bitchin’ metal hurdy-gurdy solo

[solarbird]

Remember a while ago I talked about the “bitchin’ metal hurdy-gurdy solo” that Nicolas Boulerice did at a Le Vent du Nord show in Victoria? And I talked to him after the show and found out that he had in fact been in a metal band before going onto Quebecois trad music?

This is called “cutting out the middleman.”

"Break Your Crank - Guilhem Desq (electric hurdy gurdy)" (Watch on YouTube)

(h/t George P Burdell III on Facebook)

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Comments

[vatine]

This vaguely reminds me of Hedningarna (random YouTube playlist featuring some of their music), who I may have described as "imagine rock, but starting from 15th century Swedish trad music, instead of swing".

[solarbird]

EXACTLY.

Which is my entire Elfmetal shtick. Elves discover metal and go, "...that's awesome, we should do that" and do.

[vatine]

If Hedningarna ever make it across to the US, it may well be worth spending time, money and effort at seeing them live.

[westrider]

Dude. Does he have an album that's all stuff like this, or is it just the occasional track? I would totally be down with an album of this.

[solarbird]

I don't know. I found a MySpace account (yes, yes, lolMySpace) but it only has a few tracks on it. He's French, apparently.