Les Goristes

Machine-translated from the French article

Les Goristes is a Breton group, formed in November 1991 in Brest and active until 2017. Eight members make up this group: Les Goristes, whose group name irreverently announces the colour (a portmanteau combining gorets, meaning piglets, and choristes, meaning choristers), belong to an established tradition of Brest songwriters that notably includes Henri Ansquer, author at the beginning of the 20th century of the very tragicomic Complainte de Jean Quéméneur, also known as A Recouvrance, a classic of Brest festive evenings which they have moreover performed with brilliance. Far from being mawkish or politically correct, their joyfully iconoclastic songs serve a biting social commentary and target multiple objects in every direction of the social and political compass rose.