Faerie News
Two of my favourite bands have been up to magic. From one hemisphere to the other, Dandelion Wine and Daemonia Nymphe are giving time a shake.
Faerie News
Two of my favourite bands have been up to magic. From one hemisphere to the other, Dandelion Wine and Daemonia Nymphe are giving time a shake.
Dandelion Wine
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| Dandelion Wine - ethereal electro-medieval band |
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| Dandelion Wine - Australia |
(for festival virtual link)
Daemonia Nymphe
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| Daemonia Nymphe performing music for Shakespeare's play Macbeth at the National Theatre of Northern Greece |
Here is my adaptation of Daemonia Nymphe's news. As is my custom, I never represent anything in such detail unless I love it! So consider this a rave review:
Daemonia Nymphe have revisited their haunting 'Witches' Lullaby' at Bandcamp. Having composed this music for Shakespeare's supernatural masterpiece, which thaumaturges traditionally called The Scottish Play for fear of invoking bad luck, Daemonia Nymphe staged their own masterwork at the National Theatre of Northern Greece, directed by Anastasia Revi.
This melody represented the Shakespearean witches, enigmatic and dangerous beings who manipulate Macbeth and make us wonder if they truly are the Fates.
The lullaby is a melody that symbolises birth: new life. In many cultures, life's loom has trembled under the hands of the Fates. In ancient Greek mythology their names were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos; the first represented the present, the second the future and the third the past, all that has happened and cannot be changed.
Lullabies have their own inner strength that can follow a soul into this world. Yet lullabies change depending on who sings them, when the protective force they emit has another starting point and carries different dreams …
So, based on their melody of the original lullaby (the dark lullaby of Shakespeare's witches), the composers set out to create four original lullabies. Each of the five artists involved had freedom to create a unique lullaby, imparting their own idiosyncratic meanings. Japanese Hattis Noit, Spanish Priscilla Hernandez, British/Portuguese Victoria Couper in collaboration with British/Turkish Reyhan Yusuf and Greek Evi Stergiou, convey through their voices a memory of their own tenderness, strength and hope.
Listening to the results at Bandcamp is like sipping an exquisite, rare nectar (I might say ambrosia of the gods, if it were not hubris), with varied piquancy at each listening, like altered consciousness.
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| Evi Stergiou and sisters of Daemonia Nymphe |
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| Spyros Giasafakis with beloved muse, Evi Stergiou Daemonia Nymphe Instruments by Nikolaos Brass |
Daemonia Nymphe You Tube Channel
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| Acrobat in Daemonia Nymphe concert |
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| Daemonia Nymphe |
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| Evi Stergiou of Daemonia Nymphe |
So there you have it! Dandelion Wine and Daemonia Nymphe! Two distinctive bands whose names start with 'D', each carrying two words. Their founders are all literary, vibrant and daring. All are friends with whom I've sung over the past two decades. And yet for all the parallels ... an enticing contrast with each other! Like I said. Magic.
Afterword from the blogger, Louisa John-Krol:
Please support our international ethereal music scene. We are small, our genres are diverse but we often overlap in unexpected ways, sonically, thematically, eco-spiritually, poetically or philosophically. Despite our abiding communal spirit, it is practically impossible to maintain studio recording, touring or publishing if listeners do no more than affirm a social media post or cycle through the web without considering how - or even if - any revenue reaches the artists. There is a reason many of us have gone over to Bandcamp. I highly recommend this platform and hope more people will join us there.
Yours in curiosity and respect
- Louisa John-Krol, Australian Fairy Review.
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