Cory Seznec

My brother Yann and I are releasing our new album Jagged Land sometime over the next two weeks. It features eight originals and three traditional numbers, and a host of awesome musician friends of ours on different tracks: Thomas Bailey on fiddle, Stephen Harrison on upright bass, Pedro Kouyaté on kamelngoni, Renaud Ollivier on percussion, and Peter Vilk on drums (and even a little bit of percussion from fellow Groanboxer Paul Clifford on one track!).
It’ll be up on iTunes, cdbaby, and other media soon. Stay tuned…

2011 marks a fruitful year for me on the recording front – my bro and I are in the midst of finalizing an album that we are hoping to release in the next couple of months.
On a whim, Pedro Kouyaté, Renaud Ollivier and I went into a studio in March and recorded four Malian inspired tunes with kamelngoni and banjo, two guitars, and calabash.
You can listen to samples and some full-length jams of the Seznec bros project and Tempo Sapiens (Kouyaté, Ollivier, Seznec) on the music page.
Finally, my trio, Groanbox, is going to be recording our fifth album in August in a cottage in Scotland.

New recording project in the works with my brother in March and May, a Groanbox tour of the UK and northern France coming up in April (bandmate Michael is on a one gig a day for a year marathon, check out gig365), more gigs/busking/recording with Pedro Kouyaté and his band, and other miscellaneous (mis)adventures coming up…
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A few theater performances lined up for this weekend. I am doing the sound design for Fabrice Macaux’s play “Rapaces”, which features actress Laurence Mayor and circus artist Mikaël Vessereau. As there are very few words in the play, my role is to provide the sonic response to what takes place on stage. My little world of strings is thus fully exploited – from spooky feedback from resonator guitar, to gourd banjo, to ngoni, to delayed charango, to distorted open-backed banjo, to fingerstyle guitar…all pumped through my little Vox DA5 amp!
At some point I’m going to try and get a decent recording of the whole thing. In the meantime, here are a couple of samples from “charango theme”…

Rapaces (charango theme 1) – C. Seznec
Rapaces (charango theme 2) – C. Seznec

Just a little missive to broadcast a gig I’m doing with Adam McBride-Smith, and Pedro Kouyaté and Renaud Ollivier on a barge on the canal here in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on Thursday, December 2nd. Info here.
Other than that, I’ll be doing some recording with my brother over the next few months…more on that later…