Vox Vulgaris
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Vox Vulgaris is or was a Swedish group founded in the end of the 1990s, playing medieval music on instruments like bagpipes and percussion. Their musical dynamic is spanning from fast and loud dance tunes to much more subtle and improvisation-based, sometimes even minimalist, music.
They neither want to perform the authentic medieval melodies in a purely “academic” way, nor turning into medievalist rock’n’roll kitsch. Instead, they mean that the only authentic way to approach this early music is in an improvising way, allowing for the musicians’ own contemporary influences to shine through without taking over - like musicians have done in all times. Their only studio album was released in 2003 and named “The Shape of Medieval Music to Come” (a reference to both freejazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and the hardcore punk band Refused).
After several summers of intense touring and some legendary live shows, at the yearly medieval week on Gotland and similar places, Vox Vulgaris took a break after the summer of 2004. However, in early 2007 they made a grand comeback - in Sibiria, were they got invited to give some concerts for Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society together with their early music ensemble Insula Magica.
Since 2002, Vox Vulgaris has consisted of:
* Jon Cullblad - Percussion
* Max Persson - Bagpipes and percussion
* Joel Lindefors - Cister
* Rasmus Fleischer - Recorders, rauschpfeife
They neither want to perform the authentic medieval melodies in a purely “academic” way, nor turning into medievalist rock’n’roll kitsch. Instead, they mean that the only authentic way to approach this early music is in an improvising way, allowing for the musicians’ own contemporary influences to shine through without taking over - like musicians have done in all times. Their only studio album was released in 2003 and named “The Shape of Medieval Music to Come” (a reference to both freejazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and the hardcore punk band Refused).
After several summers of intense touring and some legendary live shows, at the yearly medieval week on Gotland and similar places, Vox Vulgaris took a break after the summer of 2004. However, in early 2007 they made a grand comeback - in Sibiria, were they got invited to give some concerts for Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society together with their early music ensemble Insula Magica.
Since 2002, Vox Vulgaris has consisted of:
* Jon Cullblad - Percussion
* Max Persson - Bagpipes and percussion
* Joel Lindefors - Cister
* Rasmus Fleischer - Recorders, rauschpfeife
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The Shape Of Medieval Music To Come
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Musopticon wrote:
Hur fint. Jättecool.
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facdosanjos wrote:
great job, guys!
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seanait wrote:
love it! adrode it! :)
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scorpinz wrote:
Great stuff.
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Kragey wrote:
New CD?! OMG!
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Absint wrote:
this music is good for my Muse thanks..from the Netherlands
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gaelledavid wrote:
in the same time medieval and traditional music with a nice energy
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Cosmasia wrote:
elsker det <3 det lyder skønt
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Rasnor wrote:
nice music
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kelane tagged Vox Vulgaris with drone, medieval folk, nordic and one other tag. Saturday evening
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FlacoZombie tagged Vox Vulgaris with folk and medieval. October 2009
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dyingforest tagged Vox Vulgaris with ‘neofolk’. October 2009
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misismaganda and kriva_lopata tagged Vox Vulgaris with folk. September 2009
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kriva_lopata tagged Vox Vulgaris with ‘medieval’. September 2009
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