Name: Folkesange
Brand: Myrkur

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RR50161

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Blue

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-20

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Sales:8.875

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781676501618

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RR74262

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Artist

Myrkur

Genre US

Metal

Label US

RELAPSE

Myrkur is a Danish one-woman project, born in 1985. She is a singer, songwriter, piano and guitar player who has created her own personal style blending black metal and old Nordic folk music. The word Myrkur translates to "darkness" in Icelandic and "mørke" in Danish.

Myrkur's musical talent runs in the family as she is the daughter of Danish producer [a577755] and lyric writer [a874293]. Her unique sound combines haunting melodies with powerful vocals, captivating listeners with its atmospheric beauty.

With her distinctive blend of genres and poetic lyrics, Myrkur has carved out a niche for herself in the music industry. Her music transports listeners to another world, where darkness meets ethereal beauty. Explore Myrkur's discography today and experience the enchanting soundscape she has crafted.

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Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive.

With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect.

After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe.

Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past.

But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level.

It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall.

An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent

Tracklist 1. Ella 2. Fager som en Ros 3. Leaves of Yggdrasil 4. Ramund 5. Tor i Helheim 6. Svea 7. Harpens Kraft 8. Gammelkäring 9. House Carpenter 10. Reiar 11. Gudernes Vilje 12. Vinter

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