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Post by twilightheart on Jan 27, 2005 18:10:42 GMT 2
Very long, but very interesting story, Zorbas! I´m gonna check out some more of the albums you mentioned, I think. I don`t know, if this album really still is folk music... it´s almost only metal to my opinion. Only the lyrics still remind me of folk music... and some very very short parts maybe.
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Post by HerraHirwi on Jan 27, 2005 18:50:35 GMT 2
Very long, but very interesting story, Zorbas! I´m gonna check out some more of the albums you mentioned, I think. Thanks! Check out also some traditional folk albums too. I'm sure you find these too very interesting. In my site, there's links to it. I don`t know, if this album really still is folk music... it´s almost only metal to my opinion. Only the lyrics still remind me of folk music... and some very very short parts maybe. It's not folk at all. Thyrfing is the only viking-metal band I've ever liked. (I've always been more interested from our own mythology and Kalevala rather than viking mytologies..) I like the album, because it's sung almost as a whole in Swedish, and it's progressive. And it's a very own kind of stuff. And yet: in the album, there's used a Swedish folk instruments: nyckelharpa!!
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Post by frostheim on Jan 27, 2005 18:58:16 GMT 2
I've been into heavier music since '89, but I've always liked traditional-style tones as well. However it was first around '96-'97 when my interest to many kinds of heathen- and folk-elemented musical art started to greatly increase compared to previous years; in the very beginning everything related to the Scandinavian heritage was above all, but as the time passed and lots of things came by, I become familiar with more and more eastern traditions, history and art, which is the way surely even today, and thus I'm nowadays mostly into traditional Finno-Ugric, Baltic and Slavonic music, but of course also into some of the few good heathen- and black metal bands from the last mentioned areas, in every case much more than any of the Scandinavian bands ever did in the past. In addition to everything mentioned above, the other musical interests nowadays are ie. modern and progressive metal, but also many sorts of space- and dark ambient & electronics and even industrial music in small amounts. Without mentioning separate bands, here's my CD-list to give the picture what I'm most into for now. In the beginning of January '98 I officially founded my first band, namely a solo-project named Talvi ("winter" in Eng.), that had it's core in Nordic-style melodies, but then again had it's themes in my own fantasy world, about which I even wrote a novel of some sort during '98-'02 (and never got it finished because I'm not in to fantasy themes anymore). The first demo containing Nordic-influenced synth music was released in the spring '01, and the next demo with more metallic sound was meant to be finished till the end of '03, but got never done because of lack of interest to this project. Officially the story of Talvi got it's end in the autumn '04, although no more material had been done or even been planned for over a year or so. Back in the autumn '02 I actually just happened to start a project called "Kuuraparta" ("frostbeard" or so), that had it's core in the Finnish national instrument, namely kantele, but the material started to form first in the end of '03 and the beginning of '04; the first, self-titled demo came out in April '04, after which the whole project changed it's name to Nostatus ("invocating", "waking/raising up"...), and along with the new material I began to more and more discover and develop the form, direction and the real spirit of my band. The first release, namely a self-published s/t -MCD under the name of Nostatus came out in the beginning of November '04, and at the moment I'm working on the next release that has even more progression, advancing and development, as well as even more traditions all over in it. Recently I've come across with even newer entities and dimensions in traditional music in general; I've began to be interested also in Asian cultures, namely Tuvinian and Mongolian, which have their own traditions in throat singing of many sorts; I've started to practice ie. kargyraa and khöömei, and although I'm still quite novice at the moment, I'm striving for using a throat singing in my own material someday, although my music for that matter has its origin and core in Finnish and Baltic kantele- and runo-singing traditions, however being itself so called post-traditional heathen art of my very own. About my instruments can be read in this thread: jonne.proboards22.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=ChitChat&thread=1105134988&start=15I introduced myself to Hittavainen and Frostheim, and we had same thoughts about founding a band, which would play folk-based music. We found a band called Sahtiwaari. But Sahtiwaari changed to beer-humour-Rölli troll wanck's - kind of music.. (you DON'T wanna know more) Hahaha, and we won't tell even if any one really ever wanted. ;D
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Post by Xe4ro on Jan 30, 2005 4:57:59 GMT 2
Uhw ... ~1 year ago someone send me the track "Before The Morning Sun" ... i thought .. 'Hey , that rocks" ;D ... then time flow over the land ... blabla ... saw the cd on emp.de ... buoght it on amazon.de ... yeah ... and thats it
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Post by DaveTheRake on Feb 2, 2005 13:02:54 GMT 2
Judith, grrrrreeeat topic!
Well, I just owe everything to Leitisdal. He was the one that introduced me to Korpiklaani and folk-metal. I'm noty sure but I think he first lend me "Norwegian Native Art" and something from Ensiferum. Then he sgtarted talking about a Finnish band called Korpiklaani which were incredible. I know Raul get overdoses with some music very often and then forgets about it, so at first I didn't pay much attention to him but I had liked the "Norwegian..." album and one day, after class we went to some disc-shops in Madrid and in one he bought Korpiklaani's Spirit, Finntroll's Jakten's and two more... I bought 20 Años y Un Dia from a SPanish old band, Ñu, which formerly was my favourite Spanish one, a band like Jethro Tull but much more heavier. When we were on the underground we started looking at Korpiklaani's booklet and I really found it very interesting... you know, the costumes, the lyrics, and one detail which talked great about them, when they say "Korpiklaani wants to thank YOU"... this little detail told me a lot about how humble and fucking A people the boys were. So the next step was downloading the Wooden Pints video, which I liked a lot, then we (Leitisdal and me) visited the web page, left some messages to Jonne... and HE ANSWERED!!! we knew then that this one was gonna be our band! We went into the forum and a year has passed since then. Leitisdal lend me a lot of albums since then, Thyrfing, Otyg, Finntroll etc etc, and I found some similarities with the band I listened to more those days, In Extremo. It's funny because one year ago or so I were in the middle of a crisis, I didn't find anything new on metal, and I was a bit tired of the same bands; also my personal situation had driven me to a mood in wehich I prefered to listen to Springsteen accoustic songs rather than happy tunes... but with all those folk-metal bands I found the light at the end of the tunnel again and now I adore the rock classics as Jethro Tull, but also feel again ok with old metal.
A bit sentimental, maybe??? Sorry
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Post by ShamanRunedancer on Feb 2, 2005 13:38:12 GMT 2
Judith, grrrrreeeat topic! Thank you!!! And thank you all for the great replies! Dave,I was waiting for your posting! I discovered Korpiklaani one year ago by accident at the ebay-page.I`d never listened to folk-metal before,I didn`t know anything about the genre,I just knew the name "Finntroll",that was all. At this time I started to get a little bit interested in nordic mythology and things like this but this was not the concrete reason why I looked at the ebay page in the CD-category.But I think it was one of the reasons why I liked the description of the "Spirit of the Forest"so much.The other reason I can`t explain,I just read it and although I din`t know this kind of music I felt directly:"Wonderful!That`s it!I must buy it!" So I bought it and fell in love with it. Because of Korpiklaani and my growing interest in nordic mythology I started to get interested in the folk/pagan/viking-metal-genre.I still don`t have many folk-metal-CD`s but I will change it.I think I will check out Ensiferum(That I also found at ebay together with Korpiklaani but didn`t buy although I liked it) and Thyrfing next.
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Post by ShamanRunedancer on Feb 2, 2005 13:54:47 GMT 2
and one detail which talked great about them, when they say "Korpiklaani wants to thank YOU"... this little detail told me a lot about how humble and fucking A people the boys were.[...] then we (Leitisdal and me) visited the web page, left some messages to Jonne... and HE ANSWERED!!! we knew then that this one was gonna be our band! Yes,this are good reasons to become a fan!Korpiklaani`s attitude related to their fans is really grrreat! A bit sentimental, maybe??? Sorry No,just honest!I like it! P.S. I don`t know "Norwegian Native Art" ???Which band made this CD?
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Post by Humppaporo on Feb 2, 2005 14:33:48 GMT 2
'Norwegian native art' is made by Einherjer.
But what DaveThe Rake says count also for me: When I heard Korpiklaani's album 'Spirit of the forest', I got curious and visited their site several times, and sometimes I read the forum.
After several months I decided to registrate, because Korpliklaani's music is as great as their attitude. I know hardly any band so symphathetic and close to their fans.
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Post by Xe4ro on Feb 2, 2005 15:29:46 GMT 2
After several months I decided to registrate, because Korpliklaani's music is as great as their attitude. I know hardly any band so symphathetic and close to their fans. Yeah , i only know one more band who are recently talks with their fans ^^ ... Nightrage , but i dont are active there anymore ...
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Post by MaliceGarden on Feb 2, 2005 15:33:33 GMT 2
im in the cruachan and stormlord forum and they talk with us.
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Post by frostheim on Feb 2, 2005 21:48:35 GMT 2
- - and they talk with us. No doubt. Usually people talk with each other. And usually the artists belong to these people-beings as well.
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Post by Jonne on Feb 2, 2005 23:55:44 GMT 2
No doubt. Usually people talk with each other. And usually the artists belong to these people-beings as well. Correct. Other guys of the band read the forum quite often so they know what`s going on here all the time as well. Now it`s only Hittavainen, JuhoKusti and me who writes for some reason.
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Post by twilightheart on Feb 3, 2005 0:13:32 GMT 2
Yeah , i only know one more band who are recently talks with their fans Oooh, you`re very unlucky with your other favourite bands then! I can´t even imagine this... Almost all my favourite bands are talking/ mailing/ chatting with their fans.... Vintersorg, Naglfar, Moonsorrow, Finntroll, Thyrfing, etc. etc. / I even mailed with Quorthon for some months, when he was still alive. Okay, but I DO understand that maybe bands like Metallica just don´t have the time to answer to the flood of mails they probably get....
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Post by frostheim on Feb 3, 2005 1:14:35 GMT 2
As a musician myself, I consider it being absolutely normal that communication between bands and listeners exist. Band members are human beings as well, so what's the point in seeing them as entities of a higher level of some sort? I appreciate it very much to be able to have contacts and be even common friends with them who make music more or less in the same spirit as I do, in spite of how famous they ever were, compared to i.e. me or whoever. I have actually never seen myself as "a fan" of anything, although I like certain bands, music styles and musical traditions. Especially during a couple of last years I've been perpetually more interested in making my own music than eagerly listening to other peoples doings.
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Post by Sethlad on Feb 3, 2005 12:56:38 GMT 2
Band members are human beings as well, so what's the point in seeing them as entities of a higher level of some sort? What he said. Anyway, my story in folk metal: Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes (a looooong time ago) | | Storm, Isengard, Mithotyn, Kampfar, Månegarm, Bathory, Primordial (7 or 8 years ago) | | Finntroll, Moonsorrow, Ensiferum, Thyrfing and Korpiklaani (a few years ago... Korpiklaani... a year or so..)
That's it, I don't feel like writing much.
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