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Patricia Büchler[2] (born 1997), known professionally as Patty Gurdy, is a hurdy-gurdy musician, singer, songwriter, and vlogger from Germany.

Patty Gurdy
Büchler performing at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in 2022
Born	Patricia Büchler 1997 (age 24–25)[1] Ratingen, Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Known for	Solo music, Storm Seeker
Notable work	Carnival Row soundtrack
Style	Folk Folk-Pop
Website	https://pattygurdy.com/startseite.html

Early life and career

Büchler was born in 1997. She lived in Düsseldorf while she studied there and graduated in 2019. She earned a bachelor's degree in communication design.[3] After playing the piano and other instruments for many years, she took up the hurdy-gurdy in 2014[4] and describes her genre as "dark folk-pop".[4][5] She was a member of German bands Harpyie, under the stage name Io, in 2016[6] and Storm Seeker[5][7] from 2016–2018. Her 2019 festival performances included Smaabyfestivalen in Flekkefjord, Norway[8] and Tredegar House folk festival in Newport, Wales.[9]

Patty released her first EP, Shapes & Patterns, on March 2, 2018.[10] This included 3 original tracks and 3 cover songs. She released a single entitled Run on August 30, 2019.[11] A second single, Oil, premiered on September 13, 2019.[12] On September 27, 2019, she released her first full-length album, Pest & Power, which was composed mostly of original work.[13][14] This album featured many guest appearances from well-known names, including Faun.[15] During this time, she also wrote music for the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row.[16] On November 22, 2019, Patty released the single Grieve No More (Extended Version),[17] a song written for that series. Another EP was released on November 20, 2020, entitled Frost & Faeries[18] and including a Christmas-themed collaboration between Patty Gurdy and Fiddler's Green, The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time is Coming 'Round Today).[19] Her cover of Bad Habits (originally by Ed Sheeran) was released on October 30, 2021.[20] In addition to playing the hurdy-gurdy, she also recorded the nyckelharpa for this single. Another single, Universe Night & Day, premiered on May 24, 2022.[21] This song was released alongside the instrumental version, Universe Night & Day (Instrumental).

She formed her live band Patty Gurdy's Circle with members of Subway to Sally. The band's musicians were Bodenski, Simon Michael, and Ingo Hampf, along with Patty, who added vocals and the hurdy-gurdy.[22] Together they released one single, entitled Kalte Winde, on April 23, 2020.[23] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Patty Gurdy's Circle was forced to disband.

Her collaborations include ASP,[5] Alestorm,[24] Faun,[25] and Ayreon.[26] She has also worked with the metal band Scardust. In July 2019, she went on tour with Scardust in the United Kingdom.[27][28] On March 22, 2022, she played her first concert outside of Europe with Scardust in Israel,[29] which was livestreamed on Play2Fund.[30][31] Patty was originally supposed to play this concert in March of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was not allowed to travel into Israel. Instead, she sent videos of herself to be shown at the Scardust concert without her. She guests in Scardust's music video for their song Concrete Cages, on which she played the hurdy-gurdy and sang.[32] Patty also appears in dArtagnan's single Farewell (released in 2021), in addition to performing live with the band.[33][34] In 2022, she collaborated with metal band Silverlane on their song Für Immer und Ewig.[35] On June 17, 2022, Patty announced that she arranged part of the soundtrack for the video game Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure (part of the Earthlock series of video games).[36][37] On July 8, 2022, she released her part of the soundtrack as the single Piratehog Chant.[38]

Reception

• Pirate Scum (Storm Seeker, 2016), Metal.de said "Patty ... does a fantastic job in songs like "The Longing". Timo's and Patty's vocals complement each other in this way. The successful folk melodies, which then pound the listener and are then contrasted again by Patty's expressive voice, provide the necessary portion of goosebumps."[39] (Google translation from German)
• Shapes & Patterns EP (2018) included a cover of Over the Hills and Far Away. The Rockoutstandout reviewer wrote "Patty Gurdy’s cover with a hurdy-gurdy and vocals gives us a completely different take on the song altogether and it works very well. The echo effect on the vocals give this track that well know powerful atmosphere that the original song is able to do. I love this quirky cover and I always feel a sense of warmth when hearing the song."[40]
• Review of Pest & Power album (2019) by Permafrost.today. "The Hurdy Gurdy is not only embedded in her name, but her music is directly translated from her mind into the green wooden body. Patty Gurdy has established not only the instrument, but herself as a versatile artist, singer and songwriter."
• Guest appearance on Alestorm's album Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020). The Moshville Times reviewer said "More guest vocals feature on the epic “Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship” courtesy of Patty Gurdy (Patty Gurdy’s Circle) who also plays hurdy-gurdy throughout the album. I’ll tell you this, she’s got an amazing voice! This is a song that you’d expect to sound sillier than it does, but in this case it’s the vocals that are a bit daft while the music itself is as straight-laced as could be."[24]

Discography

As Patty Gurdy

Albums and EPs

Year	Title	Type
2018	Shapes & Patterns	EP
2019	Pest & Power	Album
2020	Frost & Faeries	EP

Singles

Year	Title	Notes
2019	Run
2019	Oil
2019	Grieve No More (Extended Version)	Carnival Row soundtrack
2021	Bad Habits	Ed Sheeran cover
2022	Universe Night & Day

Music videos

Year	Title	Album/EP	Notes
2016	Gurdy's Green	Shapes & Patterns
2017	The Longing	Shapes & Patterns	Storm Seeker cover
2017	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)	Shapes & Patterns	Eurythmics cover
2017	Game of Thrones	Shapes & Patterns	title song of the Game of Thrones series
2017	The Longing (Karaoke/Instrumental)	Shapes & Patterns	lyric video for instrumental version of Storm Seeker cover
2018	Over the Hills and Far Away	Shapes & Patterns	Gary Moore cover
2019	Run	Pest & Power
2019	Oil	Pest & Power
2019	Luring	Pest & Power	with Faun
2019	Grieve No More	Frost & Faeries	Carnival Row soundtrack
2020	One by One	Pest & Power	with Hellscore
2020	Leaves and Lemons	Pest & Power
2020	The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time Is Coming 'Round Today)	Frost & Faeries	with Fiddler's Green
2020	Molly Malone	Frost & Faeries	Irish traditional
2021	Horizon Turns Red	Frost & Faeries
2021	Flower Duet Theme	Frost & Faeries	Lakmé opera cover
2021	Bad Habits[41]	TBA	Ed Sheeran cover
2021	The Parting Glass	TBA	Scottish traditional
2021	Lora Lie Lo[42]	Frost & Faeries	Carnival Row soundtrack
2022	The Night Our Ship Will Drown	Pest & Power	partial music video
2022	No One Knows Who I Am	TBA	Jekyll & Hyde musical cover
2022	Universe Night & Day	TBA
2022	Piratehog Chant	TBA	Earthlock soundtrack
2022	Running Up That Hill[43]	TBA	Kate Bush cover

Guest appearances

Year	Title	Album/EP	Notes
2019		ASP's album Zaubererbruder Live & Extended (2019)[44]
2019	Grieve No More and Lora Lie Lo	Carnival Row soundtrack[45]	Two songs written for the character Aisling Querelle[46]
2020	Concrete Cages	Scardust's album Strangers	Also with Hellscore
2020	Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship (vocals and hurdy-gurdy) and Big Ship Little Ship[47]	Alestorm's album Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)[24]
2020		Ayreon album Transitus
2020	Kaufmann und Maid	Saltatio Mortis album Kaufmann und Maid	German for: "Merchant and Damsel",[48] with Sasha, Saltatio Mortis, Feuerschwanz, Subway to Sally, Tanzwut, Schandmaul and dArtagnan.[49] This song is a parody related to the German TV show Late Night Berlin[50]
2020	One of a large group performing Drunken Sailor	Fiddler's Green 2020 album 3 Cheers For 30 Years[51]
2021	Farewell	dArtagnan album Feuer & Flamme
2022	Für Immer und Ewig	Silverlane album Inside Internal Infinity

As Patty Gurdy's Circle

Single

Year	Title
2020	Kalte Winde

Music video

Year	Title	Album/EP
2020	Kalte Winde	non-album single

External links

• Patty Gurdy's channel on YouTube
• Official website

References

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