News !! -

New Album - Le Son Du Bois - Official release scheduled for early spring
(pre-release copies available now)
listen to previews at Phil's MYSPACE site

New Biography Page - Click here

Drohne on YouTube...
3 tracks from Drohne's performance at Broadstairs Folk Week have been placed on YouTube - Click on the Links below to see them
Dance Junkies
Bourree du Marc/in C minor/La Tricotada
1973 VW camper crossing the Rhine

Gigs ...

20th/22nd April - Lancaster Hurdy-Gurdy Festival

New Album (2008)

Le Son Du Bois

 

The CD's
Hurdy-Gurdy Mandrohne & Radio Noir
are available from Cube Roots
(http://www.cuberoots.com)

All albums now available as downloads from
Woven Wheat Whispers

1. The 1973 VW Camper Crossing The Rhine
2. Dance Junkies
3. Mazurka à Barnabé
4. Parquet Mischief
5. And Am I Born To Die
6. Droning Down To Rio
7. Coq au Shed
8. Like Howlin' Wolf
9. Let There Be Drones / Speed The Plough
10. The Life Of A Man
11. Transformations
12. Gulliver 2206
13. Land Without Stars
14. The Master Musicians

(samples coming soon)






Group Drohne
The gigging Band 2005 - 2006

"The willful obscurity of this bands
instrumentation" (Andy Kershaw)

"Melodic sketches ... impressive" (The Musician)

"Rousing stuff" (Froots)


Solo - In Concert 2006
Performing The Tigerlillies "Hailstones" - Margate Exodus
30th September 2006
(Margate Winter Gardens)

Hurdy-Gurdy Mandrohne (2005)

Click to download

1. Bouree du Marc / in C minor / La Tricotada
2. Rondo Hatton / Moll in the Wood
3. Drowning in the rain
4. Lamento di Tristano / La Rotta
5. Just as the tide was flowing
6. Bodmin riding
7. The brawling Scotsman
8. Adieu les filles de mon pays
9. In the dancing gardens of Babylon
10. Le quatre brandle
11. The Gower wassail
12. Lovely Joan
13. Hurdy-Gurdy man / Moresques

 

Radio Noir (2001)

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1. Radio noir
2. Black sands
3. Nottamun town
4. Sometimes good morris men don't always wear white
5. Night of the hanter dro
6. Lyke wake dirge / Vagabondage
7. Black shadow brawl
8. House of blue-eyed strangers
9. Dark passage
10. Hypnotised
11. A rove on the wild side
12. Cityscape reprise

 

 

Another Canterbury Tale
(Across the Centuries by Hurdy-Gurdy)

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1. C'est la Fin....
The Hermit
2. Summer is Icuming in
The Dance of the Glueman
3. Pilgims
The Rose Briar Headband
Androgenius Drones
Jan Mijn Wolfman
4. Greensleeves
Pavanne Rouge
Ye Olde Goddesses
Dobbin has a Rumble
Dobbin has Commenced Brawling
5. Astley's Park & Ride
Bold Princess Royal
6. Saturday Night in Arcadia
7. Dives and Lazarus
8. Stolen Moments

 

 

Vielle Sauvage

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s1.1. Auvergne Boureé
Au Vist Iou Loup
Boureé de saint Anon
s1.2. The Blacksmith
s1.3. Nonesuch / La morisque
s1.4. Boureé de Saint Plagium
s1.5. Winter Snow
s1.6. She moved through the fair
Valle e Pogradecit
s2.1 Boureé d'Aurore Sand
s2.2. Brandle de Bourgoigne
Dark girl dressed in Blue
s2.3. All Tomorrows Parties
Scottisch Pour Drella
s2.4. Transmanch Polka Set
Golden Slippers
Polka d'Avyron
s2.5 The end of Civilisation as we know it
Valse dernier a la fin de Siécle

 

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