L'Attirail

L’Attirail was born on the road in the mid-1990s. During a road trip together, Xavier Demerliac (guitar) and Jean-Stéphane Brosse (accordion) defined the aesthetic of their future band: to create imaginary acoustic music, humorously blending borders and geographies.

From their very first album, Musiques des Préfectures Autonomes (1996), L’Attirail won over critics with their style: offbeat, post-traditional music, a mix of cultures and sounds, building bridges between East and West, between purists of tradition and followers of modernity. The atmosphere created by this music, seemingly simple but in reality complex, is perfectly suited to gently dissociating the listener from their foundations and transporting them to familiar yet unknown lands. The addition of soundtracks, gleaned from around the world by Xavier Demerliac, contributes to the originality of these musical road movies.