Vengeance

Garmarna - Vengeance

Vengeance
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $5.42
You Save: $6.56 (55%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album



(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Artist: Garmarna
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1999-04-06
Music Label: Northside Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Vulture
  2. Euchari
  3. Halling Jaron
  4. Vengeance
  5. Nine Years
  6. Stomped Bread
  7. Herr Holkin
  8. Ink
  9. Polska
  10. The Robber

Music reviews of Vengeance

Music Review: Very, Very Hot
Rating: 4 Stars

First off, a couple of disappointments: the lyrics were provided in English, but not in Swedish, or Norse, or whatever the hell they speak up there. Obviously, I am not going to be able to make sense of that language, since I don't even know what it is, but I really like to be able to associate the sound with the printed word, and if a side-by-side translation is available, so much the better.

Secondly, a couple of the tracks are neither intense nor exquisite. Mind you that's maybe one track and a couple of passages out of ten, which leaves...

8+ tracks of extremely intense, exquisite, violent, bloody, beautiful folk music set to contemporary rhythms with layers of synth and danceable motions and haunting melodies and frightening lyrics and wow. This is good stuff.

I occasionally think, while listening to it, that this is the kind of music that Sinead O'Connor might have made if she wasn't an ego obsessed celebrity hunter. Except she would have done it to Irish music, as she now and then did.

The thing kicks off with Gamen/Vulture probably the most electropop on the album, but it alone is worth the price of the disc. Long about track 8 (Blaeck/Ink) is a piece that you should listen to once -- then guess at the subject matter of the piece -- and then listen to again, with the lyrics in hand. Unless you know Norse, or Swedish, or whatever it is up there, this is a delightfully unlikely juxtaposition of music and text.

All in all: this is a tremendously fun album, and I am putting the other Garmarna discs on my wishlist.
More Vengeance free music reviews:
1 2 3

Description of Vengeance

It begins with an eerie backwards fiddle, then the beats kick in, banging for dear life, and the cool, authoritative voice of Emma Härdelin floats over the top. It's the third Garmarna album, fulfilling every promise they'd made on their first two records. The ancient and modern achieve an almost perfect balance here, the original material sounding as if it should be centuries old. Blood, guts, violence, love, they're all here, every aspect of the human condition. While the band conjures up musical magic, it's Härdelin who emerges as the sorceress, the true star, with a voice that just seems to bewitch. Put it all together, and you have something that's more than the sum of its impressive parts. This is the record you always knew Garmarna could make. --Chris Nickson

Folk CDs

Music Genres
Bestsellers in Folk CDs
Another Place ImageMargie Adam - Another Place
Release date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Best price: $16.99
Road of the Heart ImageAnn Reed - Road of the Heart
Release date: 1994-06-29; Music CD
Best price: $29.99
Back & Forth ImageAnn Reed - Back & Forth
Release date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Price in other shops: $9.98
Rainbow Path ImageKay Gardner - Rainbow Path
Release date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Best price: $15.05
Price in other shops: $17.99
Grant Me Eyes ImageJoanne Rand - Grant Me Eyes
Release date: 2001-08-02; Music CD
Best price: $9.96
Price in other shops: $14.98
Hello Betty! ImageBetty - Hello Betty!
Release date: 1994-03-21; Music CD
Price in other shops: $11.98
Amazon ImageKay Gardner - Amazon
Release date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Price in other shops: $9.98
Stage 2: Human Heart ImageStage 2: Human Heart
Release date: 1997-04-11; Music CD
Best price: $14.95
Price in other shops: $19.98
Heart Is the Only Nation ImageCyntia Smith, Ruth Barrett - Heart Is the Only Nation
Release date: 1996-07-17; Music CD
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: $16.98
Giants! A Colossal Collection of Tales and Tunes ImageGiants! A Colossal Collection of Tales and Tunes
Greathall Productions, Inc.; Release date: 2000-04-05; Published: 1996; Music CD
Best price: $8.68
Price in other shops: $14.95
Similar CDs
Edda - An Icelandic Saga - Myths From Medieval Iceland / Sequentia ImageEdda - An Icelandic Saga - Myths From Medieval Iceland / Sequentia
Release date: 1999-05-18; Music CD
Best price: $6.04
Price in other shops: $8.99
Nordic Roots 3 ImageNordic Roots 3
Release date: 2001-10-02; Music CD
Best price: $6.79
Nordic Roots 2: Northside Sampler ImageNordic Roots 2: Northside Sampler
Release date: 1999-10-12; Music CD
Best price: $12.94
Hildegard Von Bingen ImageGarmarna - Hildegard Von Bingen
Release date: 2001-09-04; Music CD
Best price: $89.99
Mark II ImageSorten Muld - Mark II
Release date: 1999-08-03; Music CD
Best price: $35.99
Nordic Roots: Northside Sampler ImageNordic Roots: Northside Sampler
Release date: 1998-06-09; Music CD
Best price: $9.32
Garmarna ImageGarmarna
Release date: 2001-05-08; Music CD
Best price: $84.82
Tra ImageHedningarna - Tra
Release date: 1998-03-17; Music CD
Best price: $107.82
Vittrad ImageGarmarna - Vittrad
Release date: 1994-11-22; Music CD
Best price: $11.87
Price in other shops: $11.98
Gods Musicians ImageGarmarna - Gods Musicians
Release date: 1996-09-17; Music CD
Best price: $13.55
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles