Sangre De Muerdago – Os Segredos Da Raposa Vermella
Label: Neuropa Records – NRP76
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single Sided, EP, Etched
Country: Belgium
Released: Mar 2017
Style: Folk
Before humans started building with concrete and steel, much earlier before machines reigned, and the steam locomotive was invented. There was a little red fox that wandered through the woods of the iberian northwest, in a land where its people were known as the Galaicos.
This red fox liked to listen to the melodies of the leaves and the stones, to the songs of the streams and flowers, and she sung and sung and whistled as she wandered through the forests looking for food and adventures.
Until one day she knew so many songs, more songs than any other red fox in those woods. Even more songs than the ravens themselves.
Afraid of forgetting those beautiful melodies, she decided to start writing a little book with her favourite songs. The book had a cover of moss and paper of birch bark, and on its pages she wrote and drew.
Many centuries later, these are our attempts to interpret some of those melodies once lost and found again, that carried in their notes an essence of times long gone. And with it we want to honor that little red fox.
We also want to honor the traditional melodies from Galicia and Bretagne you’ll find in this record, the melodies of… more
Pablo C.Ursusson: Classical guitar, hurdy-gurdy, bohdran, percussions.
Georg “Xurxo” Börner: Nyckelharpa, viola, violin, percussions.
Erik Heimansberg: Flute, bouzouki, accordion on «Ursusson’s Polska»
Jorge Olson de Abreu: Always inspiration from the otherworld.
1- Ó Albor dos Dolmens – Trad. Galicia/Milladoiro/Sangre de Muerdago
2- Ursusson’s Polska – Sangre de Muerdago
3- Agullas de Agarimo – Milladoiro/Sangre de Muerdago
4- An Dro – Trad. Bretagne
Recorded around Litha 2016 at the ColdWorld Temple with Georg “Xurxo” Börner behind the desk.
Mixed and mastered by Tobias Häussler.
Art by Marina Girardi.
Released by Neuropa Records and Música Máxica.
