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This song is called In Maidjan, the show/live album altogether is called Lifa. You should give a listen to the song right after this one, called Alfadhirhaiti. This song in particular was used in the first trailer for the game Hellblade 2. The one after was used in the final season of the show Vikings. Also, that instrument you saw near the end is called a ravanahatha, from India

"Didn't see that coming" - my immediate thought was 'Ohh you're not going to see any of this coming' - went directly down here to write this.

I LOVE! HEILUNG!!!!! Listening to their music... Helped me through Covid in January of this year (2022).

I really appreciated your reaction as you pointed out some stuff I never noticed. Heilung refers to their performances as rituals and their live shows are a unique experience. The poem you liked is an invocation they recite at the beginning of their performances.

You are correct to compare this with the vocal technique of "Nordics" like Aurora and Eivør. Heilung does artistic "reconstructions" of north Germanic/Proto-Scandinavian music (of which very little is known of course - we did not really write down notes until the middle ages). What they do is basically take what is known (like the survival of traditional music and singing techniques (lokk/kulning/throat singing and Joik, etc) and find likely roots for their origins. In terms of history, Heilung are covering the oldest period (Iron Age) - Wardruna covers more the Viking age/early middle ages (that a huge lump of Scandinavian bands have been at least inspired from. If you at all enjoy jazz (as the Maids clearly do) - search up the Norwegian-Polish Jan Garbarek and the album "Officium" recorded with the Hillard Ensemble back in 1994). It is not good - it is insanely and eye-watery good.

The high notes Maria does is called "Kulning/Kulokk/Lalning", it is how Scandinavian herding women called in their cows from the high pastures for milking. When a call is made in a valley, it rings and echoes against the mountains. The animals, a number of whom wear bells tuned so that the livestock's location can be heard, begin to respond to the call, answering back and the sound of the bells indicates that they are moving down the mountain towards their home farm. The kulokks can belong to an individual, but are sometimes family-based and are handed down so that a family's cows know they are being called and thus respond. A number of calls contain names of individual (sometimes the "lead") animals, as herds are not very large.

The whole LIFA live at Castlefest concert is epic.

They made most of their instruments and clothing themselves from what I have read.

Imagine, 2000-4000 + years ago..a troupe of wandering minstrels and shamans (some say one and the same during this time period) rolls down the well travelled road somewhere in Northern Europe. This is what they might look and sound like.

Maria Franz has an amazing voice.

The instrument is called a Ravanahatha. It originates in India and is the oldest kind of known string instrument to be played with a bow. This one was made for Maria by a traditional Indian artisan and at the time of this concert was strung with his own daughter's hair.

I have seen them Live in Munich last Sunday. If you ever have a chance to get them live, take it at any means

Remember, that we all are brothers

Very nice reaction. I like that you check the information

I have a feeling you'll probably also enjoy Nytt Land

LIFA means LIVE, so not the title of the song ;) hehe

The illustrious Nidels will arrive at some point and give you the full explanation,. but if you want to know what the "chorus" is then here it is.

I really don't know why people call this a rock band, it is not rock, it is its own thing, and has an old feel to it, older than anything modern or made in the last several centuries.

My favorite music… listen to them daily! ♥️ Heilung works close with the Native American people,