Ganked from groovy_hatefuck, this is Corvus Corax. I recognize some of the horns they're playing as replicas of some found in medieval Scandinavian graves. Not safe for americanstd; they use bagpipes and that always makes him want to strip naked, paint himself black, and attack the nearest Irish pub in the name of Odin:

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They just need the Techno-Viking as their ( Read more... )

http://www2.siba.fi/jouhikko/

bork, I am getting quite fond of Korpiklaani.

Let me paint the picture so you can see...Late night in an older (1939) apartment in Montreal. Lights are on in the living room and center hall only. St. Joseph's Oratory will be going dark soon; I can see it from my living room windows. My fiance is across the continent. Badira is wandering around in her less-than-reassuring manner ( Read more... )

This morning was the third time I woke up with this song and video playing in my head:

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I must be under a curse or something, I swear ( Read more... )

My absolute favourite Film Board of Canada short, the video for Daniel Lavoie's "Jours de Plaine":

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Since most of you don't speak French, it's a song about his growing up in the Prairies in "my mother's language" that "dances", and about the colours of the wheat and the earth as the seasons change.

TYR. They're from the Faroe Islands and thus probably all eight or nine feet tall. This song is in Faroese, which is the Old Norse language that the people of the island were forbidden to speak when they were under the thumb of Danish oppression ( Read more... )

It's your new favourite band!

Moonsorrow - Jumalten Kaupunki

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PS: You too, vanatru

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A selection from a recitation of Gilgamesh, accompanied by a reproduction of the beautiful bulls-head "Lyre of Ur". As everyone knows, I'm obsessed with antique musical instruments and this is the great-grandmama of them all.

Steve found this. It's from "Britain's Got Talent", the "English Idol".

This car phone salesman taught himself to sing opera. helenkacan, you MUST see this.

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Ganked from kallisti, I give you...the Thunderlords!

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It's actually really catchy. You can hear samples of all nine of the tracks on "Noisy Songs for Noisy Kids" here:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thunderlords