A soundtrack (or sample of, in addition to the not so far removed new wave of post punk, e.g. Editors' Blood) to a sublime summer on France's Atlantic seaboard - Dan Ar Braz's intuitive and heavenly "celtic jungle" on Evit Ar Barz, co-opts both Capercaillie's Karen Matheson and the superb Bagad Kemper - on the same album, this same combination also creates a more traditional yet incredibly moving, sensitive and soaring tribute to the late Altan founder Frankie Kennedy on "Left in Peace"; Kevrenn Alre (Auray's bagad) are one of the best pipe bands around and their contribution here shows how simultaneously modern and ancient these ensembles can sound (get this disk or either of the Bagad de Lann Bihoue's Sony discs for further proof). Patrick Lemou is a celebrated Breton violin/fiddle player and I could have picked virtually anything from "Kalon Koat" to illustrate why. Cabaret Voltaire in the Derwent Valley and Laibach at Rennes never seemed that incongrous to ! me and, in the last few years I have begun to realise why, and I suppose David Tibet is another who saw the connection between real folk and industrial....