
Depeche Mode on Songs of Faith and Devotion featured uilleann piper Steafan Hannigan on "Judas".Andrew (This Battle Is In The Air)" on their 2007 release Icky Thump. The White Stripes used Scottish smallpipes in their songs "Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn" and "St.Gwar, the US metal shock-horror fantasy combo use bagpipes in the song "The Horror of Yig" on the album Scumdogs of the Universe.Dick Caplan and Ted Nelson (coiner of the word "hypertext") combined a rock 'n' roll backbeat with a bagpipe riff in "The Rock-a-Doodle-Do", a short song that was part of an original but short-lived musical review called "Anything & Everything," recorded and released on an album in November, 1957.Scottish Duo Hamish Moore and Dick Lee recorded two albums, available on Greentrax, in the early 1990s.Canadian ensemble GUH use great highland bagpipe on all their recordings since 1992.Lammas from the U.K were around in the 1990s (winners of a British jazz award) and features Tim Garland trading licks and solos with Uilleann piper Steafan Hannigan (Sin E, Afro Celts) on a couple of albums.He also released the all bagpipe CD Skirl in 1999 featuring a variety of different percussion players, such as Cyro Baptista, and jazz drummer Tony Buck. A release from 1998 entitled Wax and Wane featured his bagpipe played in context with NYC downtown musicians like Ikue Mori, and turntablist Otomo Yoshihide. New Zealand/New York based musician David Watson released a new music composition for pipe bands on the Midwest Label in 1996.Peter Bennink, a Dutch saxophonist and the brother of drummer Han Bennink, also uses bagpipes in a jazz context.Katariin Raska, an Estonian Jew's harpist, uses the torupilli, an Estonian bagpipe variety, in an Avantgarde and experimental context.The American jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936–1970) used great highland bagpipe on Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (1969).Jean-Pierre Rasle, an expert player of French bagpipes, is featured in many releases by English bass player Jah Wobble.musician Rufus Harley (1936–2006) was the first jazz performer to use the Great Highland Bagpipes as his primary instrument. Illusion of Control, for uilleann pipes, saxophones, electronics and 3D visuals (2010), a collaboration between Pedro Rebelo (composition), Brian Cullen (3D visuals), Franziska Schroeder (soprano and tenor saxophones) and Ivan Goff (pipes) (see Youtube Video "Illusion of Control").

Ur Og and Aji, for 4 bagpipes, bass clarinet, and tabla by Canadian composer Michael O'Neill.Sinfonia mit Dudelsack und Drehleier "Die Bauernhochzeit" (Sinfonia with Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy "Peasant Wedding") by Leopold Mozart, first performed in 1756.Joan of Arc: An Opera in Three Acts (1993) by Steven Jobe includes bagpipes in the orchestra.Marc Mostovoy Roderick MacDonald, bagpipe) Arthur's Return, for bagpipes and string orchestra (1983) by John Davison (Commissioned by the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia and premiered in Dover, Delaware on September 23, 1983, by the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, dir.Cross Lane Fair for Northumbrian pipes and Orchestra by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (1984) by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.The Relief of Derry Symphony (1990), also by Shaun Davey, includes a highland pipe band.The Brendan Voyage (1983), The Pilgrim (1983) and Granuaile (1985), all by Shaun Davey, are orchestral works featuring the uilleann pipes.Bach features bagpipes as one of the six instruments.


