Bad Girl

We we're fortunate enough to have a couple of days in the studio with Jonathan Shoreland who played wooden flute and pastoral oboe on this set of three Welsh slip jigs. Alan Davies joined us to add some lovely Cello lines.
The three tunes are Cwrw Dda (Good Beer) Y Facsen Felin (The Yellow Brew) Y Bwced (The Bucket) We normally refer to them as The Welsh Slips.

Welsh Slips (Beer Set) 1

A trad Breton song about a bagpipe sung by Brigitte Kloareg.   I am accompanying using a boxwood Bb single tenor drone set I made in 1989.  This is taken from the cassette Saith Rhyfeddod recorded in 1991 at Sain studio.    We later won a competition at Amzer Nevez, Ploemeur with this song.   (Two of the judges were Y. Bihan and J. Baron - fix) Sorry about the flutter but the cassette is knackered.

Ar Biniou 1991

A musical crochet arrangement from 2012 of a couple of my simple dance tunes, this time with hurdy gurdy (Steve Tyler) & unbelievably for me, modern border pipes (Katy Marchant) and the trusty Sunny Davidson on guitar.   The "Stump" melody was composed as a link piece in and old Fernhill set.   I play a Bb band flute and Bb pastoral oboe.

Katell & Stump

Primaeval trio.   Cliff Stapleton - hudry gurdy,  Sunny Davidson - guitar and myself.      I play an Eb clarinet (recon.), Bb pastoral oboe (hornbeam & yew) with two different bells for a change of colour, and Bb bagpipes with tenor drone (boxwood & cherrywood).     Recorded by Mark Tucker in Oct. 2006
I wrote the melody in 1997 and it was first recorded by fernhill with Andy Cutting in '98.   Swiss Pagan Metal band Eluveitie used it a decade later for their brilliant song Brictom mistaking it for a traditional tune :)

Gladez (Upottery) 06

Jonathan Shorland

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