Gorgeous, haunting hurdy gurdy
Can I just say how much I love the song “Doyen” from The Duellists album English hurdy gurdy music? It opens podcast 114 from Brainwashed, and it is just amazingly rich and emotive. This sort of stuff could be incredibly flat and “going through the motions”, but this song has a wonderfully lilting, haunted feel that I just can’t help closing my eyes and swaying gently. Literally takes one’s breath away. And then I have to listen to it again. Several times. In its way it has the power and depth of good piece of Bach choral or organ music.
Apparently the disc is pretty hard to find. Some Googling did turn it up in a few small on-line stores, though.
The photo is from Ann’s garden when we first arrived in the UK in August.
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