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Posted: January 02 2013 at 01:39

Here ya go again with Nelson Mandela my hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfTkD-XWOFg

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Posted: January 02 2013 at 07:35

One of my favourite songs by Fish. Pipes from 4:28 to 5:17.

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Posted: January 03 2013 at 04:24

sagichim wrote:

I think Horslips used Bagpipes.

Horslips used the Irish uilleann pipes (which is a type of bag pipe) not the more widely-known Scottish bagpipes. You don't blow into uilleann pipes with your mouth like the Scottish bagpipes and they do sound different. See here...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uilleann_pipes

A guy called Davy Spillane is a great exponent of the uilleann pipes.......if you like that sort of thing.

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Posted: January 07 2013 at 15:12

Clearly not actually bagpipes, but I always thought the synths in "In the Light" sounded like bagpipes.

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Posted: January 07 2013 at 16:23

I don't know if they are on PA but Hagalaz Runedance's 'Frigga's web' is full of bagpipes :

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 14:43

This track by The Flower Kings on Space Revolver features bag-pipes though I guess they're synthesized:

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 15:18

Barclay James Harvest - The Ballad of Denshaw Mill

Nice song with bagpipes in the intro and outro.

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 16:17

Dan Ar Braz in many albums

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 18:06

Skimmed through and didn't see mention of "Breakwater" by Under the Sun, although they're only about the first minute.

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 19:41

Neurosis should be the only band allowed to ever use bagpipes. They use it to such devastating effect.

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 21:46

Just now catching up on this...Wow some good posts here!

Totally forgot the Zepplin "In the Light" as well as the Space Revolver LP by Flower Kings, now I need to re-listen. I did not know of tha Fish track either, thanks!

Lucas' post of Hagalaz Runedance's 'Frigga's web' was quite a pleasant treat...worth looking more into.

I have not checked the rest of the links yet but look interesting. Here is one that is not prog, but is a very soulful soundtrack to the "Last of the Mohichans" movie of 1992 or so. Just the sound of the main theme and the orchestra give the vibe of bagpipes (very Celtic) even though with an American Indian sound, I could not find the credits to see what instruments were used throughout the entire soundtrack (used to have the cassette but it is long gone). A couple of youtube links to 2 of the movements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGRnHOhGiE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_R7bJahcwc

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Posted: January 13 2013 at 22:34

Weren't there some pipes snuck into "Warm Sporran" off Tull's Stormwatch? Someone back me up here... Good calls on "Come Talk To Me" and "East Hastings."

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Posted: January 15 2013 at 17:22

Now that I think about it, the eerie section of "In the Light" was probably done with both synth and the hurdy gurdy which can have a similar drone effect like bagpipes. I'm pretty sure I'd heard Jimmy Page used the hurdy gurdy but I was never sure where. That would make sense.

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Posted: January 15 2013 at 18:07

Here's some more Rufus Harley:

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Posted: January 16 2013 at 01:49

best song off Greg Lake's debut album has them

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Posted: March 12 2013 at 08:00

OK - You asked for it, so here it is...A prog album by a whole band of bagpipes!!

'Poema Sinfónico Para Banda De Gaitas, Quinteto Instrumental Y Recitador (2013)':

http://www.bandanoega.net/
http://www.facebook.com/poemasinfonoega

"Noega was twenty years old in 2011, and such a special event also required a really special show: our Symphonic Poem, a musical and literary composition that flows conceptually among a city's own history and the memories of a sleeping girl who wakes up when the music starts. This music mixes together a Bagpipe Band, a chamber instrumental quintet (drums, double bass, keyboards, reeds and strings), singers and poets, all working as an orchestra. The Poem was premiered in Gijón in Summer, 2011, and recorded in a CD you can acquire from our on line shop." http://www.bandanoega.net/ingles/tiendaing.html

Line-up: (Banda gaites Noega):
Eduardo Garcia Salueña (Senogul's Keyboards Player and directror) - Composer and keyboardist
Daniel Álvarez, Héctor Braga, Horacio García, Eva D. Toca, Anabel Santiago, Lluis Xavier Álvarez, Fran Molinero, Marco A. Castañón

Noega:
Director - Pablo Rodríguez Alonso
Bagpipes - Pablo Rodríguez Alonso, Nicolás Pérez Iglesias, Eduardo González Fernández, Rubén Rodríguez Margolles, Rubén de la Roza Menéndez, Estela García Larroza, Hugo Alfonso Peinado Entrialgo, Xurde Menéndez Caravia, Hugo García Noval, Sergio Rodríguez García, Sergio Lobo Fernández, Isaac Arboleya Quirós, Corte Mario Rodríguez, Germán Romero Peralta, Lucía Fernández Trabanco, Sandra López Pérez, Alberto Rozada Piquero.
Percussion Director - Arsenio Ruiz González
Snare Drums - Arsenio Ruiz González, Valentín González Benavente
Tenor Drums - Corte Sara Rodríguez, Carla Huerta Migoya
Bass Drum - Luis Manuel García Barba

Country: Spain (Xixón)
Sub Genre: Symphonic, Prog Folk
Record Label: Resistencia
Release date: December 7, 2012
Tracklist:
01. Anuncia (1:13)
02. Fundación (2:42)
03. Noega (4:10)
04. La segunda muerte de Noega (1:16)
05. In hoc signo vinces (4:39)
06. Les fonts escondíes (1:51)
07. La muyer que te lluchó (3:21)
08. Foriata na to ciudá (2:56)
09. La fonda de Lola (4:11)
10. La xuba lo sagrao (1:52)
11. No más alto, el llar (6:20)
12. Suaña (2:01)
13. Noega: ente les domines (3:24)
14. Xotes (8:26)
15. Un alayíu qu’anuede (7:42)
16. La mestura de les augües (2:13)
17. Balagares d’agora (1:15)
18. Ente los cielos / Noega reprise (5:24)

Samples: (short ones of around a minute only)
http://www.resistencia.es/spa/item/NPS1201.html?PatronBusquedaDescripcion=noega

Discussion about the project (and the music itself) in Spanish: http://autopoietican.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/noega-celebracion-y-expansion-del.html

Google translate of it:

"Today is the time to talk about EDUARDO GARCIA Salueña in the context of the ambitious "Noega", a symphonic poem for pipe band, instrumental quintet and reciter. Mention Salueña GARCÍA not news to those who follow the path of Senogul Asturian group, one of the finest champions dream of progressive rock in the Iberian Peninsula in the New Millennium (also part of quack and other projects around) but now appreciate it strictly as single musical entity. Well, not strictly "Noega" is an immense work created to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Noega Pipe Band. This work includes the participation of the band, plus a quintet comprised Salueña Garcia himself on keyboards, the former Eva Garcia Senogul Touch on drums, Dani Alvarez on flute, whistles, Uilleann pipes and bouzouki, Héctor Braga the cello, harp, violin and bass voice and Horace, also acts an ensemble of percussionists, as well as the shares of reciters Xabel Lluís Alvarez "Texuca" and Fran Miller. GARCIA Salueña not rely exclusively on their own musical talent (which it has in abundance) for comprehensive engineering this symphonic poem, but also collected and adapted several traditional themes Asturian (Alborada, La Cruz De Mayu, xota De Remis, etc.). The disc itself is recorded from a performance at the Plaza Mayor de Gijon held in August 2011: the final edition, by the seal resistance, became a reality in October 2012. Noega is the name of pre-Roman fortified settlement that provides architectural and cultural root oldest Gijón, and in the specific context of this symphonic poem, the ancestral name refers us to the confluence of an attitude of reunion with the deepest roots with a Expansion attitude look elsewhere contact. More details on the meticulous and ambitious concept of "Noega" can be discovered in an interview that was done to Fran Miller and Salueña GARCIA, published on December 21, 2012 at this link blog "Renacer Electric": http://renacerelectrico .blogspot.com/2012/12/noega-poesia-y-musica-para-la-historia.html besides this issue radial filed Dec. 19 in the KRAS Radio Blog (link: http://radiokras .net63.net/index.php id = 1300)."

"With the pair of 'Advertise' and 'Foundation' we are faced with two successive recitations: marked by a cheerful tone, mocking, another marked by a solemn tone while the initial layers of keyboard being established cosmic aura full of elegance. So, during the second half of 'Foundation', a flute gets nostalgic to add warm colors before 'Noega' reflects the first group exploration: a great jazz-fusion exercise in alternating 5/4 and 3 / 4 that he creates a crystal clear, lyrical, which is adorned it halfway through the competition of bagpipes and drums. With 'The Second Death Of Noega', piano and a new recitation produce an aura of expectation before 'In Hoc Signo Vinces' install a beautiful journey of jazz and symphonic crossroads: the way the assembly bagpipes, violin and flute alternating the lead role in the expansions melodic precision holds strong. The pair of 'Les Fontes Escondíes' and' The Muyer Lluchó you 'sits a contemplative lyricism foundation is the perfect preview for tenor crossing elegiac' Foriata Na To citizens', and then, the atmosphere reminiscent of 'The Fonda De Lola ': this last piece plunges into the deepest evocations of the hometown, driven by a genuinely touching candor, candor lone migrant who own land looks as distant, and almost alien might add. A change of emotional register occurs with 'The Xuba What Sagrao' and 'No More High, The Llar', who are responsible for encouraging gestures with sounds and rhythms happy flirty jazz-based fusion of Latin roots, although it is clear the permanent commitment to the Asturian folklore in the ideology of Salueña GARCIA. The rhythmic patterns of jumping the battery and the spaces filled by the violin and bagpipes overflowing beauty amid a graceful contagious."

"The sequence of 'Suaña' and 'Noega: Ente Les master' (the first of which includes a recitation) is oriented toward the contemplative, the intervention of the bagpipes in the second includes a standard that is reminiscent of the introduction of 'La Verbena Hermetic ', one of the most prominent Senogul debut disc. The dynamics entering the cosmic elements provided by the synthesizer in his intriguing bagpipe company generates a special sonic universe, while echoes of folk evocations necessarily brings expressive Piper momentum. All this serves as a preamble to now that 'Xotes' concretize some of the more plethoric dynamics around the Symphonic Poem: this piece radiates light while spinning its variants exultant folk, avant-garde jazz, fusion and progressive overtones. From here, follow the path of no return thanks to exuberant musicality 'A Glayíu Qu'anuede' takes some of the previous melodic ideas in the repertoire of the symphonic poem and provides a majestic architecture where the pomp and elegance merge into a single dynamic. The sequence of 'The Mestura De Les Augües', 'D'Ralagares Agora' and 'Ente Skies / Noega Reprise' conclusion operates as systematic ideas and colorful atmospheres Poem: agile lights ranging from a spring afternoon until the mysterious cosmic dreams outer scope, finally landing on a night landscape marked by a sober majesty, the concept of "Noega" sound completes its journey with a breathtaking splendor and unappealable. EDUARDO GARCIA Salueña brings out their eclectic visionary mind and heart rooted in the original land Symphonic Poem in this light which dignifies with the current category musical vanguard of Spain.

The premiere was in August 2011, in the Plaza Mayor de Gijón. The recording, on CD, will be released on December 7, 2012"

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So yes, there is a place, it seems, for bagpipes in prog...And indeed probably any other instrument you could care to name!

Edited by yam yam - March 12 2013 at 08:04

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Posted: March 12 2013 at 10:57

yam yam wrote:

OK - You asked for it, so here it is...A prog album by a whole band of bagpipes!!

'Poema Sinfónico Para Banda De Gaitas, Quinteto Instrumental Y Recitador (2013)':

Yam Yam, being this has been suggested to Symphonic it's clear for me

1.- Their site describes it as Symphonic Prog Folk (whatever this is, becase it's written by people who don't knopw about Prog)

2.- It's Pure Folk

3.- IMO not even Prog

But in no way Symphonic.

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Posted: March 12 2013 at 11:13

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Oldfield uses them on Ommadawn.

Yep, that's Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains on uillean pipes (replacing Herbie Armstrong's playing on Northumbrian pipes). Paddy also appears on Oldfield's track Taurus II from the Five Miles Out album.

Liam O'Flynn and Davy Spillane play uillean pipes on Mike Oldfield's album Voyager. Tubular Bells II features bagpipes played by pipers from the New York police department.

Mike Oldfield himself plays Northumbrian bagpipes on Amarok.

Bagpipes also appear on Kate Bush's track Night Of The Swallow from her album The Dreaming, courtesy of Bill Whelan of Planxty, the composer of Riverdance.

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