Sharing muzak...

[snowgrouse]

Thanks, Gord, for sharing this piece playing now. Client sound like they ROCK. Guh. Hot chicks singing tough stuff. Purrr.

Here's my stuff:

Räven (the Fox) by Hedningarna. Finnish-Swedish folk music, sung in Swedish except for the last part which is a Finnish invocation for raising sexual desire. My translation--sorry, my Swedish is a bit dodgy

Comments

[g_shadowslayer]

Ooh -- very cool! Have downloaded the two Siouxsie and the Fox one. Thanks! :D

[snowgrouse]

Glad you like! Siouxsie does kick arse. And so do Hedningarna:).

I've got their other song, an ancient Finnish spell-poem/rune/runo of the power of the Female up here:

Täss'on Nainen... I heartily recommend you check out that LJ post:).

[g_shadowslayer]

Oooooh - thanks! (And ref. the comments about your friend calling the wind, one year I made a rather impassioned complaint about the "piddly-shit weather" we got during winter in our area (Washington DC) -- that winter, we got weekly snowstorms, real genuine blizzards, and thundersnow, so I'm definitely going to avoid that one!)

[snowgrouse]

EEP! Fokkin' 'ell!

[snowgrouse]

Dude! Wow.

The wind song is just... hardcore. I'm too scared to sing it out loud, but could upload it though.

I love the fact that in the most ancient chronicles Finns were mentioned as powerful Witches, able to conjure winds to get ships forwards, and at the time when Sweden and Norway were Christianised, the Finnish Vikings were considered worse than the original ones, in pillaging, hehe.

[g_shadowslayer]

I'd love to hear it, actually, so if you could :D

Ahh -- I wish I knew which area the Vikings in my own background were from. I also wish there was better access (at least in the US, in English...) to the true version of tales before the Christians came along and equated Loki with the Devil and committed various other hack jobs...

[snowgrouse]

Be warned, it IS very powerful. Like I said earlier, Finns were reputed to be good at conjuring up high winds to sail the ships.

That particular song needs a translation of its own, so maybe later:)...

[g_shadowslayer]

I promise I will be careful -- I learned my lesson that one winter!

[jhall1]

There's an excellent short story by MR James, who early in the 20th century wrote many marvellous ghost stories, called "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You". It's about someone who finds an ancient whistle washed up on the beach somewhere in East Anglia, and what happens when he's unwise enough to blow it.

A search turned up the text of the story online:

http://www.fadl12200.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/owhis.html

More surprisingly, a BBC dramatisation of the story made in 1968 is available on DVD:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NTKL/203-0609435-6065535

[snowgrouse]

I think I might find that one, yes.

[g_shadowslayer]

And am now back after listening -- they kick arse! Very, very cool! (And OMG, the cello! Gorgeous!)

[snowgrouse]

Lovely stuff. Definitely.

[snowgrouse]

SIOUXSIELOVE!