Nebelhexe album nieuws
Nebelhexe (vroeger Hagalaz’ Runedance) is klaar met de opname van het album
Laguz – Within The Lake. Het album is opgenomen in de Akkerhaugen Studio’s onder
leiding van Thorbjørn Akkerhaugen. Dit album zal op 3 mei in de winkels
verschijnen via Karmaggedon Media.
De songtitels:
- Totems
- Laguz – Within the Lake
- My Visual World
- Celtic Crows
- Wake To Wither
- Reverse
- Bird Song
- Raven Night (Nightflight mix)
- Sleeping Beauty
- Touch Of Morpheus
Nebelhexe geeft zelf enige uitleg over dit nieuwe album:
"After making three successful Hagalaz’ Runedance albums, dedicated to the
northern spirituality and in the style of folk/medieval music, I felt the need
to move on. I longed for new inspiration and I longed for more artistic freedom
in my musical and lyrical expressions. I felt the urge to explore the many
possibilities of creating musical sounds and I wanted to focus more generally on
my feelings, dreams, obscure experiences, parallel worlds and the magic that is
surrounding me. I just want to create, express what is inside of me, being true
to myself, without restricting and limiting myself to a specific genre. Being an
artist, a pagan and magician I always seek to grow, to explore and to challenge.
I also began working within other artistic areas; creating visual art and video
concepts for example. I have revived my previous artist name Nebelhexe (meaning
fog-witch), partly because I feel like going ‘back to basics’, but I also found
new reasons to revive this name. I came across interesting magical connections,
images of what I considered to be my "ghost birds" – white ravens, white crows
and white owls, that started to inspire my spiritual world. And significantly, I
came across a specific owl that was called "Strix Nebulosa". Strix is Latin for
owl, but also a name for witch, since the Roman witch was also referred to as
"the owl-like woman". Nebulosa is obviously Nebel (fog). In Germany this owl was
called ‘Nebelhexe’. Like I have already mentioned in my written works, it
appears that the white animals mentioned in folklore, like the white horses and
white cats in particular, are a link between this world and the other side.I’m not sure how I would describe my new songs. I feel a lot of Hagalaz’
Runedance is kept in the new songs, but I also think there are a lot of gothic
influences, since 80’s gothic, industrial and synth pop inspired me very much.
As a tribute to this era I have made a cover song of Lene Lovich’s Bird Song, my
most influential song. I was just a kid when I saw Lene Lovich sing this song on
TV. The ghostly song and her gothic appearance… and I was mesmerised. I aimed
to combine my music with my other artistic expressions and the photos and
paintings are images and atmospheres that speak for the songs. The two drawings
are taken from two graphic stories I am working on.I don’t want to follow a path…I want to create my own and leave a trail…"
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