List of Nontraditional Bagpipe Usage - Bagpipes in Other Forms of Music

Bagpipes in Other Forms of Music

• Eugenio Gracia has recorded the album called Chitos (Burgeons), played with Gaita de boto, native from Aragon, distinctive for its tenor drone running parallel to the chanter.
• Pipapelli, from Western North Carolina, uses the Great Highland Bagpipes more like a guitar than anything else. Run through a guitar wah peddle to create the original "Western Carolina Wah-pyps". Pipapelli plays tunes from Koko Taylor to Blues Brothers to Led Zeppelin, with many of the tunes driven by the lead bagpipes.
• Xufu, a Catalan Bagpipe Player, has recorded a hip-hop song "5" with his bagpipe.
• Niteworks, an electronic dance group from Skye use the Scottish smallpipe in combination with Gaelic song and electronic dance music. Their piper Allan MacDonald is the son of Dr. Angus MacDonald of the Glenuig MacDonalds, esteemed Scottish Pipers.
• Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has had an ongoing free form psychedelic project for some years, "Glacial," with piper David Watson (see above).
• Canadian band Godspeed You! Black Emperor used bagpipes for the opening of East Hastings from their LP F♯ A♯ ∞
• Originally a hymn, "Amazing Grace" is often thought of as a bagpipe tune since it is particularly powerful on the pipes and is commonly heard at funerals when the pipes are present. It was popularized by a hit single recorded by the Royal Scots Greys under PM Jimmy Pryde, which was one of the first popular recordings of bagpipes played with another instrument.
• American funk band Parliament used bagpipes on the track "Silent Boatman", from their 1970 debut Osmium.
• Scottish/Indian/Jazz fusion band ] use Highland bagpipes extensively in their album "Linking Road" (2008)
• The late Canadian-born Scottish musician Martyn Bennett (1971–2005) played Highland bagpipe and Scottish smallpipe in combination with hip-hop and electronic dance music on all of his albums.
• Mark Saul is a Celtic fusion musician from Melbourne, Australia who plays the Great Highland Bagpipes, wooden flute, and tin whistle, in addition to creating the electronic aspects of his music.
• Bagpipes (played by Rufus Harley) are featured on the title track of the 1995 album Do You Want More?!!!??! by the U.S. hip hop group The Roots.
• Rufus Harley also played bagpipes on the track "Sweaters", on Laurie Anderson's art-rock album Big Science (1982).
• The British musician Paul Dunmall plays free improvised music on the border pipes.
• Orchestra Macaroon - Breakfast In Balquhidder -Scottish Latin-American jazz folk-rock with the apposite "Warning: This product may contain traces of bagpipes".
• Worldbeat ensemble Afro Celt Sound System have a signature sound that highlights the uilleann pipes in its fusion of traditional Celtic and African musical textures.
• Part of Orbital's single, "Style", includes a remix with (probably synthesized) bagpipes called "Big Pipe Style". The original was played with a Stylophone.
• In the video game Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, the song Bag is composed of synthesized bagpipe sounds.
• Belle & Sebastian's 1998 release The Boy with the Arab Strap, has bagpipes played by Iain "Chic" Mackay on the track Sleep the Clock Around.
• Modern Celtic-fusion band Lucid Druid features bagpipes as the primary instrument in their 5-piece, all-instrumental line-up. Their repertoire is based around the original compositions of piper Adam Quinn (formerly of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band).
• Latin musician Rubén Blades used Eric Rigler (of Bad Haggis, above) to play bagpipes on his Grammy-winning Mundo (2002). Rigler joined Blades on tour, later Blades joined Bad Haggis for their DVD project Span (2004).
• On her 1994 album The Mask and Mirror Canadian New Age Celtic singer Loreena McKennitt introduced the song "The Two Trees" with a piping solo intro. called "Ce He Mise Le Ulaingt?" ("Who Am I to Bear It?") with Uilleann pipes played by Patrick Hutchinson.
• A bagpipe was used in the 1965 song "I Love How You Love Me" by Nino Tempo & April Stevens.
• DRAM! is the latest band to employ bagpipes in an electronic/bagpipe fusion featuring the piper who played with Madonna, Lorne Cousin.
• On Eminem's album Relapse on the song "Bagpipes from Baghdad"
• E.J. Jones played Scottish smallpipes on the song, "The Traveling Storm," from Robert Earl Keen's CD, What I Really Mean
• In ICP's (Insane Clown Posse) song "Run" from a giveaway CD (CD also came with one of their comic books, song is also featured on several of their mix CD's) bagpipes are featured.
• Stefan Hannigan plays Uilleann pipes as part of the wedding band in an episode of Friends - "The One with Ross's Wedding".
• The Rogues, a kilted Rock/Celtic/Folk/Classical/World group from Texas is probably the single heaviest bagpiping group outside of Highland Games bands.
• Laurel Massé (formerly with Manhattan Transfer) used Great Highland bagpipes, played by Nancy Tunnicliffe, on her 2000 recording Feather and Bone.
• Composer John Powell used Great Irish Warpipes in the orchestral score of the 2010 feature film How to Train Your Dragon
• Bagpipes are featured on Cromagnon's song "Caledonia", the opening track of their 1969 album Orgasm
• Nobuo Uematsu incorporated bagpipes into the musical theme for the character Relm in Final Fantasy VI
• Mike Oldfield used a choir of bagpipes in the piece called Tattoo of his album Tubular Bells II.