EMIAN PaganFolk - Khymeia

Khymeia is the ancient word to describe the chemical, the same from which it originates "alchemy." The album follows "AcquaTerra", their first official work, and is infused with melodies from different parts of the world, who meet each other, giving rise to that sacred union longed: Irpinia, Ireland, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France , Britain, Egypt, Finland, Campania, Norway, Denmark, Sweden. From South to North, from the hot lands of the Mediterranean to the cold lands of the north, by the musical accents of the Latin languages in the most marked and determined the Saxons.

It is Folk, made with tools of all kinds: harp, bouzouki, percussion, violin, flutes. Seventeen songs, half new and half traditional, in one world, with echoes of legends, dances, songs of mysterious and pagan places that kids will bring on many stages in Italy and Europe.

The album will be available on all digital stores from July 22 and physically distributed by Family Affair as early as 15th of the month.

EMIAN PaganFolk - Khymeia

Tracklist:

1.Tribus Hirpeis

2.Hyria

3.La Giga del Lupo

4.Rebys

5.La Cama Nupcial

6.El Viaje de Maria

7.Níl Sé'N Lá

8.La Gavotte

9.Karnak A.D.

10.Invocazione

11.Mephite

12.Chêne Blanc

13.Kuulin Äänen

14.Auciello Grifone

15.Le Due Sorelle

16.Owen's Boat

17.Tramontana

https://emianpaganfolk.bandcamp.com/album/khymeia

La Maisnie Hellequin

“La Maisnie Hellequin” in medieval and traditional legends refers to a band of little spirits, led by Hellequin, making terrible noise at night…

The musicians of La Maisnie Hellequin play around this theme, making musical parades, to create a special atmosphere by the strange sounds of hurdy gurdy, bruegelian bagpipe, nyckelharpa and medieval drums, inspirated by the legendary world.

Line-up:

Sabrina Gelin: hurdy-gurdy.

Nicolas Baran: bagpipe.

Geoffroy: bagpipe.

Mathieu Lacrosse: nyckelharpa/drums.

Text in Old French (13th century) about La Maisnie Hellequin:

" Lor langue est plaine de venin

par aus sont perdu heritage

et desfait maint bon mariage

et mal fait por 1 pot de vin,

c'est la Maisnie Hellequin,

ils s'entrepoilent com mastins."

Emian PaganFolk

From Celtic to North-European culture, from medieval ballads to shamanic singing: EMIAN PaganFolk music combines North European and Mediterranean folk languages, enrapturing the listener with an enchanting song, taking him to snowy peaks, enchanted woods, along Scandinavian fjords. Who listen to their music discovers his deepest ego, archaic feelings lost long time before, bringing back to the ancestral harmony with the universe and the entire Human race.

EMIAN PaganFolk formed in 21th December 2011 (Yule, the winter solstice). Their folk express an adhesion to ancestral lifestyle, far from contemporary bustle and close to ancient and natural values.

The band has gained in few years a myriad of live concerts and two important Italian awards: in 2013 as "best accredited artists" in Ferrara Buskers Festival; in 2015 as "best performance" in the “European Celtic Contest” by Montelago Celtic Festival.

In April 2014 they released their first full-length entitled "AcquaTerra" and filmed two official videoclips: "Mother's Breath" and "The Last King's March" available on YouTube. In Summer 2015 they played in the important Italian festival Festa dell'Unicorno, as well as Montelago Celtic Festival, and also played in the Belgian festival Celtic Night Geluwe during their first European tour.

In the same season, the two founding members, Aianna and Emain, wrote a soundtrack for the movie "Francesco esempio di vita". In autumn 2015 the band signs for the independent label "I Make Records" and starts to record the second album which will be presented in Spring 2016.

Line-up

⊙ Emain "Druma" Cozza ⊙ (fondatore)

◑ Anna "Egan" Cefalo ◐ (fondatrice) 

♫ Danilo "Rohan" Lupi ♫

☠ Máirtín "Killian" D'Amico ☠



Emian PaganFolk - Discography

Khymeia (2016)

AcquaTerra (2014)