[Folk Trad./Celtic] Valravn

Valravn - meaning "raven of the slain" in English - is a Danish band playing Scandinavian folk with electronic influences. The band has toured through The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Faeroe Island sand Iceland so far and played on several festival.
Their debut album, "Valravn", was nominated to three Danish music awards.
While their focus lies on the present, their inspiration are the Nordic roots, the nature and the traditional music culture.

Valravn on...
valravn.net
myspace.com
youtube.com

Members:
Anna Katrin Egilstrøð -- vocals, percussion, santur, sansula
Martin Seeberg -- viola, flutes, jew's harp
Søren Hammerlund -- mandola, hurdy-gurdy
Juan Pino -- davul, frame drums, cajon, vocals, electronic and acoustic percussion
Christopher Juul -- samples and electronics

Discography:
[*] Krunk, EP, 2005
[*] Krunk Krunk, double EP, 2007
[*] Valravn, full-length, 2007

"Krummi", taken from "Valravn":

I didn't know how to call the genre and where to put it, so I just wrote E-Folk then and put it into the folk genres. Anyway, this is some really amazing stuff and you should definitely try them!

Quote:

Valravn - Aymon Folk Festival (From "Liberation" newspaper)

La révélation venue du Danemark, Valravn mélangeant musique celtique traditionnel danois et électro enchanté. Ces vikings d’un nouveau genre s’inspirent de la forêt et du corbeau et s’appuient sur la voix planante de leur chanteuse Anna Katrin qui n’est pas sans rappeler celle de Bjork.

Ill translate : "Revelation from Danmark, Valravn mix celtic music, trad. danish & electro. Those vikings from a new genre inspired by the forest and the raven & rely on their singer's voice which the one from Bjork.

edit : a blog from them : http://blog.valravn.net/#home Viking

_________________
Some philosophy lessons are needed for anyone :

Artist is the one that creates art to be seen/heard for free and people gives whatever money if they want to or not.
Craftsman is the one that creates art to be sold.

Their new album, Koder På Snor, was just released:

The album name meaning "Codes on a leash" I believe.

I love how snor means something totally differnet in Swedish.. "codes on snot" would be a strange album name Razz

Codes on Strings says the web.

leash, strrings....not "rope"?

_________________
Some philosophy lessons are needed for anyone :

Artist is the one that creates art to be seen/heard for free and people gives whatever money if they want to or not.
Craftsman is the one that creates art to be sold.

They do call it Codes On Strings themselves, it's written on their homepage ;)

the album is pretty good, btw. I liked Valravn better, but it's still a pretty good one!