Gorgeous recording. Here Margareta displays a high trilling in her vocal approach that is similar to that of early Elisabeth Fraser. Also, the vocal duet is unusual for Faun for its alternating timing and different style of harmonizing.
The song's highlight is the whistle and bouzouki carried Celtic melody. Fiona's harmonizing background voice soon joins in as do full hand percussion and Fiona's wood flute. The song's instruments soften to the extreme as Oliver and Fiona continue singing the chorus. Amazing vocal performance! At the end of the sixth minute the support of the full band instrumentation rebuilds until again falling away as Oliver and Fiona finish the song's vocal.
Full percussion, bagpipes, and strummed bouzouki fill out the rest of the band's contribution but this is Margareta's song to shine on. Somebody switches into harp Margareta while Oliver adds bouzouki multi-tracking? A quiet song that I wish I knew German for I know that the story being told is the key to really valuing this song.
Nice trick to shift into third gear for the last two minutes. Margareta's echoed solo vocal in the second half of the song is almost religious ecstatic. Fiona later takes up the lead with Margareta's angelic soprano supporting her in such a protective way. Brilliant song--so well conceived and constructed. Some wonderful soloing from Fiona on her special transverse wooden bass flute chalumeaux. Also kudos for the standing vertical violin saz solo and later bagpipe solos.
The band really takes out all the stops on this one! Set up by a slow, methodically repeated harp arpeggio, soon Fiona is singing like the most seductive siren to grace these ears. I would definitely be tempted by her offer of this apple! Absolutely stunning, gut-wrenchingly emotional song! What an end to an incredible album!
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Faun biography Founded in Munich, Germany in FAUN are a German neofolk band known for their expansive use of traditional, ethnic and modern electric instruments, as well as recorded sounds and synthesized music. The band formed in and have released four studio albums, one live album and a pair of DVDs to-date. FAUN's music is heavily centered around lyrics, both ancient and modern, and have also been known to adapt traditional scores and poetry. Their lyrics are sung in a wide range of both modern and historical languages.
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TV Shows View all. Episodes View all. TV Episodes View all. Are you sure, you want to continue yes no. No Yes. This song goes from flute led and pastoral to guitar led and heavy. Lots of mood shifts on it. Love the dark sound and heaviness before 9 minutes as the synths join in. It runs mellow again. I wish those Folk and Celtic elements weren't on here because I know I would appreciate this more if they were absent. Still there's so much to like about this recording. If I could make my own 40 minute album out of the over minutes that's on here i'd be happy.
Review by Tarcisio Moura Prog Reviewer. The music here is hard to compare: they sound familiar in several ways, and yet they were quite unique. Most of the time they sound like a prog folk band, thansk to the several acoustic parts and very nice flutes. But there are strong symphonic, neo and ethnic parts too. Some excellent classical influenced keyboards lines and very good electric guitar solos burst frequently. In fact, their songwriting and playing is so varied and strong, it is hard to describe them.
What could have been a lack of personality came across as a very eclectic, yet coherent, whole. The production is excelent and you can hear very well every nuance and detail. Vocals are in english with a few spoken words in german here and there and while not very outstanding, they are still good and passionate. The CD comes with 3 studio tracks, two of them are already played on the live parts of the record and one, Shrovetide, is a demo.
There are no fillers and the quality of the tracks vary between good a few to excellent most of them. It is a real shame Faun is no longer around. They were more than just promising. And this CD is proof of that. Conclusion: a real lost prog gem. And a big one! Over minutes of very good music! An excellent addition to any prog music collection. How to describe the music of Faun - soft, heavy, tranquil, wild, pastoral, jarring, flutes, lead guitars, powerful English vocals, great instrumentals, you get the idea.
It is not nearly as oriented to mysterious rituals and dancing around a bonfire as the band name suggests, yet a woodsy feel is present in some of the material. We hear hints of much earlier bands such as Saga, a Canadian group with superstar status in Germany before they were known elsewhere, or Germans Eloy.
Neither of those groups utilized the flute, and Faun avoided the somewhat schmaltzy tendencies of both whom I enjoy both, I hasten to say while still producing touching songs. Their melodies were more angular and somehow driven by guitar licks and powerful bass as much as by keys and flutes. The maturity level of this group was remarkable, and, as hinted above, they were exemplary in their ability to juxtapose contrasts that would seem absurd in lesser hands.
The highlights are many, but it's hard not to be entranced by the title cut with its gentle beginnings, building vocals and catchy riffs; the suspenseful "Flute in the Fog" ; "Thousand Days Before" ; the olde Englishe sounding "In Vain"; the brilliant "Micemakers" walking on our street The second CD features several duplicates but in a studio setting or with added parts, but the piano dominated instrumental "On A Magician's Flight", the surreal "Lady Banshee", and the final cut, the paganish "Shrovetide" are all major achievements.
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