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Free Music Review: Corvus Corax: It's Not Just for Germans Anymore...
Hit: 5 Stars
I just tonight realized by visiting their website that Corvus Corax had released a new album; after screaming out loud and hyperventilating for several minutes, I collected my wits and rushed here to Amazon.com, and, lo and behold, I COULD BUY IT HERE! And not pay $18 shipping from Amazon.de!
I then proceeded to scream and hyperventilate further. And buy the new album.
I'm listening to the high-quality sound samples from their new album on their own website right now, and it's everything I hoped it would be. I discovered Corvus Corax, what is often described as a "German Medieval band", last year, on the eve of their debut US appearance at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival. I happened to be looking up reference photos for ravens ("Corvus Corax" is the latin name for the common raven) and came across their website instead. I listened to the sound samples I found there, fell madly in love with the music, and since then I've willingly paid an arm and a leg to have seven of their albums shipped across the Atlantic to me here in the US. I even had to buy one twice, because I played, transported, jostled and scratched it so much it became unreadable by my CD player.
If you're new to Corvus Corax and wondering what their music is like, the best I can do for you is to direct you to their own website, corvuscorax.de, where they have wonderful sound samples from all of their albums. The next best thing I can do for you is to suggest that their music is something like you might expect to hear on the soundtrack of a movie like...well, any movie that would take place in medieval Germany (not surprisingly, I suppose, no such movies spring readily to mind). Call it ethnic, call it tribal, call it medieval...just don't call it ordinary.
I haven't been able to find any comparable German bands that tickle my fancy like Corvus Corax does; the closes thing to them that I like are the Scandinavian bands Hedningarna and Garmarna, although Corvus Corax uses a lot of bagpipes, which you don't hear in either Hedningarna or Garmarna.
As their website indicates, this album seems to take a bit of a different tact than their previous efforts: the instrumentation and overall flavor of the music seems more worldly, or at least less eurocentric and with more of an eastern flavor. Veteran fans won't be disappointed, and the uninitiated should find this album as appropriate a place as any other to begin their voyage into the world of Corvus Corax.
Free Music Review: severely underrated
Hit: 5 Stars
oh my f@#%^ing God!!!!!
On that note, this German based band only gets better with time. It was definitely a refreshing experience to hear their earlier work when I did, as there are not many bands trying to break into the mainstream with this bands' unique style. However, Corvus Corax are not so ambigious as to dismay the innocent on-looker. This is truly a masterpiece that any music lover would enjoy to behold.
To describe them consicely--- Latin chanting mixed with Scottish bagpipes and heavy Egyptian drumming. Scared yet??? Don't be. This is one hell of a breathtaking album, to say the least.
High power, meditative, catchy, carefully arranged; i haven't heard anything this good since Karl Sanders from NIle put out his solo album.
Excellent, excellent album all around.
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Free Music Review: magic
Hit: 5 Stars
This release from Corvus Corax is another example of the talent this group of men has demonstrated for several years. The medieval sounds of the instruments, and the harmony of their voices, is outstanding. Everything they have done has been excellent, and I highly recommend any of their releases -- if you can find them. Don't be put off by the language barrier: think of their voices as another instrument. You don't need to understand the words to fall in love with the music.Free Music Review: Music for the Ages
Hit: 5 Stars
What I love about Corvus Corvax is that they open your ears to the idea that that music of the distant past wasn't all pomp, lace and frills. The medieval man (or woman) in street really could party with his 21st century offspring.Free Music Review: Very original music
Hit: 5 Stars
This combination of bagpipes, medieval instruments and celtic-rock music is very original. I recently dicovered this and now I became a happy listener of Corvus Corax.
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