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02:13 pm May 10th, 2008




			Liminal Horizons - SO MUCH WIN. don't worry, I'm from the internets

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	SO MUCH WIN.
	First off: Hurdy Gurdy - Prototyp SO. FREAKING. BADASS. Oh my god. The other day, msandromeda posted a clip of someone playing a hurdy gurdy, and well, I have a thing for medieval music, see? (Not that I know much about it, mind.) And I really dig hurdy gurdy music, especially. So it suddenly occurs to me, hey, wonder if I'd find anything good just plugging "hurdy gurdy" into the pirate bay? And that album was one of the first to come up. It's commonly said that the hurdy gurdy was the medieval synthesizer, and I guess these guys wanted to prove it. These two pro-hurdy gurdy players, Stefan Brisland-Ferner and Hållbus Totte Mattson, have created some kind of crazy medieval/techno/industrial fusion, entirely using sounds generated from the hurdy gurdies. The result is eerie, layered and complex, and infinitely catchy. Many of the tracks are based on traditional Swedish folk songs, but fuck me if I could even guess which ones (although I'm assuming the ones titled in English are not, natch). One thing that strikes me about this music is that it's very black and white and grey, very chilly, with only a few flashes of color here and there. Most music has a particular color scheme for me (and hurdy gurdy music is usually shades of green,) and I wouldn't even expect to like something so monochromatic, but... well, suffice it to say this album is awesome. So awesome my head exploded. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. --- Second off: Can anyone point me toward some good medieval flute music? I needs it, the precious, for inspiration for the pied piper story. I am having no luck finding it on my own. The type of flute does not matter. It also does not necessarily need to be European flute music, as long as it is early flute music. Tags: music

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	From: umegaki	Date: May 10th, 2008 07:35 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I adore Attmar and Frost Mats. :D

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 10th, 2008 11:53 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Frost Mats is one of my faves too - I also really love Bleking!

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	From: umegaki	Date: May 11th, 2008 12:59 am (UTC)		(Link)

There's just something about Frost Mats, it's really not my style of music but wow - maybe it's the way it starts out sounding like the call of a battle horn across a snowy field, and then moves into the thumping beats of a charge and battle across said field.

At least, that's the image it evokes for me.

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 11th, 2008 01:06 am (UTC)		(Link)

Hah - it invokes rather similar images for me, since it seems to bring up images of my viking warrior women/frozen earth story. XD;

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	From: umegaki	Date: May 11th, 2008 07:35 am (UTC)		(Link)

Awesome. XD

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	From: sanada	Date: May 10th, 2008 07:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

...This is fucking awesome. I love that metallic and evil sound!

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 10th, 2008 11:54 pm (UTC)		(Link)

ISN'T IT?! OMG. I've been dying for some new music, I guess I've just found it. :D:D:D

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	From: quaedam	Date: May 10th, 2008 07:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

:( It seems all my Medieval modal music recordings are either string instruments, horns, or voices. Have you tried Googling modal flute music, just to turn up some composers, perhaps?

OTOH, I do have some of his CDs, though I don't know that that's really the sound you're looking for. It's not very strongly rhythmic, for the most part.

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 10th, 2008 11:53 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hmm, no, I haven't tried that - I'll give it a go, thanks! :D I'll check out that Nakai guy too, I just checked and they've got one or two things on pb of his.

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	From: kulpunya	Date: May 10th, 2008 11:13 pm (UTC)		(Link)

It tells me I can't listen without the new RealPlayer, which apparently I can only get free for 14 days, then I have to pay for it :-(

Try searching for medieval music with recorders and shawms. Those were common wind instruments at the time.

"Ave Regina Celorum" on this page:
http://bostoncamerata.org/cd/titles/noelnoel.htm

Medieval recorder music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lwMIBuPx4k
Ditto as played in Taiwan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqe9B4FBMKw&feature=related

This one has a lot of flute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYLBW2n5Sk&feature=related
(And for hurdy gurdy, check out this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7i4sE_pt0&feature=related
I want to take that old guy home and keep him.)

This guy is demonstrating a medieval/renaissance recorder and oboe thingy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdgjItBhR0&feature=related

Feinster paganfolk aus Deutschland... With a lovely recorder bit. And undertones of lesbian love story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WypmGwzisE&feature=related

Ye merrie olde German folke metalle mit pipey sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsB0JmV7i4&feature=related

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 10th, 2008 11:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Realplayer, whut?! I'm not sure why it would tell you that you need that... Realplayer is an evil, insidious program that I set fire to every time it sneaks onto my computer (which it does on a periodic basis, somehow.) I use winamp.

And ooooh, thanks for all the links! :D♥

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	From: kulpunya	Date: May 11th, 2008 04:08 am (UTC)		(Link)

I know what I did. I clicked on the "listen to samples" link instead of scrolling down. Now I can hear. That's great! I like the Middle Easterny sound of some of it.

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	From: lordarchan	Date: May 12th, 2008 12:14 am (UTC)		(Link)

that sounds pretty awesome. Might have to check it out.

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 12th, 2008 05:42 am (UTC)		(Link)

YOU SHOULD

IT KICKS ASS

:D

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	From: susieoh	Date: May 12th, 2008 04:26 am (UTC)		(Link)

YOU ARE SO CUTE. today i'd whined about nobody giving gangsta props to the sagbutt and hurdygurdy anymore...but clearly, i was wrong. XD

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CG96J57B <-it has some flute solos among medieval tunes

i can't find any flute music from medieval era even though i've seen horizontal flutes in paintings... but they look the same as asian ones, so i'd imagine they sound the same as well-

chinese-http://youtube.com/watch?v=L_soae20uUk
korean-http://youtube.com/watch?v=fsp01yJduCM

i probably should have drawn your pedojesus with more typical short pipe, because he can't really prance and frolic amongst the peasants whilst playing the long flute.

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	From: woodburner	Date: May 12th, 2008 04:56 am (UTC)		(Link)

I LOVE HURDY GURDIES OMG. I have a tendency to love strings in general, especially "exotic" and/or antiquated string instruments, for some reason.

and EEE THANK YOU dude this has some really cool songs on it. (I am really digging this "Come, sleep, who takes the children".)

Dude, he is a pedojesus, I think his pipe is probably stretchy.

...

maybe that was a bad choice of words.

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