Le CD "Cloche-Pied" du Trio LAm est toujours disponible via triolam@free.fr, lors des bals et concerts et sur AlbumTrad.

Chronique du CD dans TradMagazine n°136 : Envie de danser à la maison les soirs où il n'y a pas bal? Alors il faut vite découvrir le CD de Trio LAm. Ce groupe de bal folk basé à Paris est fort de ses diverses origines : Mathilde Lacaze, au violon, est originaire du Quercy, où elle a appris la musique traditionnelle. Antoine Leclercq est un fin guitariste rodé à la musique irlandaise dans les pubs parisiens. Pour clore le triangle musical, Ludovic Rio, à l'accordéon chromatique, vient du pays de Loudéac, où son adolescence a été bercé par la musique de fest-noz. Dès lors, pas si étonnant de voir avec quelle aisance les trois jeunes musiciens s'emparent et se régalent d'un répertoire très varié, pour le plus grand plaisir de nos oreilles et de nos pieds : bourrées de l'Artense ou d'Auvergne, mazurkas, polskas, valses, mais aussi rondes du Quercy, toujours finement arrangées, nous entraînent, à cloche-pied, dans un voyage musical dansé. Sans compter que les trois musiciens se sont entourés d'invités, dont la chanteuse Marianne Evezard. Le violoniste Basile Brémaud, en compagnie de Mathilde, rend un bel hommage violonistique à la bourrée d'Auvergne. Le banjoïste Olivier Sulpice agrémente quelques pistes de sa bonne humeur et de son énergie musicale. En prime, la pochette, réalisée par le dessinateur Olivier Chéné et dédiée à la danse, est réussie. Alors, en attendant de les voir sur scène, un bal folk à la maison en compagnie du Trio LAm, ça vous tente? Anne Girard

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Mathilde Lacaze : violin

An expansive premature child, young Mathilde Lacaze was already showing an early aptitude for communication when following organ lessons, in her home village of Labathude, since she spent most of the lesson talking rather than playing...

At the age of 9, when asked by her parents to choose which instrument she would learn at the local music school in Figeac, she goes for violin - just to be allowed to touch one. But, as an already strong tempered personality, she firmly refuses to practice any ranges on that new instrument. This will lead her to learn with Quercy fiddle master Xavier Vidal, who will become her mentor, and let the traditional style and repertoire of the Quercy area creep slowly but surely into her playing.

After some years of traverse flute and then back to the violin, she discovers in Toulouse the folk trad scene, and it is a shock: overdose of festivals, dance, and jam session of traditional music with young Toulousian musicians. She will play in the ball group "Los d'Enloc", and will even venture on the symphonic music in the symphonic orchestra for young people in Munich.

End of 2004, she moves to Paris, this is the beginning of the collaboration with Antoine, to set up a duet and play for animate the folk balls of Paris area.

Distinguishing feature : Mathilde never stopped chatting more than she plays. And she does play a lot.


Antoine Leclercq : guitar

Deprived guitar player from a Picardy rock band, Antoine Leclercq operates in the early nineties a reconversion plan which will lead him to a new career in the Irish traditional music.

Antoine practises since in an extensive way the guitar and the mandolin, within numerous more or less informal Irish music bands and of course, at many inescapable "jam sessions" in the pubs of Paris or Ireland.

Meeting with Mathilde will broaden his musical horizon to the other forms of traditional music, where he can roguishly slide some few good old rock guitar riffs of his own into Quercy traditional tunes.

Distinguishing feature : very good rhythmic support when kept at a safe distance from the bar. Otherwise, will play chords which do not appear in the manuals.


Ludovic Rio : chromatic button accordion

Young Ludovic Rio, native from Plémet near Loudéac (Brittany), starts the accordion at 10, and soon becomes very popular at the local "balls musette" where he learns very fast to make the dancers swing - which will be for him a school of rhythm and harmony.

Ludovic Rio has more than an arrow in his quiver, and several ear-witnesses swear they have heard him play on numerous occasions the tuba and the marimba in the Plémet brass band. And,according to a number of indirect testimonies, he would occasionally play some jazz on the slide trombone.

Since the bend of the 21st century, Ludo has been on the loose quite particularly in Breton music, playing the accordion with the groups of festou-noz les Ravageous, la Bande à Benny and Kafe Koefet.

It is in an improvised jam session that he meets Mathilde and Antoine, he soon became the third musketeer required to make a true trio!

Distinguishing feature : outstanding arranger, sensitive and eclectic player, he can switch without warning from a traditional bourrée to a rumba version of musette standard "la Java Bleue".

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