impro à la cabrette sur le morceau de Me and my Friends inspiré par le covid 

Self Isolation improvisation

Regret - Slow air. Compositions commissioned for the soundtrack to "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" after R. L. Stevenson, a film by François Marret. Music, arrangements, recordings and performances by Jean-Pierre Rasle on Auvergne bagpipes, smallpipes, recorders, crumhorns and vocals

Mariez-Moi, Ma Mère. Slow air

⅜ Bourrée. Compositions commissioned for the soundtrack to "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" after R. L. Stevenson, a film by François Marret. Music, arrangements, recordings and performances by Jean-Pierre Rasle on Auvergne bagpipes, smallpipes, recorders, crumhorns and vocals

La Majestueuse I. ⅜ Bourrée

Polka. Compositions commissioned for the soundtrack to "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" after R. L. Stevenson, a film by François Marret. Music, arrangements, recordings and performances by Jean-Pierre Rasle on Auvergne bagpipes, smallpipes, recorders, crumhorns and vocals

Le Colimacon

Compositions commissioned for the soundtrack to "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" after R. L. Stevenson, a film by François Marret. Music, arrangements, recordings and performances by Jean-Pierre Rasle on Auvergne bagpipes, smallpipes, recorders, crumhorns and vocals

L'Assomante

Scottish. Compositions commissioned for the soundtrack to "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" after R. L. Stevenson, a film by François Marret. Music, arrangements, recordings and performances by Jean-Pierre Rasle on Auvergne bagpipes, smallpipes, recorders, crumhorns and vocals

La Nanette

Jig Selected from CD "Below the Belt", 
Jean-Pierre Rasle: Musette Béchonnet, recorder
Paul Martin: Mandocello
Pete Lockwood: Keyboards, Saxophone, percussion 
Vanda Sainsbury: Clarinet

La pénible / The Painful One

Polka Selected from CD ""Pumped Up & Loaded", © 1996 Mrs Casey Records MCRCD6992
Jean-Pierre Rasle: Musette Béchonnet, recorder
Paul Martin: Mandocello
Pete Lockwood: Keyboards, drums, percussion 
Vanda Sainsbury: Clarinet

L'Escalier / The Staircase

Le Petit Coin

New waltz as performed at Edinburgh and major folk festivals
Jean-Pierre Rasle: musette Béchonnet, tenor recorder
Paul Martin: mandocello
Pete Lockwood: keyboards

La Conterie

New polka
Jean-Pierre Rasle: recorder, great pipes,
Paul Martin: mandocello,
Pete Lockwood: keyboards, percussion


Le Topinambour

Post-punk prog-folk-rock baroque new jazz and French chanson piper-singer, composer-arranger and researcher, French folk and early music woodwind specialist

Jean-Pierre Rasle has been at the forefront of pipe playing in Britain for many years, exploring innovative ways of developing the French versions of the instrument and its repertoire:

He has covered folk-rock with the Albion Band, prog-folk ceilidhs with his own classic band of 30 years' standing, Cock and Bull, French chanson as an internationally touring duo with Gabriel Yacoub of folk-rock giants Malicorne, folk-baroque with a string of Early music groups, including the Palladian Ensemble, Monica Hugget's Ensemble Sonnerie, Ex-Cathedra, and his own outfits Folies Bergères, Chalemie and Jean de La Mer, in which he presents the results of his research into the baroque repertoire for pipes great and small.

After joining the ambient-trance dub-reggae world of post-punk bass player Jah Wobble as a member of his Invaders of the Heart, Deep Space and English Roots Band outfits over 10 years and more than 20 recordings, and a foray into new jazz with Alec Dankworth Quintet, he now concentrates on composing for the instrument with the acoustic nu-folk of Monsieur Pantin, his own theatrical ensemble, The Dancing Drones, his folk-improv. and contemporary outfits, Grand Ecart, Parallèles and Tractatus, as well as his musical roots with Dansez Bourdons,  Aiga de Març, Les Violons du Mamou, and his duo with Antoine Charpentier Sonnez Bourdons!

His recording career spans all the above mentioned groups, as well as specially commissioned programmes for the BBC World Service, Radio 3 and 4, and music for film (Jah Wobble's soundtrack to "Fureur", and most recently his own of François Marret's "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" after R.L. Stevenson) and television (BBC, Channel 4).

He is active as a musical director and producer for theatre and special events and as an arranger and writer. A researcher and publisher, he specialises in French and English Folk, Popular , Contemporary and Early music for drone instruments. 
Music: World (French), drone-based improvisation, early baroque, crossover (Folk-Rock, Jazz-Folk, World-Dub, etc)

droneman

Popular tracks