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Skeud can mean a few things: an image, a shadow, a projection, a recording. All of these could apply here - the silhouettes on the CD cover, the insert which opens out as a poster-sized photo, and of course the disc itself. This is an unusual recording in a few ways, in particular the instrumentation. Bombardes - Breton to the core - are joined by the small Breton bagpipe or biniou kozh, usually playing in the same register as the Northumbrian pipes. Nothing unusual so far, and even the addition of uilleann pipes is no great surprise - the Molard brothers and other Breton musicians adopted Irish pipes decades ago. There is no sign of the biniou bras, the Breton equivalent of the highland bagpipe, but it's hardly a parlour instrument. Instead, Starijenn add the diatonic button accordion, and the full rock band line-up of guitar, bass and drums.
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