whole work with Ribis) and Dj Brahms (which adds sampling to “Stone Dance”). But also some other interesting guests: Bring’s of Monkey B – a French hip-hop combo, in “Utopie” – and world famous Nepalese sitar player Bijaya Vaidya (in “Battle of Gods”).
The only negative bit? The disc is just twenty-five minutes long. When will we see a full album?