La Rioule des Compagnons du Monde began in 2016, when an assembly of eight musicians gathered around a camp: La Rioule (the festival in Savoyards); all volunteers in the Andilly’s Grandes Medievals, cradle of their meeting and their first steps in the footsteps of the Middle Ages…From ancient songs to recent revived songs, the Rioule universe comes to life as the seasons progress. Under the sun and in the rain, notes and ideas bloom and early creations arrive in a first album that comes out in 2019: Around the Lantern; carrying with it a desire to perpetuate the wine culture by leading tales and stories from around the world to our modern times.
Inspired by the titles of this album, the gathering and the journey and the mixing became major themes for the “bracks”, so the name of the band grew and became the Rioule des Compagnons du Monde. 2020 and the confined years that follow inspire them to bring medieval festivals to the heart of the hearts by offering unpretentious videos of polyphonic songs from the great notes of the medieval repertoire, such as standards popularised in their time by Malicorn, Mélusine or Bamboche.
These small songs became big and a new album was recorded thanks to the support of this remote audience. Thus are born the Tales of the Wood of Calf, a collection of history mixing standard forgotten with creations of Sidi to plunge the listener into medieval and magical adventures to live at home. This period marks the arrival of a new member, Benjamin Gaona, a videographer; who opens the door to an evolution of the videos that have made the Rioule what it is today and finally put their stories in pictures.
Finally, in 2022, after a long wait, the Compagnons du Monde returned their audience to the stage. As if to celebrate this renewal and this Rioule more motivated than ever, a new album is being prepared and comes to life in the spring of 2023: Andrin’s journey, an epic to live according to the twelve months of the year that will see the four chapters of its history unveil in the first days of each season, to listen to at home or to live in front of the stage.
This album in pocket, the band won the prize for the big crush in the category “music, singing and dancing” of Compiègne’s international show “Fous d’histoire”. The group then grew from two new members and began traveling the roads of France in rich and varied events. And the story continues with a new album released in 2025: Les Voiles de l’Amarante, an album that returns to the sources of the first moments by putting the Companions of the World in the spotlight by a cross-breeding of cultures.
