Pipehacker Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Vintage Bagpiping Bundle by Vince Janoski

Today’s Highland bagpiper has never had more media and music at their fingertips. The internet, expanding interest, and the number of live events all feed one another to create an ever-expanding reservoir of quality music. But such was not always the case. Once upon a time, CDs and print music releases were few and far [...]

Pipehacker Review: A Unan by Vince Janoski

Sometimes all you need is a good bagpipe and a good tune. Breton pipers Xavier Boderiou, Sylvain Hamon, Hervé Le Floc’h, and Alex Meunier realize this as well and have produced an album of bagpipe music that is truly, all about the bagpipes and the tunes. A Unan (translation from the Breton: “Of One”) takes [...]

Pipehacker Review: Treacherous Orchestra by Vince Janoski

When you first look at their album cover for Origins, Treacherous Orchestra appears as if it is just the latest thrash metal group or DJ-dance-hall-fusion-electronica band. Never would you suspect an ensemble that pays a great deal of homage to their Celtic traditional roots and puts forth a sound that is like a Scottish country [...]