Catherine Ribero + Alpes

During the 70's, Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes recorded a string of stunning and successful albums, gathering a few plaudits and yearly awards from specialized press, played throughout Europe and even in Latin America and Northern Africa and are now seen as an iconic group of the hippy 70's in France. Their music is rather experimental and hard to define and involves folk, progressive and improvisation. Their use of seldom-seen percuphone and cosmophone (both alpine instruments), their lengthy Poème Non-Epique pieces, Ribeiro's anarchist avant-garde and ecologist lyrics and doomed atmosphere (there is some VdGG feel in their music) made this group a very distinct and very original group that has their own sound…

Born in 1941 and raised on a working-class family, she starts her carreer as an actrice. Her first appearance was in 1963 Jean-Luc Godard's film "Les Carabiniers" where she met Patrice Moullet (acting the principal role). It was in 1967 that Moullet, then interested in music, proposed to compose music for her poetry. They formed the band 2 BIS (soon to be renamed ALPES) and proved the ideal vehicle for Ribeiro's extraordinary voice, on the seven classic albums they produced together. Ahead of a conventional rock format, their music was a unique amalgam of progressive underground, with vast spacey instrumental passages due to Moullet's home-made instruments (percuphone, cosmophone & orgolia), much improvised weirdness and a strong folk influence.

Un suspense dans la lignée des romans de Ruth Ware ( La Disparue de la cabine n°10) et Michelle Frances ( La Petite amie).
Quatre clients. Un chalet de luxe. Le crime parfait…

Le second livre de Catherine Poulain auteure du Grand marin.
" Le chant glacé et mélodieux de la rivière, sa peur, le poids terrible d'une attente folle entre les remparts des montagnes qui la cernent, mais quelle attente cette épée qu'elle pressent toujours, suspendue dans la nuit des arbres qui l'écrase – sur son cœur blanc, sa tête rousse de gibier des bois. Oh que tout éclate enfin pour que tout s'arrête. "

Master Series is the title of a line of greatest hits albums, released in European countries primarily by PolyGram International, as well as A&M Records, Deram Records, FFRR Records, Mercury Records, and Polydor Records. In addition, some albums were reissued by Universal Music Group under the Universal Masters Collection and Millennium Edition titles.

Des informations historiques et culturelles, des renseignements pratiques, des descriptions de circuits et une sélection d'adresses pour découvrir les départements de l'Isère et des Hautes-Alpes : la vallée du Vénéon, le massif de Belledonne, le Vercors, le pays du Buëch et le massif du Dévoluy ainsi que le val d'Allos. …

Élisabeth Calandry s'empare avec bonheur de ces contes issus du collectage de Charles Joisten : elle y ajoute ses couleurs et nous fait redécouvrir l'étrange univers des êtres fantastiques des Alpes. Les musiques de Nathalie Berbaum sont variées, les arrangements drôles et si c'est le violon qui montre le chemin, c'est parce que depuis presque deux siècles, il demeure avec la malice la meilleure arme quand on croise le loup? Les bergères, vous les connaissez …