Garmarna - Vengeance
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Artist: GarmarnaEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1999-04-06
Music Label: Northside Records
Soundtracks:
- Vulture
- Euchari
- Halling Jaron
- Vengeance
- Nine Years
- Stomped Bread
- Herr Holkin
- Ink
- Polska
- 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.
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 NicksonFolk CDs
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