Welcome to Agent Starling, Lou Duffy-Howard and Quentin Budworth’s musical adventure, with special guest Dexter Duffy-Howard. Brimful of catchy hurdy-gurdy tunes, new songs, hypnotic drones, vocal harmonies, live bass grooves & strings, all with an experimental edge.
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Three albums available from Bandcamp here: https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/music
News! We have a new Agent Starling album coming out in spring, and the preview track and video is our story of Jokul Frosti, the Norse mythological character, who embodies the cold winter.
You can get it on Bandcamp here: https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/track/jokul-frosti and watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYclRuVdUlc
Our composition, inspired by Greek tales of old …
This is our first album preview track, Drive the Cold Winter Away also featuring Dexter Duffy-Howard on violin & cello.
“Experimental hurdy-gurdy on duo’s impressive debut. European Howl is a complex, immersive and at times disorienting listening experience.” (Tony Gillam, SONGLINES July 2021)
“Sounding like the musical offspring of Sufjan Stevens and Steve Reich” (Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music August 2022)
“(Constellation of Birds) is compelling, demanding, progressive, and fuses a range of cross-cultural folk-based sounds and moods. The album challenges and stretches boundaries, and occasionally – in a good way – feels slightly unhinged, but I absolutely love it when musicians dare to tread forth where many would turn on their heels and run.” (John Reed Fatea Magazine)
“I doubt very much that you will hear anything quite like this anywhere else in current music… Truly wondrous.” (Neil March Trust the Doc Issue 62)
“This is wonderful. It has a feeling of antiquity and a feeling of something new. The music is a blast and the images are a constant wow.” Dan Kellaway (Luthier)
