Rush Hour aka Les Panards Dansants ( Viking Hurdy Gurdy metal remix)

#hurdygurdy Breton circle dance inspired extravaganza. An Andro (an Dro)
#drone #folkmusic #circledance #medieval #accordion #bass
The best Viking inspired bagpipe or hurdy gurdy metal on the web. The Witcher and Black Sails are also a big influence, to say nothing of Sea of Thieves, God of War, Our Flag Means Death, My Fair Lady, Top Gun Maverick and something with Tom Hardy in.
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Drone based urban folkie trance is also the idea, mainly because its hard for me to keep a solid beat without doing the buzzing.
yes it's a remix, I've been learning about compression and limiting and a fab new bit of eq tech called fabfilter. petty cool. Oh and video fading too so as to hide the elephant impression seen previously.
so pls read the description below if you want to know how it's multitracked and mixed to video. it's not easy as my old computer no longer likes imovie very much

The live take is filmed on an old iphone and also recorded onto garageband and added to with other instruments. This multitrack audio is mixed and then blended with the live solo gurdy sound in imovie. No loopers or hidden musicians.... just endless fannying about, swearing and general cheating for effect.

Nigel Eaton is a British multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for playing the hurdy-gurdy. Eaton played the piano and cello before switching to the hurdy-gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began manufacturing them. Eaton has been described as the "foremost hurdy-gurdy player in popular music in North America and Europe"
Eaton has performed as a member of a number of different bands, including Whirling Pope Joan (with Julie Murphy), Blowzabella, Ancient Beatbox, The Duellists, and Firestarters of Leiden. He has released two solo albums, The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy (1987) and Pandemonium (2002), and the collaborative album Panic at the Café (1993) with Andy Cutting.

As a session musician, Eaton has contributed to the film scores for Robin Hood, The Shipping News, Kingdom of Heaven, Aliens, Mansfield Park, Tulip Fever, and Carl Davis's 1980 score for the 1927 silent film Napoléon. Eaton wrote "The Halsway Schottische", a song which later became "The Halsway Carol" (with lyrics by friend and collaborator Iain Frisk) and has seen hundreds of versions performed.[4] He has performed Howard Skempton's Concerto for Hurdy-gurdy and Percussion (written for himself and Evelyn Glennie) with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta.

Eaton has collaborated and recorded with a wide range of other artists including Afro Celt Sound System, Loreena McKennitt, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Scott Walker, Shelleyan Orphan, New London Consort, Heidi Berry, Gary Kemp, Bombay Bicycle Club, Blue Aeroplanes, Martin Simpson, The Palladian Ensemble, Moya Brennan, Robert Plant, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Silly Sisters, The Tavener Consort, Jake Walton, and Hamish Moore.

In addition to his work in music and film, Eaton is a designer and maker of built-in furniture in South London.

https://nigeleaton.bandcamp.com/music
https://open.spotify.com/album/6lfCSB...
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1yclC...