Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia Ensemble Mare Balticum

• Anonymous:
• 1Anonymous: Drømde mik en drøm I01:14
• 2Signals to the Aesir Gods05:16
• 3In the Village: I. Musical Pastimes01:31
• 4In the Village: II. Evening02:25
• 5Mith hierthæ brendher02:39
• 6Sequentia: Lux illuxit05:53
• 7Anonymous: Cantio: Scribere proposui02:10
• 8Anonymous: Drømde mik en drøm II00:47
• 9Anonymous: Ramus virens olivarum06:13
• 10Drømde mik en drøm III01:26
• 11Drømde mik en drøm IV01:21
• 12Anonymous: Drømde mik en drøm V01:03
• 13Anonymous: Nobis est natus hodie – In natali Domini01:51
• 14Estampie ‘Ferro transecuit’03:11
• 15Estampie ‘Pax patrie’03:12
• 16Rondellus: Ad cantus laetitiae01:48
• 17Mith hierthæ brendher II01:48
• 18Melody from Hultebro02:18
• 19Anonymous: The Warrior with his Lyre01:26
• 20Anonymous: Gethornslåt01:09
• 21Anonymous: Grímur á Miðalnesi01:13
• 22Jesus Christus nostra salus06:00
• 23Nobilis humilis04:53
• 24Gaudet mater ecclesia03:36
• 25Antiphona: Hostia grata Deo01:16
• 26Antiphona: Ferro transecuit01:12
• 27Anonymous: Improvisation on ‘Gaudet mater ecclesia’01:09
• 28Sancta Anna, moder Christ01:48
• 29Sequentia: Diem festum veneremur06:25
• Total Runtime01:16:13

Info zu Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia

Scandinavia’s archaeologically known prehistory encompasses around twelve thousand years, culminating in the Viking period (c.800–1050AD). The Middle Ages then followed, around six hundred years later than in continental Europe – a late development due to the long period in which ice still covered Europe’s northern parts. Volume 2 in Delphian Records’ groundbreaking collaboration with the European Music Archaeology Project constructs a soundscape of these two periods, featuring both music improvised on Viking instruments, and notated songs and instrumental items from the early centuries of Christianity in Scandinavia.

EMAP brings together partners from seven European countries to research, explore and bring to life the music of ancient cultures, from 40,000 BC to the present day. Through a series of international exhibitions, visitors will also have the chance to see and touch these intriguing instruments, allowing us to understand more fully the crucial role played by music in ancient societies.

"This meticulously researched album from Sweden’s Ensemble Mare Balticum imagines the instruments Vikings played and the voices they sang with...The instrumentals are pretty dry, but the singing of Ute Goedecke and Aino Lund Lavoipierre is gorgeous: two pure and fulsome voices, beautifully matched." (The Guardian)

"This is your opportunity to hear a possibility of what these instruments sounded like... to be transported to a different world. It's ear-opening - there are revelations here. It's a while since anyone has tackled this ancient music with such determination and imagination over a series." (Record Review)

Aino Lund Lavoipierre, vocals
Ute Goedecke, recorder, vocals
Åke Egevad, lur, Birka lyre
Stefan Wikström, lur
Jens Egevad, lur, Cologne lyre
Cajsa Lund, frame drum
Per Mattsson, symphonia, bells

Åke Egevad
is a Swedish musician and instrument-builder. He is engaged by Musik i Syd, EMAP’s co-organiser in Sweden, to make around 200 replicas and type models of archaeological finds of sound instruments in Scandinavia. They will be used as hands-on instruments in the EMAP exhibition. He will also have workshops at the various EMAP exhibition venues. Åke Egevad, who lives near Kristianstad in Skåne, South Sweden, has collaborated with the Swedish music archaeologist Cajsa S. Lund for many years, both as musician and as reconstructor of archaeological finds of musical instruments and other sound tools, especially those made of bone, horn, wood, and leather. He is a pioneer in early Swedish bagpipes.

Ensemble Mare Balticum (EMB)
is based in Kristianstad in Skåne (South Sweden) and is administrated by the regional music institution Musik i Syd, which is EMAP’s co-organiser in Sweden. The core of Ensemble Mare Balticum consists of six professional musicians that encompasses various branches of early music, from the late Iron Age up to the 1700th century and primarily from the countries around the Baltic Sea. The EMB musicians are Ute Goedecke, vocal, flute instruments, baroque violin, harp Per Mattsson, rebec, fiddle, baroque violin, hurdy gurdy and other medieval stringed instruments Tommy Johansson, lute instruments, percussion instruments Dario Losciale, viola da gamba, violone Stefan Wikström, trumpet instruments, percussion instruments Fredrik Persson, reed instruments. Producer of EMB is Jesper Hamilton

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