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Idisemorgen

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Recorded on the Spring Equinox in 2014 at The Common Café in Toronto. This is an ode to the Disir, female ancestral spirits who we honour around the time of Yule. The night before Yule is sometimes called Mother's Night, so this is piece is morning of the feminine divine. When winter turns to spring we honour the mother's who helped us through the winter, and the spirits who will give a prosperous spring and summer.

It is important to note that there are very little records of heathen belief and this music and philosophy is one interpretation after reading much literature. The music and the spirituality it eschews is our construction using the images and feelings of gleaned from ancient myths and stories.

The text is a modern German translation of the Merseburg incantations.

lyrics

Einst saßen Idise, setzten sich hierher und dorthin.
Einige hefteten Fesseln, einige reizten die Heere auf.
Einige klaubten herum an den Volkesfesseln
Entspringe den Haftbanden, entkomme den Feinden.

(Once sat the Disir, They sat here, then there.
Some fastened bonds, Some impeded an army,
Some unraveled fetters: Escape the bonds, flee the enemy!)

credits

released March 20, 2015
Lucas Gadke - Electric bass, double bass and vocals
Laura Bates - Violin

Recorded by Bryan W Bray
Mastered by Frank Gryner

Image by Tina Faucher of Faucher Illustration

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Völur Toronto, Ontario

Drawing from folk melodies, heathen spirituality and trance-inducing doom, Völur weave a hypnotic web of chthonic noise on the yawning gap of silence. A deep sound that moves through melodies, riffs and timbres slowly as a seeress chants rites for souls long past. Would you know more?

Lucas Gadke - Bass and voice
Laura C. Bates - Violin and voice
Justin Ruppel - Drums and percussion
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