Denez Pringet - Gortoz a ran
Album - Irvi / also OST "Black Hawk Down"
Denez Prigent - Gwerz Kiev
Album - Sarac'h
The first 10 mins of the movie "Black Hawk Down" sets the mood of the events to unfold on screen... and on the backdrop of the gut wrenching visuals is the haunting voice of Denez Prigent singing "Gortoz a ran" .
Denez Prigent a native of a region in France called Breton ,(AKA Little Britain, as opposed to Great Britain), sings in the ancient celetic brittonic language of Brittiany ,the folk music of the Breton region is known as "gwerz".
In the tradition of gwerz, Denez Prigent writes and sings about dramatic events about which he hears during a travel, a conversation, or through medias. "Gwerz Kiev" relates the "Holodomor", the famine that struck Kiev in the 1930s, with casualties estimated to four million. The picture on the side is of one of the many monuments constructed all across Ukraine in memory of the tragedy. .
