On the Playlist 23APR2019…

Went for a long walk during my daughter’s tennis lesson at the Great Park and put on some music that was recommended in the comments after one of my previous posts. I was listening to Heilung and their album Ofnir. As I was walking around the less developed areas of the Great Park and around the old buildings of the old El Toro Marine Air Base this music was perfect for that. So, Heilung is a very interesting band playing "folk" music from the early iron age in Northern Europe. To call their music "folk" is stretching the traditional meaning of that word a bit as it is a very interesting sound that you would be hard pressed to call folk if you listened to it. They use instruments that are made from things that would have been available to early iron age people so a lot of drums and things clanging together. What got me interested in them is their use of a Mongolian and Inuit singing technique called throat singing which loosely sounds like someone droning. This band is quite a trip. Their videos are something else as well with quite the performance and costumes. Thanks to Chris for the suggestion to check them out.

Heilung _ Ofnir