Pipes of Peace

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Pipes of Peace' [subtitled 'For God's Sake'] is a musical documentary of the 'troubles' that have held up the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the people of the partitioned six counties of Northern Ireland for 30 years. Includes actual background audio of the BBC describing various sectarian terrorism in the British province...

Story Behind the Song:

The music was written in a loft, on a baby grand on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe [While performing at Squaw Valley] in the week up to Christmas, 1983.

It was originally recorded in late summer 1986 at Central Recording Studios, Bower View, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland in an analogue environment in two sessions. The first session for piano, drums, bass and the BBC audio background; and for the subsequent session, I found an Uilleann piper [representing Catholicism] and a Scottish piper [representing Protestantism] for the symbolic representation of the two religious traditions heard in the track.

For the remix completed 07/06/02, I re-recorded some drum parts, added dulcimer, harp, tin whistle and church bells [for invective] which adds considerably to the dynamic.

I never considered the composition in the context that it exists now, and it is my fondest hope, that the senseless civil war in Northern Ireland can have an ultimate resolution...

---Leland Thomas Faegre

Credits: Recorded in Ireland and the U.S.A.; Mixed and Mastered by J. Brandon Parrott at Cavebear Productions; and Michael French at Down to Hear Productions; Engineered and Mastered by Patrick Collins at Collinator Studios; Arranged, Written, Produced and Performed by Leland Thomas Faegre

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[PrettyLittleHead]

Imagery aside, THE MUSIC IS BEAUTIFUL!..Very dramatic with a kind of meloncholy to it...Very emotional! The music is crying...

[lfaegre]

@PrettyLittleHead Thanks so much for taking the time to comment where others have not. Your artistic interpretation of this composition is exactly what I was painting in the production. Perhaps like no other historical conflict, this instrumental documentary is a plea and a prayer...

[TheMcKinnz]

Great video! Love the music!

[TomBarry192I]

Brits out