Kreiviskai

Neofolk- / Ethno-Ambient- / Darkfolk-act from Tver. The Kreiviskai music is based on Tver song folklore, Krivitch mythology, the archetypes of the people of swamps and forests, the noise of the age-old Okovo forest, the tranquility of unhurried Tver rivers. The act has found its present form on the crooked evenings of the 2013 Winter Solstice. Then a record Zemmis Supnāi (Pruss. "Dreams of the Earth") was recorded in an improvised studio on the outskirts of the historic Tver suburb. A few years earlier, the participants of the act were selected to complete the concept of “Dreams of the Earth”, delving into local mythology, collecting a variety of ancient instruments, studying the folklore techniques of ancient Tolshchina. All current members of Kreiviskai are from the Balti ethnofuturistic project Tver.

Creativity Kreiviskai is dedicated to the rich and difficult fate of the territory of the Upper Volga, where history is intertwined with mythology, Russian with Lithuanian, and the truth - with a curve ...

"Nonregnum" is the second full-length album made by Kreiviskai, the band from Tver, playing at the intersection of folk, ritual and ethnographic-ambient genres. After the authentic and incredibly atmospheric debut album "Zemmis Supnai", released in 2014, the musicians took a significant step forward and literally drove everyone crazy with their ritual single "Dāinas – Dwāi wangas”, which was released in the cold autumn of 2016.

Dainas was the first warning of that we should expect something extraordinary from the second album of this band.

Admittedly, Kreiviskai didn’t disappoint anyone. "Nonregnum" is a truly fundamental work with amazing diversity and above all conceptuality, which wasтexpressed both in external design of the release and in itsтsound. Without losing touch with authentic source and traditional instruments, the band generously enriched the original “archeo” with epic as well as the whole web of “audio-futurum”, woven from such genres as martial, neoclassic, post-folk, darkwave and even black-metal.

The members of such bands as COMPASS MAURI, HAGL, ARCANORUM ASTRUM and PRAGNAVIT have also took part in the creation of the album.

Kreiviskai - Discography

Nonregnum (2018)

Zemmis Supnāi (2014, remastered 2018)

Dāinas - Dwāi Wangās (Single) (2016)

Etnostation

Etnostation performs entirely original songs inspired by ethnic music from different corners of the planet, including traditional Celtic but also Polish or even Mongolian folklore, arranged in a modern and energetic way, sometimes even pop. Music is a fusion of styles and sounds of five unique musical personalities, who grew up playing folk, funk, pop, classical or jazz, but combined into a coherent, remarkable and unified entity. The band uses traditional but also less ordinary instruments like the great highland bagpipes, gaita gallega, bombarde, whistle, violin, button accordion, bass lute, drums. Moreover, you will also hear guttural noises. In 2015, the band recorded a demo which is available online and somewhat crazy music video for the song “Celtoświr”. Currently, we’re planning to record our first album.

MEMBERS:

Paweł Szymiczek

Radomir Rakowski

Wojciech Polesiak

Dariusz Goc

Łukasz Kutyński

FeHu PaganFolk

An italian Pagan Folk Band born in the winter of 2015, FeHu mixes pagan/nordic and medieval melodies toghether with more styles.

There was a time when rivers of cement flooded the earth and the lights of the cities prevented the view of the stars

So it was that then five brave guys decided to get together and fight against it

They took a letter of an ancient character and made it their own, without imagining the great power it would give it.

With music that recalled the purity of the ancient, singing songs of great warrior cultures now defunct, fought to sounds of ballads and songs, calling freedom, fighting with vigor against the sick modernity

MEMBERS:

Jordi Tambara

Mattia Casoni

Davide Festa

Sebastiano Gelmetti

FeHu The Pagan-Folk - speire milis (2018)

Tracks:

1.Fehu

2.Sea, whales and vikings

3.Guthanna Na Heireann

4.Speire Milis

5.Yalla Lala

6.Shululaileira

7.Tanssjia Laulu

8.Waves & Drunken Sailor

Dziwoludy

Dziwoludy - a group of people connected by musical passion and ... the Middle Ages. They detached their guitars, amplifiers, and multi-effects, and took hold of simple wooden instruments. They wore ragged souvenirs and now they wander from castles and castles to the camp. They play at feasts and tournaments praising the times of ancient Slavs. And to dance they will choose a lively note. It is not easy to encounter such Dziwoludy - you have to go for them to the Middle Ages.

The idea dawned in the head of a certain Szuwar from Wrocław, when around 2014, he wandered around tournaments and rallies with a group of early medieval performers. Several musicians, brave enough to give up their modern habits, answered his call. And so the metal guitarist switched to the 3 string panduri, his bandmate got the saz, the jazz bassist critically looked at the wooden flute, the rock drummer learned that he was to play the baraban, the classical violinist uncertainly took kemenche bow, and the experienced singer was sent back to the first white singing lessons. Oh, it was not easy. Especially, if you mention that in the selection of repertoires they still had to work tediously through historical sources and the depths of the Internet. The whole undertaking rightly deserves the name "Dziwoludy". Now in their Middle Ages, they found their own sound, which they would like to share.

MEMBERS:

Piotr "Szuwar" Hornowski - instrumenty strunowe, wokal, aranżacje, menagement

Dorota "Mira" Karlińska - wokal, przeszkadzajki

Jacek Gajek - instrumenty basowe

Wojciech Pospolita - instrumenty strunowe

Marcjanna Jelińska - instrumenty smyczkowe

Filip Jarmuszczak - instrumenty dęte

Adam Koniuszewski - instrumenty perkusyjne

Ragojka

We are a group of occasional igri. We have emerged as an offshoot of the LH group of the Veles people, who is engaged in the reconstruction of the old Slavic ceremonies. Since we know from history that part of the ceremonies was always music, we wanted it to sound even on our rituals. Since it is nowhere documented how the music of our ancestors looked, we tried to create it on the basis of Slavic folklore. Gradually, we added folk songs, especially of the Southern and Eastern Slavs.

Ragojka - Discography

Putování po zemích slovanských

Vynášení Morany

Písně Baltoslovanské

Veles rok

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Sadko

Sadko - project is called in honor of the gusla player, the hero to the ancient of Slavic mythology. Sadko is a project by Ruslan Akimov, also a member and founder of black metal band Devilgroth.

Gusli - one of the most ancient musical instruments on the earth is considered that to it more than one and a half thousand years. This tool really great heritage of Old Russian art. Also, it is believed that the Slavic gusli, and Finnish Kantele related instruments.

"Slovo" is a musical interpretation of "Tale of Igor's campaign". It is a unique manuscript of ancient Rus with the great cultural meaning and very important for literature. Each track corresponds to each chapter of the Tale. Album is made mostly using Gusli - ancient Russian musical instrument, which is almost forgotten nowadays. The sound of the album changes and transformes from folk-ambient to music with little parts of pagan metal. It is the only one album of it's kind. 

MEMBERS:

Ruslan Akimov

Sadko - Slovo (The Tale of Igor's Campaign)

Moonloom Band

MOONLOOM - a young folk group from Moscow, combining in its work as the beauty of medieval ballads, and all the power and epic nature of the Scandinavian tunes, and like the phases of the moon illuminates the ancient pagan cultures of different peoples. The repertoire of the group includes songs in different languages: Russian, Old Norse, Romanian, German, Middle High German, Spanish, Old Icelandic, Lower Saxon, Latin, Finnish, Sephardic, Gallic (dead) and some other languages.

MEMBERS:

Arina Bormusova

Anna Dagayeva

Osipova Ekaterina

Volodimir

Catherine Deryabina

https://vk.com/moonloom

vael folk band

Panfolk music band from Madrid (Spain). We mix numerous styles of the world with our own traditional music.

Until being officially founded in October 2016, the project went through several previous stages looking for concepts and objectives on which to work.

It was not until the first months of 2017 that the band closed its current formation of seven musicians and began to compose seriously his first work, taking good care of the project's official announcement.

September 2017 has been the chosen month to show all the work done since the beginning.

MEMBERS:

Macarena Pingarrón - Nyckelharpa, voz, pequeña percusión.

Violeta Moreno - Violín, coros.

Daniel Iturriaga - Whistle, low whistle, gaita gallega, cítara, canto gutural, coros.

Guillermo García - Percusión, davul, bodhran, didgeridoo, coros.

Camilo García - Guitarra clásica, coros.

José M. Vicente - Guitarra española, coros.

Teresa Peciña - Zanfona, flauta travesera, whistle, gaita gallega, peq

ueña percusión, voz, coros.

Vael - Mure - Demo 2017

Kjell Braaten Music

Kjell Braaten started his music career at the age of eight years, in the local school band. He started out composing his own music when he turned ten.

At the age of twenty, he had educated himself to be a conductor and worked as a teacher for the local school bands.

Kjell Braaten started to record and produce his own music when he was twelve.

In 1994 (at the age of nineteen) he entered the Norwegian academy of sound engeneering (Norsk lydskole – now NISS).

Since then, he has contributed as a musician on about forty and produced about thirty albums.

Current projects

Kjell Braaten - Acoustic music performed on ethnic instruments

Vikingmusikk - Nordic historical music and lectures

Skaldatal - Performances of myths and sagas

Sonono - Arabic-Nordic world music

Ran - Historically inspired pop music

Wardruna - Stand in musician

Kjell Braaten - Discography

Kyst - Single (2018)

Moonsong (2017)

Acoustic Oscillator (2016)

Treefolk

Treefolk, is more than a folk music group, it is a company dedicated to Musical Animation specialized in thematic markets, adapting its costumes and music with its own label to the event you need.

Treefolk is formed by 3 people with a long career and musical training, which allows them to adapt to any topic.

Having two very distinguished and defined musical blocks, on the one hand the medieval folk format and on the other an Arabic format, both with instrumentation, music and totally different costumes. His repertoire is original and they are also

registered in the SGAE.

MEMBERS:

Gaita: Chico

Percusión

Bombo: Ale

Tambor: Jose

Treefolk . Discography

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Gracias

The Peglegs

A drunken haze that took its form in the early 2017 following an ep named Gallows Play in the may of the same year. The Peglegs have since put out singles, doing gigs and changed form all the time evolving and finding their own way of doing things. Mixing rock, punk, metal and folkmusic in its different forms in addition with the traditional instruments that go with it the band makes sure that theres no boring moment. Currently the band consists of four

MEMBERS:

Aapo: vox, whistles, violin and Bouzouki.

Riku: drums, perc and vox.

Timo: guitar

Eero: bass.

The Peglegs - Discography

Gallows Play (2017)

Latest releases can be found on bands youtube page as part of exclusive single hulabalooza. Dont also forget to check the first album on spotify!

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6m2sjmaWj19YUrhUBMPHnW

The Midnight

Midnight were formed in 2003, inspired by the magical sound of Blackmore's Night. The choice to be called "Midnight" is not accidental: "midnight" is a metaphor not only of a past time, but also a "mysterious elsewhere" the magic hour of the night for excellence, where fairies and elves dance in the woods, the wizards prepare their spells and the witches gather under a large walnut tree. "Minstrels" thus, offering melodies inspired by celtic, medieval and renaissance sweet ballads but also lively rhythms drawn from popular culture and folk music. All made more attractive from setting and costumes inspired by fantasy. The show intends to make reliving, through musical notes, scenery and costumes, the charm and enchantment of the "fantasy literature" a kind of narration between epic and fantastic, magical and mysterious, where narrated events are set in a time and a world imaginary in the "middle land" the linking ring between a permanent medieval, an improbable future and an alternative universe populated by magical creatures.

"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. 'tis almost fairy time."

(from "A Midsummer Night's Dream” by William Shakespeare).

MEMBERS:

Federico Vannucchi - chitarre acustiche, Irish bouzouki, ghironda, Irish mandola /

Giulia Del Bravo - voce /

Massimo Paggi - basso acustico /

Graziano Ridolfo - batteria, percussioni /

Luca Floridi - tastiere /

Chiara Becherini - backing vocals /

(plus special guest)

Savino Pantone - violin/viola /

Gaspare Bartelloni - flutes/bombards /

The Midnight - Discography

THE MIDNIGHT (2013)

NIGHT TRIBUTE Live In Florence - Saschall Theater (2008)

Ritual Duir

In January 2018, it was born "Ritual Duir"

Ritual Duir is a project by the singer Rose Avalon, former singer of the Pagan folk band "Cuelebre"

“Ritual Duir” is created in honor of the trees, the forest and its fauna. They pay rituals, druidic knowledge, the connection with the elementals of the forest, guardians of nature, sap and roots. Let’s walk together and barefoot to feed ourselves with the energy of the big and magic oak.

MEMBERS:

Rose Avalon 

A.C. Vent Mediterrani

Vent Mediterrani is a Valencian musical group of new generation formed by Leo, Maite, Raquel and Nelo

Each of them has studied music and formed part of different musical and cultural groups. Currently, they have come together to study and interpret the different categories and compositions that exist in Spain of medieval music, popular folklore and pagan and religious festivals.

To his credit they have performances in Medieval Markets, Gegants i cabuts, correfocs, Moors and Christians, traditional festivities of the Valencian Community (fallas, folk dances), masses, concerts ... taking their music not only throughout the area of the Valencian Community, but also by part of the national territory.

MEMBERS:

Leopoldo Huercio: Dolçaina , Sac de Gemecs ,Gaita Zanfona, Gralla 

Maite Molina :Dolçaina i Tarota

Raquel Garcia Martinez: Gaita gallega, Gaita Asturiana , Bodram ,Flauta Travesera.

Nelo Mascaros : Bouzouki irlandes , Gaita Gallega , percusion varia.

Heather Wasteland

HEATHER WASTELAND (Χερσόνησος, 3-bass Heretical Folk Art created by Cimmerian metalheads in neo-medieval metal way) was founded in the spring of 2001.

A distinctive feature of the group was the presence of two bass players (Sergey Pavlov and Alexander Vetrogon) and a drummer (Anatoliy Polovnikov) in the band’s line-up, and an intended refuse to use guitars.

HEATHER WASTELAND existed until the spring of 2002, having managed to play only two concerts. Their debut 12-minute performance created a furor owing to the music itself and the unrestrained energy at the stage that moved the bored crowd. The group became a discovery of the festival, and a concert photo of the raging front man was published in a very conservative newspaper. So, the group remained memorable long after the show for a long time.

In October of 2014, the band was reunited with the original line-up, but also recruited the third bass player (Andrey Anikushin).

HEATHER WASTELAND’s music is marked by the uncommon approach to folk metal, and interest in obscure or “forbidden” topics of pre-christian and medieval periods of European history, often in the esoteric context.

In 2015 HEATHER WASTELAND recorded 4 tracks for their debut EP “Under The Red Wolfish Moon” to be self-released in digipak CD format in December, 2016.

Mix by Andrey Ignatenkov, a sound engineer with high level of the concert experience owing to work with Joe Lynn Turner, Goran Bregović, Arkona, Bonfire, De-Phazz and many more at the concerts in the Crimea. Mastering by Iurii Kuz’kin, who is well-known to the fans of Slavonic pagan metal owing to his work with Chur, Oprich, and “Triunity” project.

Cover art by Njard, who is well-known for his cooperation with Ghost (Sweden), Grand Belial's Key (USA), Horna (Finland), Absurd (Germany), Sacrificia Mortuorum (France) and many more.

All EP tracks are already included in several CD- and digital compilations. The first official video “Tre Sverd” turned in a good score of views at Youtube and several social medias, and exceeded 10 thousand views in total over three months. The video is also included in a DVD-compilation of Terroraiser Magazine (Ukraine).

In the spring of 2016 Heather Wasteland recorded a neo-medieval cover version of the song “Personal Energy” for the official international tribute CD of Pestilence (the Netherlands, jazz/death metal). A chorus of growling trolls was recorded by Ind (Grenouer, Tartharia).

MEMBERS:

Anatoliy Polovnikov - drums,

Alexandr Vetrogon - 6-string bass,

Andrey Anikushin - 5-string bass,

AR - 4-string bass

Heather Wasteland - Discography

Under The Red Wolfish Moon (2016)

Under The Red Wolfish Moon (single) (2016)

Personal Energy (Pestilence cover) (2016)

Irregang

Irregang, in places also the Spielleut Irregang, is a native of Thuringia band from the field of medieval music.

The beginnings of the current four-member band date back to 1999, when band members Felix and Lehnchen met for a theatrical performance. Together with the later band member Dr. Met. Falcinellus they positioned themselves in the genre of medieval rock. In their self-perception, the ensemble members see themselves in the development phase of an independent musical style, which, although resorting to medieval melody and text fragments, but with the arrangement and elements of folk and rock closer to today's listening habits.

The debut album "In the intoxication of the pipes" appeared in the year 2005. In July 2010 followed her second album called "Golias", which was chosen in September of the same year to the CD of the month of the medieval music Internet portal minnesang.com. In October 2010, the music magazine Sonic Seducer reported on the band and also published a review of the new CD. Furthermore, Irregang are represented both on the medieval-facetted sampler of Zillo 2008 [3] and 2010 and also on the "Cold Hands Seduction" Vol.111 is with "Clauso Chronos" one of their songs.

Irregang also perform live on medieval markets and relevant music festivals both in Germany - such as the Falkensteiner Minneturnier at Burg Falkenstein - and in Denmark or France. In the movie "The Beloved Sisters" (2014), the musicians portrayed contemporary musicians in a dance scene under a lime tree and composed the piece "Studentdreider" for them. With the release of the third album "Faulenzia" in August 2017, Maledict left the band, which has since appeared as a trio. The play "Spielmann" was released in 2018 on the sampler Verbünder V, which was also reported in the magazine Karfunkel in the May 2018 issue.

MEMBERS:

Felix der Pfeyffer

Dr. Met Falcinellus

Maledict von Wegen

Christoph der Vielsaitige

Irregang - Discography

CD Lied (2018)

Faulenzia (2017)

  

Golias (2010)

Im Rausch der Pfeyffen (2005)