What to you Brew to?

[teutonic terror]

Bob, a couple I found several months back that still tears my nerves up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJAmlnBxoA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZn7k5r ... 3CC8011B95

Thanks for the links. The chick from Xandria has a spectacular voice!

It's the contrast between the voice and the "thunder" as Jorn would put it, that I enjoy so much!

[mashani]

I bottled to this last night...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI8j_JMV8sI

[mashani]

FWIW, this is the original symphonic / gothic metal band with female opera type singers mixing with grunty male dudes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrrSAzDumK0

That's a full 2 hour concert, so skip around, you may find something you like a lot. Or not. It's a bit harder then the stuff that's been posted.

[teutonic terror]

Thanks Mashani!

I downloaded the show so I can take my time listening to it. All four of them actually have great voices, I've just never gotten the growling part alot of these band do!
I can do without it.
Kinda reminds of Diabulus In Musica. That chick's got it going on too!

[frogmeat69]

I bottled to this last night...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI8j_JMV8sI

Never heard of them, but freaking wow, was that fantastic!

[FrozenInTime]

Kinda cool, not my kind o music, but she has a nice voice.

[frogmeat69]

This is my favorite band from this style, I loved the first album "Enter", and the E.P. "The Dance". "Mother Earth" was good, too, minus the growls. After that, no more rough vocals, and less of an edge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIyYCoyfTc Enjoy!!

[haerbob3]

a little of the guttural singing I can deal with. If the singing sounds like I am sittin' on the pot after a 3 day binge no-thanks. I love metal guitar but please be able to sing. 'sides I would much rather be watching a nice babe in fishnets, high heels, a push-up corset with no top and a rice rack struttin' about than a dud any day

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

So no Doro Pesch back in Warlock?

[teutonic terror]

Fan-stikin-tastic Mashani! Never seen anybody play lead flute and bagpipes! Very talented band!
Thanks!!

[mashani]

Fan-stikin-tastic Mashani! Never seen anybody play lead flute and bagpipes! Very talented band!
Thanks!!

If you liked Faun, you may like some other bands of similar nature.

A bit of warning, these bands are sometimes if not often composed of neopagans of various types, celtic, germanic, italian, greek, and more. They tend to be European, and may sing in many different languages, vs. just English, although there may be some lyrics in English. If you would find this is offensive then don't go delving deeply into their music. Nobody in Europe cares (well mostly nobody), some of these bands have played in churches and similar venues. They all tend to do reconstructionist medieval music, some of which *is* very much Christian music, but also pre-medieval music, updated traditional/folk music from their cultures, and also from other cultures, and use historic instruments and they are not necessarily "anti-Christian" as such. In fact most of them will play a version of a song called Palästinalied, which is probably the most famous song that remains from the time of the Crusades. It's like a foundation song.

This reconstructionist tendency is why you see various types of bag pipes, drums, hurdy gurdy, cornetto, shawm, organistrum, trumscheit, various whistles, and lots of other things you never see a modern band utilize. And then some of them throw in bizzare things that don't really belong in medieval music like didgeridoo, but make it work to great effect. But really how often can you hear hurdy gurdy as the lead instrument these days? I think it's awesome.

So like for example if you go about 5:15 into this video, you will see Palästinalied, performed by a band Corvus Corax. This band actually was involved in a research projects at some localish universities because they build many of their own instruments. So they are not just reconstructionist in compositions, but also in the truest sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30akH30l-FA

Here are a couple more from them, where you can see some of the bizarre instruments and/or 5 bagpipes played at the same time LOL. And a full orchestra, opera singer, choir, etc. in the second one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWINzsC42VI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5L_pWVcmU

Now the band most like Faun is called Omnia. Faun are germanic, Omnia are celtic, but they tend to tour together and will play together sometimes too for some sets. Here are some Omina songs. They play various pipes, harp, didgeridoo, hurdy gurdy, various strings. The lady (Jenny) in this band is talented in many instruments as well. The second song is very much not European, it's a song from Afghanistan but isn't really afghan either, it's really an Indian/Punjabi song in nature. The third one is very much a celtic neopagan song of their own manufacture about the Morrigan, a pre-Christian celtic triple aspect goddess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pE-OwC1aes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwjSL35vWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtOgFHdwZ3M

This is Omnia and Faun (and another band Gor) playing together at a festival. As this is a jam, you will actually hear bits of Palästinalied mixed in with the other stuff. Because like I said, they all like that song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ky5netm48

This is a lousy video of some Gor with Omnia members mixed in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-EIYLsEazg

I could point you at lots of other bands like these if you wish, just PM me.

[haerbob3]

Nice Nice!!!

[FrozenInTime]

I had never heard of Omnia, dayum, I love their music!

[mashani]

I had never heard of Omnia, dayum, I love their music!

Omnia and Faun are great, in that they incorporate rhythms and musical styles from all over the place and make it work. Unfortunately it is difficult to see them unless you travel to Europe and catch a music festival. Omnia was only here in the states one time so far, and that was this summer.

EDIT: some of you might like this too. This lady is Eivør Palsdottir, she is from the Faroe Islands. She sings in Faroese, which is an Icelandic / Germanic language branch specific to the islands. As in not many people speak it. The style of singing she is using in both these songs is called "Joik" which is the singing style of the Sami people, especially shamans, from northern Sweden, Norway, and parts of Russia. Think of them as the native people of that region. Except that they mingled and traded with the pre-Christian Germanic people, and they shared ideas and traditions. This makes them very interesting to those who study such things. She also throat sings, which is a similar method to Tibetan Buddhist (IE Gyuto monks that Mickey Heart of the Grateful Dead introduce to the US) and also practiced in Mongolia. This stuff is all about the voice, think of the voice as THE instrument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8WD1gx8mg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X2KhXfe-uI

[FrozenInTime]

That is sooooo cool!! I can usually catch a few words, but not a single one she sings. Awesome, I esp. like the way they show, ie not like most bands that think the whole show is about T&A all over to make the show. Me likey very much!