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█▀ ▓██▀ ARTIST...[ Corvus Corax ▀██▓ ▀█
█ ▓▓██ TITLE....[ Venus Vina Musica-RETAIL ██▓▓ █
▄ ▓██ LABEL....[ Pica (PM0706-23) ██▓ ▄
▓██▄ GENRE....[ Folk ▄██▓
▓███ ENCODER..[ LAME v3.90.3 --alt-preset standard ███▓
▄██▓███ K/BITS...[ 213 kbps avg ███▓██▄
▓████████ MODE:....[ Joint Stereo ████████▓
▓███▀▀ ▀██ TRACKS...[ 12 ██▀ ▀▀███▓
▓▓██▀ ██▄ █ TIME.....[ 51:21 █ ▄██ ▀██▓▓
▓███ ██▓█ ▓ SIZE.....[ 82.37 MB ▓ █▓██ ███▓
▓▓█ ▄█▓▓█ ▒ SOURCE...[ CD ▒ █▓▓█▄ █▓▓
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▓▓▓█ ▒░▒▒▒ RIP.DATE.[ 2006-09-23 ▒▒▒░▒ █▓▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ REL.DATE.[ 2006-07-11 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the kings of minstrel metal are back! hold ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ it.... waità did you just said minstrel metal? ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ yes, i sure did. indeed, in this group of seven ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ men who all hail from germany, one can find ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ neither guitars and bass guitars nor drums. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ they don't use anything electrical at all ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ corvus corax only utilize instruments that hail ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ from medieval times. things like bagpipes, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ lutes, the medieval shawm, great horns and ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ various percussion instruments all make part of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ their distinguishable sound and coupled with a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ whirling and intense theatrical like show, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ these german guys sure know how to rock your ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ socks off ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ and now they are back with a new album, called ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "venus vina musica". it has become a concept ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ album which has become a sort of musical ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ journey around the world of the 13th century ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ in "venus vina musica" a tale is told about the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ quest of a traveling minstrel who became ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ obsessed with the need to find "sanyogita". in ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ those times it was told that this was an indian ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ princess as well as a legendary dancer. she was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ also supposed to be the most beautiful woman in ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the world ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ our hero travels a musical journey through a ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ whole lot of countries to find this dreamwoman, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ and in the meanwhile he gets to know ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ interesting foreign cultures. he learns new ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ songs and stories, and hears the sound of the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ strangest melodies and instruments ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the title song "venus vina musica" (track 1) ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ for instance is supposed to be the music from ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the home country of the minstrel. it's a long ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ slow intro of about two minutes which ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ transforms in an up-tempo song with big drums ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ that do a lot of heavy percussion, a lot of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ frantic shawms, and viking-like vocals. it has ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the feel of medieval party hit ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "sanyogita" (track 2) is a rather bombastic ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ song and has a little bit of an indian or ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ tibetan feel to it ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ it even has some traditional overtone singing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ mixed in at the beginning. "tuska" (track 3) is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ more or less gypsy themed, whereas katrinka ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ (track 4) has a balkan flavor to it. the other ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ four songs have theme and flavors like ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ britannic (track 5), himalayan, (track 6), ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ arabian (track 7) and a traditional medieval ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ churchlike song (track 8). the musical journey ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ on which corvus corax takes their listeners is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ convincing. all the song have flavors from the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ different countries put into them, but the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ original corvus corax elements are still very ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ much present ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ musically seen this cd is certainly allright. i ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ expected that already, with "venus vina musica" ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ being their 16th (!) full length cd to date. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ there are no highlights for me though. they've ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ certainly made better records and most songs ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ won't stay in my head ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ still i find "venus vina musica" a very ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ likeable cd to listen to. the approach that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ corvus corax took by putting elements from the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ music of other cultures in their music, but at ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ same time preserving their own elements is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ certainly noteworthy ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ butà i can't help but to think: "we all have ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ heard this before somewhereà.". so isn't corvus ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ corax repeating itself one too many times? ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ maybe, but corvus corax exists for 17 years ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ already, and they still have hold on to the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ same formula more or less with success. they ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ still rock my socks off. especially with their ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ live shows with a lot of medieval attributes ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ this album is for for fans of tanzwut, in ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ extremo, schandmaul and subway to sally. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ now excuse me while i go look for my monk robes ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ and a tankard filled with fresh trappist ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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▓▓██ ░░░░░ 3. | Urmawi | 4:03 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 4. | Tuska | 3:38 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ 5. | Qui Nous Demaine | 4:49 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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