MessageToEagle.com – Have you ever wanted to listen to ancient Scandinavian music? If so, now is your chance.
A group of talented musicians from Sweden have recreated ancient Viking Age music and their album is already getting high praise.
As part of the European Music Archeology project (EMAP) Paul Baxter of Delphian Records and Rupert Till of the University of Huddersfield, UK are making five CDs featuring reconstructions of musical instruments that are between 600 and 40000 years old.
Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia is a new album made by Sweden’s Ensemble Mare Balticum. The goal has been to combine voices with recreations of the ancient instruments played in the Norse lands.
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The instrumental group, led by specialist performers Åke Egevad on flute, lyre, horn and lur, plus Jens Egevad on lyre, lur and frame drum wanted to convey the instruments Vikings played and the voices they sang with, opening with an eerily plain little tune on medieval bone recorder and progressing through staunch ritual numbers for lyres and frame drums to lush polyphonic hymns in praise of early Scandinavian Christian saints.
The best-selling BBC Music Magazine has called Ice and Longboats “a delight from start to finish”, and gave it five stars.
Recreation of ancient music is very popular and gives many a unique opportunity to travel back in time and experience sounds from the past.
Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia can be bought from Amazon
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