Rare & Strange Instruments - Orchestra of Samples

We're in France, taking the opportunity to meet and record the incredible multi-instrumentalist Nicolas Bras from the website Rare and Strange Instruments. We'd both become aware of each other and our respective projects in the last couple of years, realising we also know a lot of people in common so heading over to Paris seemed the natural thing to do! His rather well known Facebook page now has over half a million followers and (in his words) is "dedicated to every unusual, creative, traditional, forgotten, experimental and original musical instrument". You'll no doubt know someone who follows his page and a short video posted there of someone on a mountain playing a bizarre instrument has surely turned up in your feed at some point!

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