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« Dhûne charmed the audience… The concert’s hall was quickly fulled, there was only missing a tent tighted on the top of the two artists to imagine them sitting between the dunes of an arid desert. Their concert carries away the audience towards near or far East in a way full of imagery. Shime, rainsticks, tabla or darbuka become harp’s partners to give volume to the concert (…) A trip offered by two master artistes in arrangement… »

Charente libre
15 July 2005

« Unusual, a fabulous show... They quite simply seduced (..). Musicians of the Dhûne band proved all their talent, for the greatest pleasure of all. Surprised at the very beginning, the audience became quickly seduced by the airs of Dhûne come from somewhere else (…) »

Le populaire
4 May 2005

"Dhûne Phantom of the Trees"

« Travelling unknown lands, faraway echoes… In which world are we ? The strings of the celtic harp of Florian Genilleau and the percussion, udu drums, darbuka and congas of Pierre Buisson spin this world full of imagery and magical delicately phrased by the seeds of the song and of the didgeridoo.

Now jazzy, now Indo-Arab, musical colors of these successive trips to which this duet of musicians invites us are constantly surprising us. Path’s rhythm too. From the slow walk in a desert full of mirages, to some draughts carrying all in their path… Dhûne definitely doesn’t go unnoticed ! »

Neswletter of the Traditional Musics Centre
Rhône-Alpes N°57
April, May, June 2005

« The stage of artists at the Theatre of Dinan was the opportunity to have a general idea of the afternoon’s concerts or to discover them for those who couldn’t attend Christine Högl’s ones, the duet Annwyn or the Celtic Harp Ensemble in Plouer… In this way, the audience could be carried away from a universe to another, from a musical bank to another, from a harpistic continent to another : from the company Skald where a strange harp, because friendly strings remembering Indian zither are added on the instrument, accompanies tales stemmed from the Welsh tradition, to the snappy world of the duet Dhûne where percussion flirts with celtic harp under various celtic, jazzy or oriental styles ; from Breton coasts celebrated by Christine Högl to the paragayan and brightened sounds of the harp of Ismael Ledesma ; from the uncluttered sound of the duet harp-accordion Annwyn to the virtuosity of the Celtic Harp Ensemble which puts the greatest Italian musical tradition at the service of the Celtic repertory, we can be easily satisfied while letting ourselves be conquered by this stage’s diversity. It should be noted that during the interlude, the stringed-instrument makers exhibition opened its doors to the public which could, while waiting for the musicains to set up themselves and in order to become completely ready to listen to these various artists, mook at the work of the stringed-instrument makers without whom harpists would be well at a loose end : "An experience to be renewed" according to Marin Lhopiteau, in charge of the exhibition’s organization, who is a stringed-instrument maker himself in Quimper and a harpist in the Dremmwel band who will perform tomorrow early at the Fest-noz to prepare the dancers’s legs to move… »

Log book of the Dinan International Celtic Harp Festival.
Available at www.harpe-celtique.com
July 2005

4:30 pm : At the castle

The duet Dhûne, harp (Florian Genilleau) and percussion (Pierre Buisson), performed with an undisguised glee which they managed to pass on to the audience who filled this entrancing and mysterious hall. Through their repertory made of their own compositions, some of them most recent, they proposed to their audience a trip for which this last one only needed a passport consisting in closing the eyes and inspiring three times. In this way we just needed to let ourselves carry away by their sound to travel some endless desert areas and landscapes of dreams. At the end of the concert, the percussionist suggested extending this moment by presenting at those who wanted his instruments whose diversity and origin could surprise the audience.

Log book of the Dinan International Celtic Harp Festival.
Available at www.harpe-celtique.com
July 2005

« First thank you so much Dhûne and a big cheer for your three masterpieces : The Black Minute (but on which CD is it ?) ; The Voice of Desert (sublime in acoustic where both harp and skins create a dialogue (…) Sublime. Here again : Gentlemen, well done !) »
Audience’s words, Forum of the House of Harp
August 2005