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AGENT STARLING RELEASE EUROPEAN HOWL Agent Starling’s debut album, European Howl releases on all the usual digital outlets on May 4th, 2021 with a special preview offer on Bandcamp from today. And it's Bandcamp Friday, so there's no better day to download it and support artists at the same time. The ten-track album is brimful … Continue reading Agent Starling release European Howl
Welcome to Helicopter Arms, the brand new video by Agent Starling aka Lou Loudhailer & Quentin Budworth. It is our composition, the next preview track from our album released later in the year. It's inspired by Quentin's glorious hurdy gurdy tune which the song is based around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EMw-CL-MKM&ab_channel=LoudhailerUK The video features a set of close … Continue reading Helicopter Arms by Agent Starling
Released today! I Dream of the Wine Dark Sea by Agent Starling aka Lou Loudhailer & Quentin Budworth. This is our composition, inspired by the pictures in a book of Greek tales of old that I treasured as a child, and read many times. It was originally published in 1853. My copy is from 1938, … Continue reading I Dream of the Wine Dark Sea
The continuing adventures of the Leconauts Season 22 The Adventure of the Leconauts and the Italian Vogue You have landed at the place where you can experience the continuing chronicles of the Loudhailer Electric Company mothership and crew. Starring Leconauts Captain Lou Loudhailer, Sonic Architect Parsons, Ricardo the Astral Bard and Bombardier Legg. Written by Loudhailer … Continue reading The Adventures of the Leconauts Season 22
Welcome to Agent Starling, Lou Loudhailer and Quentin Budworth's new musical collaborative adventure. Loudhailer Electric Company captain Lou has teamed up with Celtarabia chief Quentin who spent the year before lockdown touring Europe meeting with other top hurdy-gurdy players exchanging tunes, techniques and experiences. Hurdy-gurdy by Quentin Budworth, other instruments by Lou Loudhailer. Expect lots … Continue reading Agent Starling
This song has been going round in my head for days, weeks even. I remember being moved by John Prine's evocative and nostalgic songs as a child, and was sad when he died of Covid-19 last year. He tells the story of how he imagined the protagonist, a woman of 46, standing at the sink … Continue reading Angel From Montgomery