Recordings featuring the hurdy gurdy

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The following recordings utilize the hurdy-gurdy.

  • The group Blowzabella feature hurdy-gurdies together with bagpipes and an array of acoustic instruments "to produce an inimitable, driving drone-based sound influenced by British and European traditional dance music."
  • Patrick Bouffard is a master player and composer in the Bourbonnais and Auvergne traditions, and has recorded several albums with Trio Patrick Bouffard, La Chavannee and other groups.
  • Gilles Chabenat is a composer and master player of traditional and experimental electronic hurdy-gurdy styles.
  • Régine Chassagne, a prominent member of Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire uses a hurdy-gurdy on their 2007 album Neon Bible. Notable tracks featuring the use of a hurdy gurdy are "Black Mirror" and "Keep the Car Running".
  • The New York ensemble Unto Ashes utilize hurdy gurdy in their funerary song Exeunt Omnia which also features dulcimer and percussion. In Tous Esforcier the hurdy gurdy is utilized as a drone, accompanied by voice, French horn, and percussion.
  • Several traditional music groups in France feature a hurdy-gurdy or multiple hurdy-gurdies, including La Chavannee, Dedale, Trio Patrick Bouffard, Tapage and La Machine.
  • There is a hurdy gurdy on the Metallica album ReLoad, played by David Miles on the 11th track, "Low Man's Lyric."
  • The Rose Ensemble, an early music group based in Minnesota, frequently uses the hurdy gurdy in performances and recordings.
  • There is hurdy gurdy and border pipes on the Earthly Delights album Pleasures for Four Seasons and Favourites for Four Settings, played by John Garden and located at Earthly Delights. Each tune is also supplied with sheet music for musicians to use.
  • Hurdy gurdies are used in many of the recordings by the Swedish groups Garmarna and Hedningarna.
  • In 1999, Stefan Brisland-Ferner of Garmarna and Hållbus Totte Mattson of Hedningarna began collaborating on a musical project that would involve a novel use of hurdy gurdies, which would expand on the idea that the hurdy gurdy was the medieval equivalent of a synthesizer. In 2005, they released their first album under the name "Hurdy-Gurdy", titled "Prototyp." The album consists of twelve traditional and original songs, played entirely on two Swedish hurdy gurdies by Brisland-Ferner and Mattson. Specialized recording and computer editing techniques were used to produce a number of unique musical effects.
  • The Australian world/fusion group Umanee features hurdy gurdy in many of their songs.
  • Nigel Eaton plays hurdy gurdy on No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded, the 1994 album of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's 1990s band Page and Plant, most notably on their new version of Nobody's Fault But Mine .
  • The German folk-rock band Schandmaul uses a hurdy gurdy.
  • The German folk-rock metal band In Extremo sometimes uses a hurdy gurdy in their songs.
  • The avant-garde band Zaar has a hurdy gurdy player.
  • The Irish musician Andy Irvine plays the hurdy gurdy on several tracks, most prominently on the tune "Planxty Irvine".
  • The multi-instrumentalist Brendan Perry is also a hurdy gurdy virtuoso and used one in the live performance of "saltarello" in the 2005 tour of his former band Dead Can Dance.
  • Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page can be seen playing a hurdy gurdy in the Zeppelin movie The Song Remains the Same, sitting in front of his 18th century manor at Plumpton, Sussex. The tune played is called "Autumn Lake." Page and Plant are also seen using a hurdy gurdy in a 1994 recording of "Gallows Pole".
  • The indie rock band The Decemberists employ a hurdy gurdy in many of their songs including Sons and Daughters off their fourth album, The Crane Wife.
  • The line-up of the popular Asturian folk band La Bandinaincludes the hurdy gurdy player Merce Santos.
  • Brendan O'Brien plays the hurdy gurdy on the track "Into The Fire" from the Bruce Springsteen album The Rising. O'Brien also produced the album.
  • The folk metal band Eluveitie uses the hurdy gurdy in many of their songs, played by Anna Murphy.
  • Sting played a hurdy gurdy accompanying Alison Krauss in the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love" from the Cold Mountain soundtrack.
  • Loreena McKennitt has several albums featuring a hurdy gurdy played by Nigel Eaton and Ben Grossman.
  • The pagan folk band Omnia has hurdy gurdy on many tracks on their album Pagan Folk (2006), played by Jennifer Van der Harten-Evans.
  • The pagan folk band Faun uses hurdy gurdy on their albums, played by Elisabeth Pawelke.
  • Jim O'Rourke's one track album Happy Days features the hurdy gurdy.
  • Natasa Mirkovic and Matthias Loibner have recorded "Der Leiermann" with a hurdy-gurdy. This Schubert song from Winterreise is about a hurdy-gurdy player.
  • The 2004 movie Monster has music by BT that includes a hurdy gurdy, played by Ben Grossman. It is available on CD "Music From & Inspired By the Film Monster" released by Digital Sound in 2004. [1]
  • The psychedelic stoner rock band Obiat uses a hurdy gurdy played by Zarand Schuller in some of its live concerts and on its second album "Disturbulence."
  • The rock band Lazywall used a hurdy gurdy played by Zarand Schuller as an introduction to their concerts on their tour of France in November 2007