Let’s take a little trip off the beaten path this morning with some pipe music. The first video is called

100 Каба гайди, Сос ма караш, майчинко, 100 Kaba Gaidi

For those of you interested in a little more information,
Орк. 100 Каба гайди,
Сюита:
“Сос ма караш, майчинко”,
“Радо, мари Радо”,
“Ой момиченце, червен трендафил”,
“Ситнежи”
Bulgarian Folklore.
Rhodope Region.

And now,

Kostadin Atanasov & Dafo Trendafilov – kaba gaidaKostadin Atanasov and His teacher Dafo Trandafilov-the masters of kaba gaida

Rhodope Bagpipe Competition, Gela 2011

So often, we’re presented with music that all has the same old instrumentation, guitars, bass, drums, as it that’s the start and finish of it all. Ho hum. As Sun Ra once said, there are worlds they have not told you of. Even within the bagpipe universe, there is quite a spectrum of musical possibility. I hope you enjoyed this little taste today.