The Drone Abides: Bagpipes in Experimental Music
Stewart Smith, Bandcamp Daily, 9 February 2022
BAGPIPES can get a bad rap. All that wheezing, shrieking and droning; all that militaristic pomp. Pay it no mind: The bagpipes are magic, elemental. "There is something deep in the human psyche that resonates when people hear the pipes," says saxophonist and piper Paul Dunmall. "They must be one of the first instruments humans played many thousands of years ago. I think even now there is something about a drone that calms the mind."
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