French Nordic People collective SKÁLD have shared a brand new visualizer video for his or her track Då Månen Sken (“When The Moon Shone”) which you’ll watch beneath.
The track is the second single to be taken from the band’s upcoming album Huldufólk, which shall be launched by way of Decca Information France/US on January 20. The brand new album tackles native historical past and pagan anecdotes throughout Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland, preserving their people traditions of yesteryears alive. Suppose Heilung, however particularly Viking.
“Då Månen Sken is a ballad that tells the story of a skogsrå, a forest nymph, who bewitched the younger Björn,” say SKÁLD. “Björn was a tall, good-looking boy on his option to a celebration one fall night. On his approach, he met this nymph who bewitched him. He’ll find yourself alone and melancholic, obsessed by the sound of the forest.”
Shaped by producer/composer Christophe Voisin-Boisvinet in 2018, SKÁLD is a collective of over a dozen musicians who’ve restored the folklore and myths from poets, Vikings and shamans of historic occasions and distant lands. The band take their identify from historic Nordic poets (aka skalds) and sing in Outdated Norse and different Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese) together with utilizing instrumentation relationship again to the 14th century such because the nyckelharpa, Lyre, hurdy-gurdy, Moraharpa and Talharpa.
The paintings for Huldufólk which might be seen beneath, is a tribute to Swedish painter and illustrator John Baur’s illustration Princess Tuvstarr Gazing Down Into The Darkish Waters Of The Forest Tarn.
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