Name: Amy Darby
Instruments: Vocals, woodwind, theremin, percussion, guitar, celtic harp, keyboards
Discography: Thieves' Kitchen "Shibboleth" 2003 The Thin Blues Line (self-titled) 1999
Five indispensable recordings: Joni Mitchell "Hejira" Elgar "Cello Concerto in E Minor (Op.85)" Charles Mingus "Mingus Ah Um" Loreena McKennitt "The Mask and Mirror" Afro Celt Sound System "Volume 1: Sound Magic"
Currently listening to: Jethro Tull "Songs from the Wood" Kansas "Leftoverture" Joni Mitchell "Court and Spark" Pumajaw "Becoming Pumajaw"
Five inspiring people: Loreena McKennitt William Morris Frank Zappa Mary Wollstonecraft Robert Lenkiewicz
Equipment: Buffet Crampon Bb Clarinet Yamaha Baroque tenor recorder Aulos descant recorder Earth Tone Native American concert drone flute in F# minor Moog Etherwave theremin Line 6 POD Kambala 13" djembe traditionel RhythmTech percussion Various ethnic percussion 38-string Clarsach Celtic harp
Favourite quote: "Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." - George Bernard Shaw
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