Pagan Folk

I've come to enjoy folk music, in the form broadly categorized as neo-folk or apocalyptic folk. It's a very intruiging form of creative outlet evolved partially from european industrial music of the 1980's and 1990's.

While neo-folk artists such as David Tibet, who've I've briefly written about before, relies on incorporating a heterodox esoteric christianity in his music, other artists are more oriented towards paganism. Such is the case of Fire+Ice, who like most neo-folk artist seem to share a common denominator of portraying a sense of melancoly in their art.

Our lady of the Vanir a song to a godess, presumably Freya of norse paganism.The lyrics are poetic, melancholic yet hopeful in its praise of the natural world and the lady herself.

Apocalyptic folk

David Tibet and Current 93 played for the first time in their career in Sweden. Namely in a former churchbuilding which now gives room to the the club-enviroment known as Babel, in southern city Malmö.

I thought I should share these two photos taken by my cell-phone to at least give a little place on this blog for the event that took place. The music they play are often called neo-folk, but one can find all terms lacking. Safe to say that it is apocalyptic. This video below is taken from the concert:



In contrast I want to post a studio recording which is much softer, one of the many examples in which different singers interpret Idumea. Here featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: