Drumspyder

The Earl's Chair 31.07.2023 4:00 ↓

An Irish reel , the first track on my new album, "Elfhame"

Aandowin at the Bow 31.07.2023 4:09 ↓

A Shetland islands reel - also includes the melody of the Scottish song "Mormond Braes"

Cutty Wren 31.07.2023 3:45 ↓

A song of uncertain origins which some say goes back to the Middle Ages.

Of The Mystery Sing 31.07.2023 4:08 ↓

Based on the medieval chant "Pange Lingua Gloriosi", attributed to Thomas Aquinas

A Fig For A Kiss 31.07.2023 4:12 ↓

A slip jig in 9/8 time. Also includes part of the song "Black is the Color" (Vocals : Iona Leigh)

O'Keefe's Slide 31.07.2023 4:15 ↓

O'Keefe's Slide by Drumspyder

Mirie It Is While Sumer Ilast 31.07.2023 4:00 ↓

"Merry it is while summer lasts" . An instrumental version of the oldest secular English song with surviving musical notation, dating back to the 13th century.

Rose In The Heather 30.07.2023 4:47 ↓

An Irish jig - also includes the melody of "She Moved through the Fair" , played on the low whistle.

Imbolc 2023 Mix 26.01.2023 59:58 ↓

For the emerging new year, and new listeners... an introduction to my current musical flow. All tracks by Drumspyder Time - Track (Album) 0:00 - The Birds (Sunne and Mona) 4:27 - Lovely Joan (Kenning) 8:20 - The Braes of Tullymet (Sunne and Mona) 11:58 - Bobbing Joe (Sunne and Mona) 16:04 - Wind God (Kenning) 19:53 - Battle of the Boyne (Calls from the Wood) 24:15 - Sweven (Sunne and Mona) 27:44 -...

Winter Nights 31.07.2022 4:07 ↓

Based on a "Da Cold Nights o'Winter" , a Christmas song from the Shetland Islands.

Scots Branle 31.07.2022 3:53 ↓

Based on a Renaissance dance

The Braes Of Tullymet 31.07.2022 3:50 ↓

Based on a strathspey from James Hunter's "Fiddle Music of Scotland"

Sweven 30.07.2022 3:39 ↓

The first track of eight on my album "Sunne and Mona" (Sun and Moon). The title "Sweven" is the Middle English word for "dream" ; the track renders an antique Scottish melody into a deep framedrum rhythm, with whistle, medieval harp, and a touch of dreamlike ambience... Based on the tune "Mrs. McPherson of Gibton" from James Hunter's "Fiddle Music of Scotland"

Drummond Castle 30.07.2022 4:20 ↓

Based on a Scottish jig

The Birds 30.07.2022 4:14 ↓

Based on an Irish hornpipe

Tralee Gaol 30.07.2022 4:00 ↓

Tralee Gaol by Drumspyder

Bobbing Joe 30.07.2022 4:00 ↓

Based on an English Renaissance melody from Playford's "Dancing Master"

Wind God 22.07.2021 4:05 ↓

Based on the Gregorian chant melody "Laus Deo Patri"

Work Songs 22.07.2021 4:13 ↓

Based on the Scottish "Mile Marbhaisg Air A'Gaol" (A thousand curses on love) and the sailor song "Roll Boys Roll", with hurdy-gurdy, whistle and melodion.

Ballydesmond Polkas 22.07.2021 4:18 ↓

Based on two Irish polkas, with framedrums, tamborine, whistle, and Appalachian dulcimer.

Star On The Mountain 22.07.2021 5:08 ↓

Based on the medieval song "Stella Splendens in Monte" from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, a collection of 14th century devotional songs from the Montserrat monastery in eastern Spain.

The Dunmore Lasses 21.07.2021 4:10 ↓

The first track on the "Kenning" EP, an Irish reel with pulsing bass , tamborine and frame drum beats, and whistle.

Lovely Joan 20.07.2021 4:20 ↓

Based on an English folksong, with rolling bass, tamborine, whistle, harmonium and autoharp.

Kesh 19.03.2021 3:51 ↓

The popular Irish jig combined with an interlude of the Scottish tune "Come Under My Plaidy"

Anglia 19.03.2021 4:07 ↓

My first interpretation of a medieval polyphonic piece. The Agincourt Carol (sometimes known as "Deo Gratias Anglia") is a English choral composition in 3 parts which commemorates the battle of Agincourt in 1415.