History
TENGWAR is an idea, a deep search, a dream.
Of course, the dream wouldn't be possible without a band. But that is a long
story...
After the first demo attempts made in 2001 by composer, singer and bass player
Thorvi Fairstone in collaboration with guitarist Julián Barrett (LORIHEN) and
Galician piper Mariano Rapán (ACHAIVA DA PONTE), the need to settle a band
starts to be noticeable.
Being a part of a trend including strategic allegiance with groups such as
Dolmen and Skiltron, the band made the first steps on its own on October of
2003, concentrating on the difficult task of giving shape to an ambitious
musical project featuring traditional Celtic and Medieval instruments in almost
every song.
Thus, Julián and Fernando Bonino –guitarist and drummer of DOLMEN– join together
with Thorvi Fairstone and the Galician piper Juan Pablo Aguirre
(GALAIKATOLEMIA), and a little later, female bass player Patricia Flores, this
resulting in the founding core of TENGWAR.
This team succeeded in the recording of the first demo of the band in which
Irish folk fiddler Alfredo Fariña (DERWIDD) was also involved as a guest
musician.
But soon Julián Bonino was absorbed by a personal project and there would be a
vacancy in the guitarist place for more than a while.
Finally with the incorporation of guitarist Germán Hecker the band was completed
and ready to strike. The dream was marching.
Disinterested collaboration of "Celtic" and "medieval" musicians such as
violinist Seumas Mac Lìonadair (FINGAL, BRIONNA), flautists Rubén Soifer and
Gachi Flores (TOCANDO EL AIRE) or the singers Martín Príncipe (ARKHAM) and Abel
Leguizamón (DOLMEN) to mention some, and the guitarist Emilio Souto (SKILTRON,
FËANOR) was the key to finally configure the band.
Many difficulties and efforts having been left behind, TENGWAR finally reaches
the audiences on October 9 of 2004, in a festival given by the Argentine Tolkien
Association (ATA).
After this presentation Seumas Mac Líonadair, Rubén Soifer and Gachi Flores
formally join permanent staff of the band.
These days the band plays some of the songs that are intended to be a part of
their first album: "The Halfling's Rise"
The circle closes. The idea becomes reality. The dream lives on.
Idea and Concept
Near the year 1999, having been captivated for a long time by J.R.R.
Tolkien's narrative, Thorvi Fairstone feels the ultimate impulse that made him
found TENGWAR.
The idea incubated through many years was in its prime.
And that idea couldn't be separated from the concept: fascinated since childhood
with that "tell-tale" proper from the Opera (Wagner, Mussorgsky, Verdi) as well
as from "program music" of Romanticism (Mendelsohn, Saint Sans, Grieg,
Rimsky-Korsakoff), he has met a fascinating story, worth to tell, irresistible.
But an idea needs a language to be expressed.
And the search of that language would lead him to find one of his three great
musical passions: Celtic Music. The other two being Power Metal and Medieval
Music.
To flow, a language must be acknowledged, drunk from its very fountains.
That's why, after his incursion into traditional institutions such as Centro
Galicia de Buenos Aires (School of Celtic Music, Polyphonic Chamber Choir and
Abrego Celtic Chamber Orchestra) where he made a deep exploration of Galician
roots and folklore, since 2000 he became a part of ACHAIVA DA PONTE (Celtic Folk
Music).
From this powerful crossing, Tolkien and Celtic Music vs. Power Metal,
Romanticism and Medieval Music, TENGWAR comes to life.
The books of J.R.R. Tolkien, his fantastic world, full of magic and heroism, had
delighted millions around the whole planet. His famous trilogy, "The Lord of The
Rings", has every ingredient of the Epic Fantasy genre as well as great
contributions from Nordic, Germanic and Celtic traditions.
On "The Halfling's Rise" -their first work, from which two tracks are
anticipated on the Demo EP "The Pilgrim's March"- TENGWAR aim to make homage to
that magic from a musical point of view, trying to catch the most impressive
passages lived by the heroes of Middle-Earth during the Third Age by bringing
them to song.
Many of the passages depicted on "The Fellowship of The Ring" are there
revisited: from Bilbo's Birthday in The Shire, to Frodo's election -forced- to
carry the One Ring alone leaving behing the rest of the Company, passing through
Rivendell, Caradhras Peak, Moria and Lothlórien; all of that is in TENGWAR's
songs, sometimes adding music to poems written by Tolkien himself.
To divulge Tolkien's work as a poet is also a goal for TENGWAR.
On rather few occasions it is mentioned the extraordinary ability of this writer
to create verses of undeniable beauty and, at the same time, of a great
epic-historical verisimilitude, that is to say, modern verses that resemble
ancient.
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