Ensemble Mare Balticum - Ice & Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia (2016) {Delphian Official Digital Downloads}

This new release is the second volume in Delphian Records’ monumental collaboration with the European Music Archaeology Project. The series explores the earliest known music from Scandanavia. Together with partners from ten European countries, the European Music Archaeology Project has researched and brought to life ancient music from 40,000 BC to present day. The group will hold a series of international exhibitions, which will allow the public to more fully understand the crucial role that music played in ancient societies. This album includes songs improvised on Viking instruments, as well as notated songs from the earliest centuries of Christianity in Scandinavia.

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Personnel:
Åke Egevad
Viking Age bone flute, lyre, hornpipe, animal horn, wooden lur
Jens Egevad
lyres, bowed lyre (stråkharpa), wooden lur, frame drum

Ensemble Mare Balticum
Ute Goedecke
voice, medieval harp, medieval bone recorder, shawm, Jew’s harp, shells
Per Mattsson
symphony, rebec, vielle, tromba marina, bells
Stefan Wikström
tambourine, wooden lur
Aino Lund Lavoipierre
voice, pellet bells

Cajsa S. Lund
project co-ordinator & frame drum




tracklist:
01. Dromde mik en drom i nat [Codex Runicus, ca.1300] (medieval bone recorder)
02. Signals to the Aesir Gods (wooden lurs, frame drum)
03. In the Village. Musical Pastimes (bone flute, lyre)
04. In the Village II. Evening (Birka lyre, Cologne lyre)
05. LYLLE. Mith hierthae brendher [Codex AM 76, ca.1400] (voice, shells, vielle, tambourine)
06. ERLENDSSON. sequentia. Lux illuxit [ca.1170] (voice, symphonia)
07. cantio. Scribere proposui [Piae Cantiones, ca.1582] (medieval harp, vielle, pellet bells)
08. Dromde mik en drom i nat [Codex Runicus, ca.1300] (bells)
09. Ramus virens olivarum [Piae Cantiones, ca.1582] (voice, symphonia, tambourine)
10. Dromde mik en drom i nat [Codex Runicus, ca.1300] (voice duet)
11. Dromde mik en drom i nat [Codex Runicus, ca.1300] (medieval harp)
12. Dromde mik en drom i nat [Codex Runicus, ca.1300] (symphonia)
13. Nobis est natus hodie - In natali Domini [Codex Specialnik, ca.1500] (rebec)
14. estampie. Ferro transecuit [Piae Cantiones, ca.1582] (medieval bone recorder, vielle)
15. estampie. Pax patrie [Decus Ecclesie, ca.1400] (medieval harp, vielle)
16. rondellus. Ad cantus laetitiae [ca.1400] (voice, medieval harp, bells)
17. LYLLE. Mith hierthae brendher [Codex AM 76, ca.1400] (shawm, symphonia, pellet bells)
18. Melody from Hultebro (hornpipe, frame drum)
19. The Warrior with his Lyre (Trossingen lyre)
20. Gethornslat (animal horn)
21. Grimur a Miralnesi (bowed lyre 'strakharpa')
22. JENSTEJN. Jesus Christus nostra salus [ca.1410] (voice)
23. Nobilis humilis [ca.1300] (voice, bells)
24. Gaudet mater ecclesia [2nd Vatican Council] (voice, tromba marina)
25. antiphona. Hostia grata Deo [ca.1400] (voice, tromba marina)
26. antiphona. Ferro transecuit [Piae Cantiones, ca.1582] (voice, tromba marina)
27. Improvisation on 'Gaudet mater ecclesia' [2nd Vatican Council] (Jew's harp)
28. Sancta Anna, moder Christ [ca.1200] (voice, medieval harp)
29. sequentia. Diem festum veneremur (voice)