Mot-clé Traditional Music

La tempête éclate, après une longue journée de travail dans les champs. Quand la pluie cesse, la vie refait surface, au cœur des terres autrefois stériles. Un fruit éclot et mûrit, résiste aux assauts de la maladie, et devient la pomme qui va donner naissance au cidre. Vient ensuite l’heure de fêter la récolte, trinquer, et célébrer l’amour.

Une équipe de tournage retrace le parcours de Cantacronache, un collectif de sept jeunes ethnomusicologues et activistes italiens, qui, en pleine dictature franquiste, parcoururent clandestinement différents lieux du nord de l’Espagne pour y collecter des chants populaires de résistance. Cette quête périlleuse aboutit en 1961 à la publication d’un livre mythique et bientôt dénoncé par le gouvernement espagnol.

Les guinguettes, ce sont ces cabarets-restaurants, symboles d'une certaine douceur de vivre. Des établissements simples et joyeux initialement installés en région parisienne, en bord de Marne. Bourgeois et prolétaires s'y retrouvaient pour se restaurer et danser. Elles ont connu leur âge d'or à la fin du XIXe siècle avant de disparaître, peu à peu, au profit des boîtes de nuit. Mais, depuis quelques années, les guinguettes sont à nouveau à la mode. Rencontre à Neuilly-sur-Marne avec Philippe Panier de Bellechasse, dit Fifi, à la tête d'un des derniers établissements de ce genre, mais aussi avec une toute nouvelle génération de professionnels qui ont décidé, à Rennes ou encore à Paris, de se réapproprier les guinguettes en les mettant au goût du jour.

Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?

Sawamura Matsugorou is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Sawamura Yuki, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Yuki finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound to love. Tachimura Yuna, who works at a club, hooks him up with a gig to play there as a warm up act. Yuki imbues the sound of his shamisen with his many thoughts and feelings he has of others, still searching for his own sound and his own feelings.

The 1950s were an era filled with desire and aspiration, despite the aftermath of the Korean War. Jeongnyeon, a girl with a gifted voice, embarks on a journey to become the best actor of gukgeuk, or Korean female classical opera, where she encounters competition, solidarity, and growth.

Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.

Pong Lang dancing is Plengpin's favorite thing, but her mother who's a former top Pong Lang dancer always tries to stop her from doing it. Daopradub is planning to make the Pong Lang group of E-Sarn Orn Sorn come back with a new generation of dancers. She's impressed by Plengpin's performance and offers her a chance to audition for the group. Poom, Duenpradub's son, convinces her parents to let her join after she helps him get away from ruffians. Plengpin's intention is not only to pursue her dream but also find out what happened in the past. Why are her parents against her being a Pong Lang dancer?