Piping stylings of Jean-Yves lePape...

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:48 am

What are your opinions of his playing? He is certainly a very crisp player but his approach to the trad tunes sounds a little rushed to me. I almost feel exhausted listening to the entire album in one go.

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:05 am

straycat82 wrote:What are your opinions of his playing? He is certainly a very crisp player but his approach to the trad tunes sounds a little rushed to me. I almost feel exhausted listening to the entire album in one go.

Got a link to his stuff?

T

lordofthestrings · Post by **lordofthestrings** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:25 pm

his approach to the trad tunes sounds a little rushed to me. I almost feel exhausted listening to the entire album in one go.

I agree. They were nice tunes, but they seemed to just keep coming, with little pause, beat, articulation difference... I don't know how to describe it other than fast and furious. I know what you mean by feelign exhausted!!

"The Uilleann Pipes of Ireland" is the CD I have of his. Don't know if there are more. He certainly plays better than me, but I don't care for his style.

brescianimichele · Post by **brescianimichele** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:34 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Uilleann-Pipes-Ir ... 932&sr=1-2

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:35 pm

Yes, Uilleann Pipes of Ireland is the CD I was speaking of. I don't know if there are more. My cousin gave me the CD about a week ago and even though I am impressed with his skill on the instrument, I don't think he quite has his head wrapped around the tradition just yet... or maybe he's not aiming for that, I don't know anything about the fellow. His style almost sounds more like the tradition of the GHB, not really much lilt there.

Gawd that album cover is heinous!

Key_of_D · Post by **Key_of_D** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:56 pm

I think it's a nice change from the Pure Drop stuff.

And which album cover?

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:03 pm

Click the Amazon link above to see the album cover

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:54 pm

Not impressed.

Say, does anybody else feel creeped out by the body-less arms playing the pipes?

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:20 pm

Yes, creepy. The glow effect and the rainbow vomit color scheme doesn't do much for me either.

Yeah, the more I listen to this guy the more robotic it sounds. Just doesn't have much life to it.

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:23 am

Everyones a critic.

Pat.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:31 am

Everyone has their own personal tastes. The polite way to express this
on the forum is, "doesn't suit my personal tastes." That way you don't
run the risk of insulting other people's personal tastes, even if it really
is a piece of sh.........

djm

Jumper · Post by **Jumper** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:03 am

This image...

...is not so very different from

Only comparing the covers, mind you.

BZH29 · Post by **BZH29** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:42 am

Hello,

Joseph, some thread were locked for less .......

Even if you don't like the piping of Jean-Yves, it's a friend of mine and a good guy...shame on some of you for these way of writing on a forum....

kenavo
JLG.

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:46 am

Nobody is talking poorly of your man. Discussing his piping on a pipe forum in an objective an honest matter is not something to be ashamed of.

Regarding the above two graphics:
They're both pretty bad, IMO. I'm a graphic artist so I'm very opinionated on this stuff. Were I in the presence of the creating artist, I'd be more constructive with my criticism. If someone else is going to be that offended that I don't have the same taste of visual art (or music for that matter) then I think they need to harden up a bit.
I hate stuff like this because it pushes that "Celtic" new-agey image that too many folks already associate with a music that is much more deserving of better associations... this kind of stuff is at home on an Enya album cover.
Sorry for the topic drift... I'm done picking on the the graphics now.
Back to the piping discussion.

I also didn't realise that "Titanic" was a musical tradition

BZH29 · Post by **BZH29** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:05 pm

<<Nobody is talking poorly of your man. Discussing his piping on a pipe forum in an objective an honest matter is not something to be ashamed of.>>

Apologize Straycat, perhaps I've misunderstand ....

<<His style almost sounds more like the tradition of the GHB>> : you are right, Jean-Yves Le Pape is a GHB player too .

About these two covers , I think they are.......no, I can't say that ...

kenavo

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