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Post by vikingblues on May 8, 2021 8:59:27 GMT
Stumbled across this by accident.
I found it the most emotionally impacting acoustic live song I've heard for years. That was before i found out what the Norwegian lyrics meant - now it impacts yet more! Exquisite harmonies and the most lovely pedal notes / drones. All old instruments - deer hide drums and a Lur horn whose design dates back to the middle ages.
Hope it strikes a chord with others too.
Mark
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Post by NikGnashers on May 10, 2021 18:25:07 GMT
I liked this first listen, then I wasn't sure on 2nd listen, but now on 3rd listen I like it more than I did the first time.
Excuse the waffle.
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Post by Gregg Hermetech on May 22, 2021 12:32:46 GMT
Wardruna are great, if you liked that then you'd probably dig this too, full live show from Heilung:
Aurora's solo albums are grat too.
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Post by andrewjw on May 22, 2021 14:57:33 GMT
Yes well...lovely but has been done before.. In the interest of bringing @lakewoodlad and grayn [who liked this thread] back together...
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Post by vikingblues on May 22, 2021 19:06:31 GMT
Wardruna are great, if you liked that then you'd probably dig this too, full live show from Heilung: ....... Aurora's solo albums are grat too. I have listened to quite a few Wardruna tracks and while some, particularly the ones with strong enough female voice in the harmonies, none seem to get into the same league as this one song for me. It's like this song is speaking to me of my home, but one I've never seen or been in. Quite weird!
Heilung, like many of the bands in this genre have very harsh and throaty male vocals. Rather like a strong vibrato on a voice, I find it grates on me very quickly. The fashion for growly devils voice for male singers in the heavier genres also gets my finger twitching towards the off switch and has had me crossing so many bands off my music to hear list!
I would agree about Aurora - when I started skimming a few of her pieces having heard this collab, I was at first fairly neutral on what I heard. Then I heard "The Murder Song, 5 4 3 2 1" at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert and was mesmerised and hooked, and her style and songs suddenly made sense. A rare talent and a rare soul.
Yes well...lovely but has been done before.. Please can you point me in the right direction for that "been done before" Andrew! There is something about the particular harmonies in this one piece of music that raise it well above all the others of a similar ilk that I've heard. About time I used the word "ilk" in a post here! I'd love to find more to give me the same immersion and connection.
Mark
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Post by andrewjw on May 22, 2021 20:03:04 GMT
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Post by grayn on May 23, 2021 5:34:27 GMT
The whole pagan, shamanic vibe is very cool. Rhythmic chants are pretty primal.
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Post by vikingblues on May 23, 2021 11:29:16 GMT
There's something subtle at play .... On the one hand there's lovely pieces of music that are a great pleasure to listen to - harmonies and arrangements and instrumentation that make you very happy to hear and experience them. Like the Loreena McKennitt posted above - thanks Andrew! On the other hand, just very very occasionally, there is a song that seems hard-wired to the core of your being, to your true nature. Which is good luck, but just for you. That 'Helvegan' live song that started this thread being a case in point. I've heard the studio version and two other live versions. The performance I linked above is the only one of the four that moves me - at times it almost makes breathing difficult if my breathing is out of synch with the ebb and flow of the music. I have been having it frequently popping into my head during the day over the last few weeks, particularly when out dog-walking, even when I've not heard it for a few days. Not wanting to get too new age / hippy, I'd conjecture it might down to vibrations? Science leans in this direction these days too. Vibrations are all we are, and everything all around us is. So it makes sense that a particular set of vibrations transmitted could resonate in a very special way with your own vibrations? Some sort of synchronicity sometimes. Sadly it's so very rare. Not fair of me to ask for examples of "done before" music in this instance as examples will be negated by the above being at play. Silly of me to feel that others should have that special feeling too. I've had two major experiences of getting caught up totally with live music at concerts. 1. In the Pop/Rock field, unlikely as it is, in a tent outside in North Berwick at an Edinburgh fringe show by Maggie Bell. She had a break mid performance and her band played some electric blues numbers. In one of them ("Hoochie Coochie Man") I was totally absorbed into the music and was conscious of nothing else. It was a hell of a jolt coming back to reality at the end, like suddenly being shaken awake from deep sleep. All the more remarkable as I'd managed to blank out the incessant loud chatter from a load of very selfish audience members around us. I've never had a strong reaction to that song any other time, and not to the band either. 2. In the classical field, and I did go to quite a lot of classical concerts in my late teens / early 20s, a performance of Shostakovich 11 shook me. A Symphony the critics love to hate. The second movement, creating a musical picture of the 1905 massacre in Palace Square of unarmed civilians, builds up in a long gradual crescendo with much militaristic drums and percussion. Again totally caught up in it, and no longer aware of my surroundings. The movement finishes with a huge jump from extreme volume to silence. My pulse rate had increased to match the rhythm of the music and I could physically feel my heart beating. Never happened again. Don;t think it will. I vividly recall walking out of the hall after the concert and the traffic noise on the main roads was just a whisper. Don't really know where I'm going with this? It's miraculous when it happens, totally unpredictable, and frustrating in that it's not easily found. Sorry - long post! Mark
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Post by jangarrack on May 23, 2021 12:02:32 GMT
There's something subtle at play .... On the one hand there's lovely pieces of music that are a great pleasure to listen to - harmonies and arrangements and instrumentation that make you very happy to hear and experience them. Like the Loreena McKennitt posted above - thanks Andrew! On the other hand, just very very occasionally, there is a song that seems hard-wired to the core of your being, to your true nature. Which is good luck, but just for you. That 'Helvegan' live song that started this thread being a case in point. I've heard the studio version and two other live versions. The performance I linked above is the only one of the four that moves me - at times it almost makes breathing difficult if my breathing is out of synch with the ebb and flow of the music. I have been having it frequently popping into my head during the day over the last few weeks, particularly when out dog-walking, even when I've not heard it for a few days. Not wanting to get too new age / hippy, I'd conjecture it might down to vibrations? Science leans in this direction these days too. Vibrations are all we are, and everything all around us is. So it makes sense that a particular set of vibrations transmitted could resonate in a very special way with your own vibrations? Some sort of synchronicity sometimes. Sadly it's so very rare. Not fair of me to ask for examples of "done before" music in this instance as examples will be negated by the above being at play. Silly of me to feel that others should have that special feeling too. I've had two major experiences of getting caught up totally with live music at concerts. 1. In the Pop/Rock field, unlikely as it is, in a tent outside in North Berwick at an Edinburgh fringe show by Maggie Bell. She had a break mid performance and her band played some electric blues numbers. In one of them ("Hoochie Coochie Man") I was totally absorbed into the music and was conscious of nothing else. It was a hell of a jolt coming back to reality at the end, like suddenly being shaken awake from deep sleep. All the more remarkable as I'd managed to blank out the incessant loud chatter from a load of very selfish audience members around us. I've never had a strong reaction to that song any other time, and not to the band either. 2. In the classical field, and I did go to quite a lot of classical concerts in my late teens / early 20s, a performance of Shostakovich 11 shook me. A Symphony the critics love to hate. The second movement, creating a musical picture of the 1905 massacre in Palace Square of unarmed civilians, builds up in a long gradual crescendo with much militaristic drums and percussion. Again totally caught up in it, and no longer aware of my surroundings. The movement finishes with a huge jump from extreme volume to silence. My pulse rate had increased to match the rhythm of the music and I could physically feel my heart beating. Never happened again. Don;t think it will. I vividly recall walking out of the hall after the concert and the traffic noise on the main roads was just a whisper. Don't really know where I'm going with this? It's miraculous when it happens, totally unpredictable, and frustrating in that it's not easily found. Sorry - long post! Mark This has turned into a fascinating thread and your sharing of your experiences help me to better understand some of the strange music related feelings I have had in the past, particularly my experience with the didgeridoo man referred in my post in, Look at how much fun you can have with two sticks and repeated below. When I worked in Truro, there was a busker there who played a didgeridoo and drum in a pedestrian underpass where there was a lot of resonance. I only saw him there a few times, but remember the first time I heard it, I could hear it quite a way from the underpass getting louder as I got nearer, then as I walked fully into the underpass it was like being completely swallowed up by something more than a sound, it was totally immersive quite magical and hypnotic in fact for some reason I also found it quite emotional. The sound certainly had some kind strong magnetic draw to it. Most people passed him without a second glance or even slowing down, so I wondered if it was just me who felt so affected by it, maybe I was just having a funny day. Either way, I wish I taken more time to speak with him instead of just saying, "That was great." Jeff
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Post by grayn on May 23, 2021 15:16:43 GMT
Nice to get in touch with your own roots.
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Post by andrewjw on May 23, 2021 15:42:25 GMT
James Taylor has twice had the effect on me that Mark describes above...both times opening his concert with "There's something in the way she moves" Once at the Lincoln folk festival back in the 1971 ...the line up included Sandy Denny , Tom Paxton, Ralph Mc T , The Byrds , Buffy St Marie , Steeleye Span , Pentangle , Tim Hardin and others!! www.rockmusicmemorabilia.com/productdetails.php?catid=3&pid=11The whole festival [the first I'd ever been to ] was a stream of utter magic ...despite having sat in the back of a mini van all the way down from Edinburgh. The second time was more recently at Powderham Castle near Exeter in 2004.. Both events were blessed with fabulous weather with the sun setting as JT came on stage..
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Post by vikingblues on May 29, 2021 11:49:48 GMT
Great to hear other tales of these sometimes very unexpected but always wonderful intense musical experiences. Usually when I say about these things to people they look at me as if I've grown an extra head, and start to rapidly move in the direction of away! Mark
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