NEW LIVE CD
"Faun & The Pagan Folk Festival Live" Released 28th March 2008
Including five new songs and with guest musicians SIEBEN (UK) & In Gowan Ring (USA).
ABOUT FAUN FAUN combines ancient instruments with modern influences to create an enchanting and powerful atmosphere.
The band’s performances incorporates with up to three voices chant and employs many different instruments. For example: Celtic harp, nyckelharpa, various lyres, bagpipes, large Japanese taiko drums, cister, Pagan zither, flutes and even Arabic instruments like dombra, rebab, riq, oud, darabukka and bendir.
Influences of Celtic folk, medieval music and Arabic rhythmic tones fusing with driving beats draws an ever fast growing crowd of followers.
The ensemble FAUN was founded in early 2002 in Munich and has performed at more than 4000 occasions in festivals, medieval markets, concert halls and churches throughout Europe. For example: Mèra Luna Festival, Elf Fantasy Fair (Holland), Wave Gotik Treffen 02, 03, 04, 05 & 07, Fiesta Celtica Biella (Italy), Zillo Open Air, Folkwoods Folkfestival (Netherlands), Arena van Vletingen (Belgium), Savari Karn..Hungary), Palladius/Barcelona and many more....
In 2004 FAUN started working together with a theatre and stage musician Niel Mitra (Sampler, Workstation and Synthesizer).
Since then FAUN mostly performs together with Niel Mitra on amplified stages.
Ocassionally when requested, a set of medieval acoustic music (unplugged) is offered.
Til today FAUN has released five longplay CDs:
"Zaubersprüche" (Incantations) - 2002
"Licht" (Light) - 2004
"Renaissance" - 2005
"Totem" - 2007
"FAUN & the pagan folk festival - LIVE" - 2008
and two DVD’s:
"Lichtbilder" (Light pictures) - 2004 (not available anymore)
"Ornament" - 2007
In cooperation with distributor Curzweyhl / Rough Trade (Germany) and the Label "NoirRecords" (USA) they have til today sold many thousand CDs worldwide.
Their latest CD "TOTEM" hit rank no. 78 in the German (media control) album charts, rank no. 6 in the German alternative charts and rank no. 1 in the German medieval charts.
Comments from euphoric press:
"Simply wonderful..."
- ORKUS, Faun "Licht" / CD of the month
"A complete masterpiece.."
-ORKUS, Faun "Totem" / 10 of 10 points
"A dark and hypnotic work, that tells of the myths and legends of the medieval time...absolutely attractive and sensational"
-SONIC SEDUCER, Faun "Totem" / 10 of 10 points
"Unique, new and masterly - FAUN set themselves apart from the mass..."
- ZILLO
"The summer solstice, or Midsummer Day, is the great turning-point in the sun’s career, when, after climbing higher and higher day by day in the sky, the luminary stops and thenceforth retraces his steps down the heavenly road... According to a mediæval writer, the three great features of the midsummer celebration were the bonfires, the procession with torches round the fields, and the custom of rolling a wheel. " - The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer
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I present to you DOLMEN, my new musical production from Argentina... Ancestral metal with uilleann pipes, fiddles, whistles and O..carolan..s ancient tunes... Cooming soon, new web at www. ancestraltunes. com and myspace renovated with more songs... Our music is dedicated to the memory of john o..donohue... Best wishes!!... Julian Bonino MSN: ancestral05@hotmail.com
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