Left Hand Jack (Hurdy-Gurdy English Jig) 2024
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- New Hurdy-Gurdy Jig
The live take is filmed on a pair of old iphones and also recorded onto garageband and added to, then blended together again in imovie. No loopers or hidden musicians.... just endless fannying about, swearing and general cheating for effect.
Nigel Eaton is a British multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for playing the hurdy-gurdy. Eaton played the piano and cello before switching to the hurdy-gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began manufacturing them. Eaton has been described as the "foremost hurdy-gurdy player in popular music in North America and Europe"
Eaton has performed as a member of a number of different bands, including Whirling Pope Joan (with Julie Murphy), Blowzabella, Ancient Beatbox, The Duellists, and Firestarters of Leiden. He has released two solo albums, The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy (1987) and Pandemonium (2002), and the collaborative album Panic at the Café (1993) with Andy Cutting.
As a session musician, Eaton has contributed to the film scores for Robin Hood, The Shipping News, Kingdom of Heaven, Aliens, Mansfield Park, Tulip Fever, and Carl Davis's 1980 score for the 1927 silent film Napoléon. Eaton wrote "The Halsway Schottische", a song which later became "The Halsway Carol" (with lyrics by friend and collaborator Iain Frisk) and has seen hundreds of versions performed.[4] He has performed Howard Skempton's Concerto for Hurdy-gurdy and Percussion (written for himself and Evelyn Glennie) with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
Eaton has collaborated and recorded with a wide range of other artists including Afro Celt Sound System, Loreena McKennitt, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Scott Walker, Shelleyan Orphan, New London Consort, Heidi Berry, Gary Kemp, Bombay Bicycle Club, Blue Aeroplanes, Martin Simpson, The Palladian Ensemble, Moya Brennan, Robert Plant, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Silly Sisters, The Tavener Consort, Jake Walton, and Hamish Moore.
In addition to his work in music and film, Eaton is a designer and maker of built-in furniture in South London.
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i swear i just ascended while listening to this, truly amazing!
always a good day when we get another hurdy gurdy banger
That Nigel flavor! Had I just walked into a room and this was playing I would instantly know it was you. Lovely tune
it's the garageband flavour 😂
Thanks
Wow thank you so much , great
Beautiful melody and arrangement with the other voices and accordion. Love it! Thanks for your music Nigel.
Happy New Year Nigel. Thank you for continuing to share your music with us.
Really like this one (not that I don't like the others!). Cheered me up when I was feeling a little down. Thanks Nigel 😊
Great to see you after all these years and a cracking tune. Best wishes for 2024.
The Nigel sign At 2:47... What a beauty into The magnificience! Love it!
Always a good day when there's a new Nigel Eaton upload! Enjoyed it!
Another great one !! The day starts well, thank you :) Please never stop sharing your music with us !
Oh yeah.... new tunes for new year !! Thanks Nigel
That buzz rhythm is just so good.
I could watch your videos for hours!! (Actually, I DO!!)😎
Merci!
Splendid 😊
My goodness that’s lovely
I feel a good bit warmer now after all that jigging.
a proper earworm this is
Nigel, Thanks for the new tune, it's good)
Nice 👍. No offence to the lovely A part but that B part is amazing.
If i was directing an epic this would defo be the climax music.
Dr. Strange playing an instrument .😅
Oh yes!
Great!
some trompetting well made
Cool.
Hello Nigel...!!!!
Piratey.
An other splendid piece of HG music from Nigel Eaton . I was wondering how chords are played. Is it a playback or done "live "recording ?
So I film myself plying the tune. Then I add loads of extra audio and then in iMovie I mix the live take with this audio. That's the basic answer . There's a few extra hoops to jump through of course but it means I can present the tunes in the way I want and get super nice audio too which I then post on bandcamp.
@@nigeleaton1 thank you very much for the explanations and ...your music !
Just started listening to HG music after ancient childhood memories of it being rather rubbish. I found your compositions via another player, and all I can say is, "Bravo!"
I trust this isn't a euphemism. beautiful rhythm either way
Actually it might be!!! I might have to change it yet . I'll see if anyone else mentions the possibility