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Malicorne was founded in 1973 by French singer/guitarist Gabriel Yacoub and Marie Yacoub, after having recorded an album together. With several other musicians, Malicorne released approximately 10 albums between 1973 and 1986.

The band’s speciality was traditional French folk music, played with a more progressive format. Besides guitars and bass, the musician’s played a wide variety of instruments, with focus on early wind and string instruments (crumhorns, recorders, violins, rebecs, dulcimers, harmoniums, autoharp, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy, etc.) and rich, distinctive vocal harmonies.

Earlier albums had mostly percussion and little drums, but starting with 1979’s “Le Bestiare” (“The Animals”), the band maintained a drummer to beef up the sound. Another new member was Brian Gulland of the band Gryphon, who joined for the recording of this album.
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  • MusicMagic77

    <3 a lovely band!

    18 Aug 2012 Reply

  • silvertree

    "Le jardinier du couvent" from Malicorne's fourth album is.... astounding !

    15 Nov 2011 Reply

  • Jan_Butters

    <3

    27 Mar 2011 Reply

  • malize

    Bien pour danser...

    20 Feb 2011 Reply

  • SunPop

    Un groupe de chansons traditionnelles médiévales qui font honneur à la France. Ca devient trop rare et c'est beau.

    23 Dec 2010 Reply

  • Aralot

    best

    9 Sep 2010 Reply

  • malize

    Grace à Malicorne je put connaître à l´époque le meilleur folk français.

    3 Aug 2010 Reply

  • tsintskaro

    This is a long shot, buit can anyone tell me the name of the artist who painted the cover art for Malicorne 4 Nous Sommes?

    7 Jul 2010 Reply

  • enriquetabique

    Hi, I recommend that you check out the An Danzza band http://www.last.fm/music/An+Danzza (quality neo-folk/medieval/celtic) If you liked An Danzza's music, please add the band to your library. Please also note that the the band's music is available for free download. Thank you

    26 Feb 2010 Reply

  • Jan_Butters

    mmm

    18 Feb 2010 Reply

  • Myrna4Loy

    Diese Gruppe nehm ich gern, um zu testen, ob eine musikseite wirklich was taugt. last fm hat, wie erwartet, nur eine kleine auswahl aus ihrer frühphase und einen schwachen sampler. sehr viel stärker sind ihre beiden platten aus den spät70ern: extraordinaire tour de france und le bestiaire.

    21 Oct 2009 Reply

  • NitrousMcBread

    YES

    15 Feb 2009 Reply

  • French_Quarter

    Ahahaha. Just remembered this band I grew up with... That tape was being played in my mom's car when I was younger... Need this so much. Back in the days...

    8 Dec 2008 Reply

  • gaia1968

    great

    14 Oct 2008 Reply

  • shinefully

    lovely

    31 Aug 2008 Reply

  • Shlublu

    They actually use old instruments, that's great. My favourite is Vox. "Daniel mon fils" as "les chanteurs de sornettes".

    22 May 2008 Reply

  • gaelledavid

    Malicorne is really the basic material for somebody who wants to be introduced in the french traditional world

    22 Dec 2007 Reply

  • glendarian

    Personally I tend to prefer their earlier albums to the later ones, but other than that the biog gives a good description of this great band.

    12 Nov 2007 Reply

  • Odonell

    awesome.

    4 Nov 2007 Reply

  • peredodue

    Great Folk Prog !

    29 Jun 2007 Reply
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