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Smoke Weed Every Day - Snoop Dogg (Hedegaard) Q Bootleg

Celtic Thunder 7 Drunken Nights

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

The Pretender

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You Can't Call Me Kev Anymore (Kevin Bloody Wilson)

Erin Newton on harp and Dennise Howard on flute, a family duo jam session playing "Scottish Music for Flute and Harp" by Sunita Saneslow.

Ye Banks and Braes

Flow Gently Sweet Anon

Mingulay Boat Song

Willaford

Lochaber No More

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Pumped Up Kicks

Atmospheres of Beauty and Despair

1. Hamon’s First Lament
2. Adrift in the Dead of Night
3. Not Again!
4. Dancing on my Own Grave
5. Beyond Our Reach
6. And the Seagulls Scream
7. Best Keep on Running
8. Life’s Little Ups and Downs

All tracks composed, performed  and recorded by Rohan Kriwaczek, using real instruments (May 2013). All bagpipes were handmade by Seth Hamon of Arlington,Texas . 

All tracks © Rohan Kriwaczek, 2013.
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This album is dedicated to the memory of “Wee” Martyn Bennett who inspired a generation.

The Saddest Bagpipes in the World - part one

Knowing the Enemy – a concerto for bagpipes and ipad

It is always good to know your enemy, and the bagpipes have had more than most. From medieval monks to piano accordions, functional harmony to plain common sense, the bagpipes have outlasted them all. Today’s enemy is technology, and to pitch it against our pipes we brought in veteran producer RK AKA the Doctor, with his current weapon of choice, the ipad. 

The rules were simple, 8 rounds, only sounds made specifically by ipad music apps or bagpipes, NO SAMPLES, and may the best music win. The ipad wore the colours of the cold hand of technologisation; the bagpipes, the warm heart of humanity. Naturally both sides played a little dirty as there was a lot at stake, but it the end it was a foregone conclusion, and to celebrate our inevitable victory we invited rock guitarist Schosti Kriwaczek to play a solo on one note for the final number.

If we’re honest, we’re not sure we really like all of the results, but this was a fight that needed to be waged, of that none of us had any doubt.
Swedish sackpipa made by Seth Hamon, Texas.
All tracks composed and performed by Rohan Kriwaczek.
All tracks © Rohan Kriwaczek 2014                         www.rohan-k.co.uk


The Saddest Bagpipes in the World - part two

The Rev. Rohan K. & Son – Following the Black Dog… with bagpipes…

A chamber-opera for baritone, bagpipes, electric guitar and occasional concertina.

For this part of the Saddest Bagpipes in the World series we invited punk provocateur, the Rev. Rohan K. to see what his brand of theatrical anarchy could do with the bagpipes. And we were not disappointed! Insisting on working with his son, rock guitarist Schosti Kriwaczek, in the cheapskate home studio in his bedroom, he created this mini chamber-opera portraying, as he puts it, a “manic episode”. The music veers from folk and blues to full-on punk rock, but still the bagpipes always find their rightful place.

1.	No Angels
2.	Sally Said
3.	Beware
4.	Bright Sunny Day
5.	The Rev. Breaks
6.	Think I Might Be Mad
7.	Poor Rev. Rohan K.
8.	Hard Hard Journey

Rev. Rohan K – vocals, bagpipe, concertina.
Schosti Kriwaczek – backing vocals, guitar, whistling.

Swedish sackpipa made by Seth Hamon, Texas.
All tracks composed and performed by Rohan Kriwaczek & Schosti Kriwaczek, 
All tracks © Rohan Kriwaczek & Schosti Kriwaczek, 2013. 
www.rohan-k.co.uk


The Saddest Bagpipes in the World - part three

Highland Cathedral was written by Roever & Korb for a Highland Games held in Germany in 1982.
Flower of Scotland was written by Roy Williamson in the 1960's and performed by The Corries. 

Highland Cathedral - Flower of Scotland

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The Saddest Bagpipes in the World - part four - Sourlies

In August 2014 I set out for Sourlies bothy, in deepest Knoydart, with my son, Schosti, and, of course, the Saddest Bagpipes in the World. This was a pilgrimage, completing a journey aborted 20 years earlier due to an oncoming blizzard; a journey I had promised Schosti since he was twenty minutes old. For five days we took in the magnificence of Knoydart, playing music (there was a bothy guitar), telling tales, and most of all, watching the ever-changing landscape. These are the tunes we brought back with us – our humble tribute to the Scottish Hills, or perhaps their gift to us.

This album is dedicated to Wee Martyn, king of the pipers, Rory the mountain-runner, and Jason, wild goat of a fiddler – long may the myths and the music live on…





Rohan Kriwaczek – sackpipa (bagpipe), viola, violin, accordion.
Schosti Kriwaczek – 12-string, 6-string and 5-string guitar.
All music composed and recorded by Rohan and Schosti Kriwaczek 2014.
All music copyright Rohan and Schosti Kriwaczek 2014.
All music recorded in first or second takes, using real instruments.
Swedish sackpipa made by Seth Hamon, Texas.


The Saddest Bagpipes In The World - part four

Amazing Grace played on the bagpipes & drums.

Amazing Grace - Scottish Bagpipes

Andrew Branard is an accomplished individual performer and member of the Kanawha Valley Pipes and Drums(.org)The KVPD is actively seeking new members to carry on an over 25 year tradition of piping in the Kanawha Valley. If you are interested in trying out and learning the pipes contact Andrew via the website: 1. Deputy Chief Wingate
2. Out of the Air
3. New Year In Noosa
4. Charlemagne
5. Rose Among the Heather
6. Kelsey's Wee Reel

Andrew Branard - Medley of tunes on  the Great Highland Bagpipe

AKA Maya's Waltz ; Scottish smallpipes by Julian Goodacre with a flat third - Cnatural - option

Tomas's Waltz

Recorded live at Ceddesfield Hall 14.11.12

The Low Lights Of Shields

Sampling a hurdy gurdy piece (actual name of the instrument) by Frenchman Guilhem Desq, Mystical oriental breaks. free DL as usual! 

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Guilhem Desq - Omen (Perseid's Breaks Bootleg)

Few tunes on a Reid set of pipes owned by Tom Matthews

NPS TOTM for December 2014 - Air for Maurice Ogg by Alistair Anderson - followed by The Road to the North also by Alistair Anderson.

Air for Maurice Ogg & The Road to the North

March 2015 Tune of the Month, any tune from the Charlton Collection.  The tune celebrates a Jacobite.

Derwentwater's Farewell

UNA MAS DE MIS COMPOSICIONES EN EL GENERO DEL FOLKLORE GALLEGO, ESPERO LES GUSTE

Muñeira de Miriam

Scottish Bagpipes & Drums - Lost Song

Classic  Scottish pipe and drum selections.

01 Company Marches- Greenwood Side-The Drunken Piper-The Black Bear-Back o

A short teaser track of some of the tunes from the duet book 24 Tunes in the Swedish Style for Border Bagpipes.

A book of 24 tunes originally written for Swedish Bagpipes written out in Border Bagpipe G. (Most of the tunes are in C minor, so you can't really say written out in G...)  It's a book of duets, so grab the book, a friend and have fun!