Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia Ensemble Mare Balticum

• Anonymous:
• 1 Anonymous: Drømde mik en drøm I 01:14
• 2 Signals to the Aesir Gods 05:16
• 3 In the Village: I. Musical Pastimes 01:31
• 4 In the Village: II. Evening 02:25
• 5 Mith hierthæ brendher 02:39
• 6 Sequentia: Lux illuxit 05:53
• 7 Anonymous: Cantio: Scribere proposui 02:10
• 8 Anonymous: Drømde mik en drøm II 00:47
• 9 Anonymous: Ramus virens olivarum 06:13
• 10 Drømde mik en drøm III 01:26
• 11 Drømde mik en drøm IV 01:21
• 12 Anonymous: Drømde mik en drøm V 01:03
• 13 Anonymous: Nobis est natus hodie – In natali Domini 01:51
• 14 Estampie ‘Ferro transecuit’ 03:11
• 15 Estampie ‘Pax patrie’ 03:12
• 16 Rondellus: Ad cantus laetitiae 01:48
• 17 Mith hierthæ brendher II 01:48
• 18 Melody from Hultebro 02:18
• 19 Anonymous: The Warrior with his Lyre 01:26
• 20 Anonymous: Gethornslåt 01:09
• 21 Anonymous: Grímur á Miðalnesi 01:13
• 22 Jesus Christus nostra salus 06:00
• 23 Nobilis humilis 04:53
• 24 Gaudet mater ecclesia 03:36
• 25 Antiphona: Hostia grata Deo 01:16
• 26 Antiphona: Ferro transecuit 01:12
• 27 Anonymous: Improvisation on ‘Gaudet mater ecclesia’ 01:09
• 28 Sancta Anna, moder Christ 01:48
• 29 Sequentia: Diem festum veneremur 06:25
• Total Runtime 01:16:13

Info for 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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