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SEVEN REIZH was undoubtedly the most important event in 2001, as far as French Progressive rock is concerned. This is actually the first line-up from Brittany to record a rock-opera in their original language ! “Strinkadenn’ Ys” is the name of this trip of initiation that recalls the Enora pilgrimages, in a quest for their own identity. Under the leadership of concept inventor and lyricist Gérard Le DORTZ as well as guitarist Claude MIGNON (Fan of the great Steve ROTHERY), can be found singer BLEUNWENN (TRI YANN) as well as the MEVEL brothers (KAD), the BAGAD PENHARS (For a short participation), Thierry CHASSANG and kabyl singer Farid AĎT SIAMEUR. Thanks to first class production and great musicians, the music performed in this epic fresco proves to be matched by the marked ambition and means used to create it: sumptuous and symphonic. Those musicians’ true Progressive rock ideas blends perfectly with Celtic and traditional influences from a region with a strong identity, so much that we could even imagine that the instrumental MARILLION of the FISH period came to get some ideas around Brittany. Mike OLDFIELD and GENESIS also seem to be two definite influences of this epic story loved by the critics...