Very nice!...in it's own way. Sort of like the paintings that just look like bucket of paint thrown on the wall, but art folk say that they are genius.
Really!?!?!?! How the heck did he manage to get his THIRD album????? I'm going to use this next halloween to scare away all the little kiddies who come to our house!! ;)
Did anyone check if that was being played on new years eve in Arkansas when thousands of blackbirds suddenly fell dead from the sky?
They haven't figured out what killed them yet, but I'll bet somebody out there had their windows open and the stereo turned up too loud.
I'll call the humane society right now, We've got to stop that guy before all the birds in the world fall dead from the sky.
Thanks for that Llig. It locked my machine so I couldn't stop it playing or turn it down. The neighbours banged on the wall. Had to turn everything off at the mains, which also took down my phones and printer.
No more "crikey's" please.
there appears to be a lot of b*Ish*t going round, folks, eh.
anyway...we'll play and listen to choon until they get where they want. the poor bloody birds.
There's a strange arty sort of thing happening in Bristol at this time (it's painting art, and no, I'm not talking about Banksy). That bagpiping audio mysterious made a connection in my mind with a modern painting as reported in tonight's Bristol Evening Post about a painting by a local artist.
The newspaper report says:
"This painting is worth £1 million - according to artist Anthony Seymour, who said the price tag is part of the 'artistic process'
"The artwork, entitled Caliban, is the centerpiece of 14 paintings in an exhibition called Playing Tennis At Night by Mr Seymour ...
"Mr Seymour and his agent Michael Stevens say other 'well-known' figures in the art world also value the piece highly.
"Mr Seymour said 'The price is part of the painting and the artistic process. If you want people to look at the painting and sustain a gaze, you need to able to say it costs this much.'
"The paintings are for sale, so anyone feeling flush can e-mail michaeljohnstevens@live.co.uk" [end report]
My first thought on seeing the photo of the painting in the newspaper was that it could almost have been done by my 7-year old granddaughter (ok, not quite, give her a couple more years). I hope I am not the only one to notice that the Emperor has no clothes!
Now there must be some way we musicians can get in on an act like that - such as "The price is part of the music and the composing and playing process. If you want people to hear the music and sustain a listen, you need to able to say it costs this much."
i just find it a bit annoying that we have the biggest keyboard warrior on teh interwebz who daren't show his face despite regularly slagging people off
Llig you’ve scared the children!
Of course you directed us to that site for a harmless laugh knowing what the reaction to Dunmall’s music would be from the contributors to the mustard board and I’m not calling you for that at all. However the predictable reactions do demonstrate the aversion to any music or art that could be described either as challenging or rubbish depending on your experience.
We were directed to a musician who is exploring another way of expressing himself and for us people who like nice tunes in simple dance rhythm forms you’ve taken us way out of our comfort zone. We like traditional music and when we were directed to a site that said bagpipe solo we expected jigs and reels and other stuff like that that we’ve heard before. Loads of times. Again and again. Over and over. Cos we like them like that. Played traditionally.
So when we compared our musical values to an excerpt of Dunmall’s pipe playing, oh how we laughed. Smug in the knowledge that our hoots of derision would be echoed by our fellow like-minded traditional musicians we were happy, en masse, to dismiss Dunmall as a non musical charlatan, or words to that effect. Because we know what we like. We play in pubs mostly.
With one or two exceptions who’ve responded to your posting, most of us are too scared to venture away from what we consider to be real music and we prefer to shun anything to which we cannot tap our feet or hum along.
Please don’t do that again, I like a simple life without having to hurt my brain or my ears. Ha, ha, ha.
"Wouldn't go down well in the Kintail Lodge Solidmahog!"
Your right of course bogman, I could imagine a certain amount of consternation on the part of most of the locals. Some of course would be too boxed to notice and there are those, all be it just a few, who'd be inviting yer man up the hill to the techno croft to add some textures to the incessant industrial thumpy thumpy.
I can even hear old dead departed Tommy's voice echoing from the grave, with a gruff "jezus boys, yons no solidmahog at all".
I don't think laughing at this pipe playing is appropriate. What really got me was how it explodes preconceptions of what music is. We all know that what's a bloody racket to some ears can be sweet heaven to others, but this goes further, I think.
I think my main problem with it is that he simply can't play the pipes. He's made absolutly no effort to learn. He's simply tucked the bag under his arm, squeezed hard and recorded the results. He obviously never did this with the sax, so why with the pipes?
"there are those, all be it just a few, who'd be inviting yer man up the hill to the techno croft to add some textures to the incessant industrial thumpy thumpy"
I'm not laughing and I acknowledged, in the quote from my previous post that there are those who would enjoy it.
"He obviously never did this with the sax, so why with the pipes?"
No idea. Same reason some think they can whack some hide with little of no practice perhaps?
Fraser Fifield, on the other hand, rather spectacularly did it in reverse. Setting "lament for the children" on sax, and what a dam good job he and his jazzer mates made of it, IMO that is. Also he can play both, rather well.
If he could prove his credentials by demonstrating he could play the pipes as we would expect them to sound in a session, would this allow us to accept his unconventional approach to making music with them, even though it still sounds the same?
(all in a hard night's work at the sydney festival first night tonight, together with an 'urban' DJ with a sound system that made your vision blur on every other beat. Brilliant.
Every second accent I heard was English in the streets...I guess it beats the northern winter. Well done.)
Good question Gran Cassa. I'd say no for me, simply because atonal experimental noodling is not my cup of tea regardless of the instrument.
I do enjoy some experimental melodic noodling of the improvisational kind, just not at any sessions I'm attempting to enjoy, of course. Save that stuff for the coffee shop or the jazz bar.
thank christ there's still some happy places in the world, peace.
good onya.
'purity' is what they still have, mark; maybe what the op was trying to be on about. western world has pretty much lost this stuff...but it's around as a remant...and all in the streets of sydneyoz tonight. beautiful.
they are about the most beautiful minds on this earth; always have been.
*that's* what irish music is supposed to be about, imho...let it be, so. it is a remnant. Accept it; and find the rhythm.
it's the rhythm of the body and the heartbeat. tune in.
i ended up sitting with the drummers and dancers from the Cook Island group after the show tonight...it was unbelievable...I felt like I was sitting with my closest family. That is what can be done through music and the commonality of it. It is human.
Great video Skull. What's the high-pitched stuff going on? I couldn't see any instrument capable of making that noise. Sometimes, it sounded like an accordion, or maybe some sort of organ.
I think the mood, tone, feeling, rhythm, all the different factors that make up any musical form or art form for that matter, is a direct reflection of each individuals inner consiousness.
If their conciousness is warm and happy, their music will be too.
Just like looking into someones eyes as it is the window to the soul.
Are the eyes warm and happy?
Are they cold and distant?
Maybe they have aspects of all that and everything in between.
Just as we can bring disease upon our body by being stressed and unhappy, we can bring disease upon our music by how high or how low we choose to raise our level of conciousness. .
I believe that Mr. Dunmall, just as poor Capt. Beefheart was, is suffering massive turmoil within his own conciousness and it comes out in his music. He is an artist in utter pain and turmoil when he chooses to sound like that.
Folks that are drawn to that kind of thing are usually in similar states of being as what they choose to surround themselves with.
This is the world. It can only be as troubled or as peaceful as we choose to make it.
Personally, whenever I can, I'm going choose peaceful and joyful things to surround myself with. I'm not in to pain and turmoil, been there done that.
Peace.
"Hakits" is about a certain fact of life still practiced today on Buka and throughout the surrounding sister islands. This video was filmed on location by the good guys at Tambolema Productions and re-edited for private use only. Downloading for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited."
yes, it has studio additions by the sound of it.( I'm not going to enquire as what "hakits" might be; mightn't want to know.
Right at the end when he gobs on the stage really makes it for me, ha ha you couldn't scrip it better if you tried, I wonder what a 1960's US TV audience would have thought of that, lol.
If you blow very, very hard across the top of a water well shouldn't you be able to get the column of air in it to resonate? Blow hard enough and you may also be able to play the harmonics
I don't think it would work with an oil/gas well - too much machinery and stuff cluttering it.
It would probably work if you got like 30 people to blow across the top of it at once.
I can see it now.
Headlines read 30 arrested for attempting to blow a well Ha ha ha.........
If it wasn't a bagpipe, I would be tempted to feel sorry and pity the poor, tortured instrument because he is trying to make it do unnatural things which it wasn't designed or meant to do.
crikey
crikey
http://www.pauldunmall.com/audio.htm
Scroll down and click on: 2003 Solo bagpipes ... if you dare
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by ...
Re: crikey
Quick - someone call the RSPCA!!
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Mark Harmer
Re: crikey
What the f*ck is he doing to those poor bagpipes!
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: crikey
A ZX Spectrum loading.
Bad acid trip aside, the man is amazing. Loved his work with Danny Thompson.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Dr. Dow
Re: crikey
The scariest thing is the description, which begins, "On this his 3rd solo bagpipe album.........." THIRD!!!
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by bogman
Re: crikey
That's what comes of trying to play by ear.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by skreech
Re: crikey
lol
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by bogman
Re: crikey
"...shimmering drone slowly moves in waves that wash over us in a sea of gently unnerving bliss"
Oh - is THAT what that was...
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: crikey
Michael, I believe I deserve compensation for those two very traumatic seconds of my life.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Dragut Reis
Re: crikey
Why? Did it smash your windows?
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by ...
Re: crikey
Adventurous.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Henk Bos
Re: crikey
just love those Aficionado Pipes, always did. Precise noise production though...hard to do. It sounds like it's all about control and not letting go.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
cripes!
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
Actually, you can get quite a cool effect by starting some of the other recordings along with the pipes...
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Mark Harmer
Re: crikey
Hee hee
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Dragut Reis
Re: crikey
such as?/
just to balance up that heresy though....here's some sacred music for yer ears.(in case ye need it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpFaTsnBFyo
lovely.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
...and people have the gall to tell me that I play in an obscure musical genre. Sheesh.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: crikey
It reminds me of Captain Beefheart's musette playing on 'Neon Meat Dream of a Octafish', but without the Captain's studious lack of talent.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: crikey
>Why? Did it smash your windows?
well it crashed mine. I gave up on trying the website after the forth time it caused my browser to crash. Doesn't sound like I'm missing much.
- chris
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by ramblingpitchfork
Re: crikey
At least he didn't seem to obsess with the tuning issue.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Michele Sims
Re: crikey
"I gave up on trying the website after the forth time it caused my browser to crash. "
....a bridge too far, Chris.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by domhnall.
Re: crikey
My dog looked very worried, whined and left the room. I felt much the same.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: crikey
Very nice!...in it's own way. Sort of like the paintings that just look like bucket of paint thrown on the wall, but art folk say that they are genius.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gringo
Re: crikey
Good example of a piper who should be a gentleman and choose not to play. .
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
Imagine seeing this guy coming to your session with his pipes and a big smile.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gallowglass
Re: crikey
No.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
Really!?!?!?! How the heck did he manage to get his THIRD album????? I'm going to use this next halloween to scare away all the little kiddies who come to our house!! ;)
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by mandolinist
Re: crikey
Did anyone check if that was being played on new years eve in Arkansas when thousands of blackbirds suddenly fell dead from the sky?
They haven't figured out what killed them yet, but I'll bet somebody out there had their windows open and the stereo turned up too loud.
I'll call the humane society right now, We've got to stop that guy before all the birds in the world fall dead from the sky.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
it happened in Sweden or somewhere too a couple of nights later, so maybe don't laugh it off yet.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
"...waves that wash over us in a sea of gently unnerving {rhymes with} bliss" - Down Town Music Gallery haha
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by gam
Re: crikey
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0105/First-blackbirds-in-Arkansas.-Now-jackdaws-drop-in-Sweden.-A-common-cause
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Ben Steen
Re: crikey
Thanks for that Llig. It locked my machine so I couldn't stop it playing or turn it down. The neighbours banged on the wall. Had to turn everything off at the mains, which also took down my phones and printer.
No more "crikey's" please.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by curiadydrwm
Re: crikey
there appears to be a lot of b*Ish*t going round, folks, eh.
anyway...we'll play and listen to choon until they get where they want. the poor bloody birds.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
wow. "unnerving" is right!
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by PatrickJWK
Re: crikey
Yes Skull, lots of strange things happening. Whatever happened to those birds is very possibly human caused. Sad.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gallowglass
Re: crikey
As it happens, I have just been watching the movie "Age of Stupid", so I'm in the right mood for that kind of news.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gallowglass
Re: crikey
hey, galloglach, there's a lot goin/ down. nice handle.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
change your handle to gaelige, man, looks much better. do it.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
Well, I don't speak Irish myself, so maybe that would be a bit pretentious.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Gallowglass
Re: crikey
just google it dude, and do it. why do you presume you must speak only anglicised irish. change it, due.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
An Ríoga Gallóglaigh
http://home.earthlink.net/~rggsibiba/html/galloglas/gallohist.html
it's not gospel but a good read anywa
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
I wish I could get this - but it's YouTube's turn not to work on my computer at the moment.
There'll be a planetary alignment sooner or later, and then YouTube will come back on and some other part of the system will give out.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by nicholas
Re: crikey
dat's modern jaz for u, he is betta than Dick Miles.
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Oeidipus
Re: crikey
There's a strange arty sort of thing happening in Bristol at this time (it's painting art, and no, I'm not talking about Banksy). That bagpiping audio mysterious made a connection in my mind with a modern painting as reported in tonight's Bristol Evening Post about a painting by a local artist.
The newspaper report says:
"This painting is worth £1 million - according to artist Anthony Seymour, who said the price tag is part of the 'artistic process'
"The artwork, entitled Caliban, is the centerpiece of 14 paintings in an exhibition called Playing Tennis At Night by Mr Seymour ...
"Mr Seymour and his agent Michael Stevens say other 'well-known' figures in the art world also value the piece highly.
"Mr Seymour said 'The price is part of the painting and the artistic process. If you want people to look at the painting and sustain a gaze, you need to able to say it costs this much.'
"The paintings are for sale, so anyone feeling flush can e-mail michaeljohnstevens@live.co.uk" [end report]
My first thought on seeing the photo of the painting in the newspaper was that it could almost have been done by my 7-year old granddaughter (ok, not quite, give her a couple more years). I hope I am not the only one to notice that the Emperor has no clothes!
Now there must be some way we musicians can get in on an act like that - such as "The price is part of the music and the composing and playing process. If you want people to hear the music and sustain a listen, you need to able to say it costs this much."
# Posted on January 7th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: crikey
go on llig why not post some of your own stuff before slagging off others
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by I ♥ Dow
Re: crikey
I never slagged it off
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by ...
Re: crikey
then why, "if you dare"?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Ben Steen
Re: crikey
Well, it did lock up curiadydrwm's computer, didn't it? And my dog didn't like it (neither did I). Llig did warn us!
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: crikey
you did slag it off llig, you think i was born yesterday?
ever heard of the word "implied"?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by I ♥ Dow
Re: crikey
Is that you, DJF?
Then why worry?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: crikey
it's not me no
i just find it a bit annoying that we have the biggest keyboard warrior on teh interwebz who daren't show his face despite regularly slagging people off
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by I ♥ Dow
Re: crikey
Since I didn't receive a direct response I'll assume there is some optimism for the bagpipe soloist.
I don't tend to click on random links, though.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Ben Steen
Re: crikey
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,46516-35299158,00.html
Post Script: Albert Ayler's body was found floating in NYC's East River, November 1970
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Toppish
Re: crikey
That's terrible -- couldn't somebody have prevented it? Maybe put bricks in the pockets or something?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by gam
Re: crikey
bloody awful!
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by mcknowall
Re: crikey
Ok, it might be jazz and there may even be a desirable melody floating around in there, but "crikey" is somewhat of an understatement.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: crikey
Llig you’ve scared the children!
Of course you directed us to that site for a harmless laugh knowing what the reaction to Dunmall’s music would be from the contributors to the mustard board and I’m not calling you for that at all. However the predictable reactions do demonstrate the aversion to any music or art that could be described either as challenging or rubbish depending on your experience.
We were directed to a musician who is exploring another way of expressing himself and for us people who like nice tunes in simple dance rhythm forms you’ve taken us way out of our comfort zone. We like traditional music and when we were directed to a site that said bagpipe solo we expected jigs and reels and other stuff like that that we’ve heard before. Loads of times. Again and again. Over and over. Cos we like them like that. Played traditionally.
So when we compared our musical values to an excerpt of Dunmall’s pipe playing, oh how we laughed. Smug in the knowledge that our hoots of derision would be echoed by our fellow like-minded traditional musicians we were happy, en masse, to dismiss Dunmall as a non musical charlatan, or words to that effect. Because we know what we like. We play in pubs mostly.
With one or two exceptions who’ve responded to your posting, most of us are too scared to venture away from what we consider to be real music and we prefer to shun anything to which we cannot tap our feet or hum along.
Please don’t do that again, I like a simple life without having to hurt my brain or my ears. Ha, ha, ha.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Gran Cassa
Re: crikey
Wouldn't go down well in the Kintail Lodge Solidmahog!
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by bogman
Re: crikey
"Wouldn't go down well in the Kintail Lodge Solidmahog!"
Your right of course bogman, I could imagine a certain amount of consternation on the part of most of the locals. Some of course would be too boxed to notice and there are those, all be it just a few, who'd be inviting yer man up the hill to the techno croft to add some textures to the incessant industrial thumpy thumpy.
I can even hear old dead departed Tommy's voice echoing from the grave, with a gruff "jezus boys, yons no solidmahog at all".
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: crikey
Have to add that I'm with the Tommy camp.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: crikey
I don't think laughing at this pipe playing is appropriate. What really got me was how it explodes preconceptions of what music is. We all know that what's a bloody racket to some ears can be sweet heaven to others, but this goes further, I think.
I think my main problem with it is that he simply can't play the pipes. He's made absolutly no effort to learn. He's simply tucked the bag under his arm, squeezed hard and recorded the results. He obviously never did this with the sax, so why with the pipes?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by ...
Re: crikey
"there are those, all be it just a few, who'd be inviting yer man up the hill to the techno croft to add some textures to the incessant industrial thumpy thumpy"
I'm not laughing and I acknowledged, in the quote from my previous post that there are those who would enjoy it.
"He obviously never did this with the sax, so why with the pipes?"
No idea. Same reason some think they can whack some hide with little of no practice perhaps?
Fraser Fifield, on the other hand, rather spectacularly did it in reverse. Setting "lament for the children" on sax, and what a dam good job he and his jazzer mates made of it, IMO that is. Also he can play both, rather well.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: crikey
Ah! memories.....back in the sixties I use to have an old amplifier just like that one. Had to scrap it eventually, couldn't get the valves for it.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Free Reed
Re: crikey
If he could prove his credentials by demonstrating he could play the pipes as we would expect them to sound in a session, would this allow us to accept his unconventional approach to making music with them, even though it still sounds the same?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Gran Cassa
Re: crikey
llig, you could always go to bodhran heaven instead of subjecting everyone to that clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp_43eCPafI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4sWgfLTjYM
(all in a hard night's work at the sydney festival first night tonight, together with an 'urban' DJ with a sound system that made your vision blur on every other beat. Brilliant.
Every second accent I heard was English in the streets...I guess it beats the northern winter. Well done.)
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
...or maybe try a ceili:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYrJhZrNDl0&NR=1
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
Good question Gran Cassa. I'd say no for me, simply because atonal experimental noodling is not my cup of tea regardless of the instrument.
I do enjoy some experimental melodic noodling of the improvisational kind, just not at any sessions I'm attempting to enjoy, of course. Save that stuff for the coffee shop or the jazz bar.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: crikey
I wouldn't classify on the fly tune variations and articulations as experimental melodic noodling though.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: crikey
What the heck am I talking about? What is thread again? Where are my glasses? Has anyone seen my keys?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: crikey
Loved it. Wish he lived in my neighborhood - the possibilities of banjo interaction boggle the mind.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by will morgan
Re: crikey
I thought my Mac had somehow reverted to dial-up at first. If only.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Joe CSS
Re: crikey
llig, how about a bamboo jug band...and expressing subjective views in this company, could well be dangereux!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJbilMScAg
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
I forgot why I came to the thread. It was to ask llig what it was that he went to that site for and is it worth listening to ?
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by David50
Re: crikey
no it isn't. of course. it never was. if you look at the other links you'll find a better reason to be reading this thread.
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
it's about precision...
and self control; like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq0pPJIP7s0&feature=related
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
...and about defending a memory of pure happiness and generousity in the face of the evil cynicism that is goin down in this world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfpNsHRGEio&feature=related
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
Love the second one, directly above. They seem to be harmonizing in very "pure" intervals, to my ear...
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Mark Harmer
Re: crikey
Well Mr. Skull, You just made this old surf hippy's day with the Tatok Bamboo Band. I just love that stuff.
Peace
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
thank christ there's still some happy places in the world, peace.
good onya.
'purity' is what they still have, mark; maybe what the op was trying to be on about. western world has pretty much lost this stuff...but it's around as a remant...and all in the streets of sydneyoz tonight. beautiful.
they are about the most beautiful minds on this earth; always have been.
*that's* what irish music is supposed to be about, imho...let it be, so. it is a remnant. Accept it; and find the rhythm.
it's the rhythm of the body and the heartbeat. tune in.
i ended up sitting with the drummers and dancers from the Cook Island group after the show tonight...it was unbelievable...I felt like I was sitting with my closest family. That is what can be done through music and the commonality of it. It is human.
defend it. globalism is trying to destroy it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfpNsHRGEio&feature=related
...no drugs (kava maybe). just music.
and the people...
together
nice to be with the last free people on earth eh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfpNsHRGEio&feature=related
# Posted on January 8th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Re: crikey
random link ...
Red Hot Chilli Pipers play we will rock you to close their gig on 20th January at The Ferry in Glasgow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3b573x7iPw
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Ben Steen
Re: crikey
Great video Skull. What's the high-pitched stuff going on? I couldn't see any instrument capable of making that noise. Sometimes, it sounded like an accordion, or maybe some sort of organ.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by ethical blend
Re: crikey
I think the mood, tone, feeling, rhythm, all the different factors that make up any musical form or art form for that matter, is a direct reflection of each individuals inner consiousness.
If their conciousness is warm and happy, their music will be too.
Just like looking into someones eyes as it is the window to the soul.
Are the eyes warm and happy?
Are they cold and distant?
Maybe they have aspects of all that and everything in between.
Just as we can bring disease upon our body by being stressed and unhappy, we can bring disease upon our music by how high or how low we choose to raise our level of conciousness. .
I believe that Mr. Dunmall, just as poor Capt. Beefheart was, is suffering massive turmoil within his own conciousness and it comes out in his music. He is an artist in utter pain and turmoil when he chooses to sound like that.
Folks that are drawn to that kind of thing are usually in similar states of being as what they choose to surround themselves with.
This is the world. It can only be as troubled or as peaceful as we choose to make it.
Personally, whenever I can, I'm going choose peaceful and joyful things to surround myself with. I'm not in to pain and turmoil, been there done that.
Peace.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
This is as surrealistic as it gets in .org
& it's been out there & back many, many times.
e.b. I didn't see anything either. Might be panpipes, but it sounds like some effects have been added.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Ben Steen
Re: crikey
The birds in Arkansas died and fell to the ground because I was trying to serenade them by singing outside.
Laurence
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by fauxcelt
Re: crikey
there's a comment there below the video:
"Hakits" is about a certain fact of life still practiced today on Buka and throughout the surrounding sister islands. This video was filmed on location by the good guys at Tambolema Productions and re-edited for private use only. Downloading for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited."
yes, it has studio additions by the sound of it.( I'm not going to enquire as what "hakits" might be; mightn't want to know.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
Double crikey...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGnEkYt_0g&feature=related
If your piper came to your session, here's the perfect six string botherer backing dude for him...
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by yhaalhouse
Re: crikey
Yhaalhouse, that dude needs to get himself a proper mojo hand;
I think this is what he was trying to do, heres Mr mojo himself;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cT-qamhI-g
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: crikey
Right at the end when he gobs on the stage really makes it for me, ha ha you couldn't scrip it better if you tried, I wonder what a 1960's US TV audience would have thought of that, lol.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: crikey
"Good example of a piper who should be a gentleman and choose not to play"
I disagree, he plays well.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Joseph Tailyour
Re: crikey
I don't understand, weren't you Gemini yesterday? But your comments have disappeared! Weird.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by bogman
Re: crikey
"I don't understand, weren't you Gemini yesterday?" No.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Joseph Tailyour
Re: crikey
Re. bagpipes in jazz, there's always this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q53Ajkll_kw.
She's an astonishingly versatile musician - http://www.wimp.com/talentedmusician/.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: crikey
Tnx, MacCruiskeen.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Oeidipus
Re: crikey
Cunning,
How on earth does someone play a well and does he play an oil well or a gas well.
# Posted on January 9th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
If you blow very, very hard across the top of a water well shouldn't you be able to get the column of air in it to resonate? Blow hard enough and you may also be able to play the harmonics
I don't think it would work with an oil/gas well - too much machinery and stuff cluttering it.
# Posted on January 10th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: crikey
It would probably work if you got like 30 people to blow across the top of it at once.
I can see it now.
Headlines read 30 arrested for attempting to blow a well Ha ha ha.........
# Posted on January 11th 2011 by Gone to work
Re: crikey
If it wasn't a bagpipe, I would be tempted to feel sorry and pity the poor, tortured instrument because he is trying to make it do unnatural things which it wasn't designed or meant to do.
Laurence
# Posted on January 13th 2011 by fauxcelt