It's so Archy Jay of Kerala in India, who goes by the nom de show business "The Snake Charmer," could create a metal cover of the theme song from Marvel Studios' The Avengers.
On the bagpipes.
Jay's work is why the idea of "cultural appropriation" as a pejorative is utterly without merit. After hearing a piper play with a Swiss metal band, Jay turned from performing as a singer in her own metal outfit to the idea of playing the pipes herself. Unable to find a teacher where she lived, she began e-mailing pipers across the world to see if anyone could help her learn via online instruction until one did.
Her YouTube channel features several metal/pipe crossovers, and her cover of some songs by the American metal band Lamb of God drew the attention of the band's drummer, who posted links to them on his own Facebook page.
Jay crossed some more borders in March of this year, when she teamed up with the American piper Chelsea Joy (the "Dame of Drones") and Scottish piper Jane Espie (the "Phantom Piper") to record a mashup cover of the Dropkick Murphys' "Shipping up to Boston" and Metallica's "Enter Sandman."
I have run out of words.
(PS. If you were asking, does the chanter on her pipes emerge from a stylized dragon's head, the answer is yes, of course it does.)
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