Ancient Beatbox

Ancient Beatbox

1996: Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 021

1. Laridé
2. Raining (My Eyes are Filled with Clouds)
3. Wooden Box
4. I’ll Wait for You
5. Bourée à Pichon
6. Diamon
7. The Many Lives of Diana
8. All We Live For

It sounds like a precision bagpipe but is in fact a slightly weirder instrument: the hurdy-gurdy gets flaunted in dance-mix settings on this stunningly funky CD by Paul James and Nigel Eaton. This is a really fun album, but if bagpipe-intensity sounds make you flinch you’ll find it hard to listen to. If you enjoy the pipes a bit, this is a great album to dance around to. Sheila Chandra provides vocals on one fine track, “Raining.”

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