Leger Des Heils - ... Über Liebe, Leben und Tod ...

Leger Des Heils takes their moniker from the Dutch Salvation Army. They are a mysterious neofolk project which is closely connected to classical music for well over a decade.

Although Leger Des Heils started off as a purely electronic project, they are including more guitars and other acoustic instruments in later recordings.

Many of the lyrics are taken from poems by renown German poets, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ernst Moritz Arndt.

Founded in 2000 by Mario Ansinn, Leger Des Heils released quite a number of released, mostly on the German label Eis & Licht.

(from Last.fm)

Time for some new neofolk/neoclassic stuff for you. 4 new songs of this band and some rare songs/other versions. Enjoy it.

Leger Des Heils - ... Über Liebe, Leben und Tod ...

(Eis & Licht / 2010 / Neofolk/Neoclassic / VBR2 171kbp/s)

Tracklist
01 Dies Ist Der Tag 4:46
02 Verbrannte Erde 4:28
03 Geweihte Einigkeit 3:58
04 Über Liebe, Leben, Tod 4:30
05 Sängerfahrt (Placatio Version) 5:07
06 The Strength Of Will (Vividus Version) 3:16
07 Wie Am Ersten Tag (Gratia Version) 4:08
08 Voran! 3:17
09 Geistesmahnung (Gloria Version) 4:00
10 Ewige Gegenwart (Instrumental) 3:33

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Lebensessenz - Tu, deorum hominumque tyranne, Amor!

My friend Lohmann made me a very special proposal: to create questions that I could answer, about the project Lebensessenz. Emerged in other activities, I needed a time to start something, during a travel, on which I could express better my ideas: a text about it.

There are times that we're with an impulse to create anything, without any pretention to give a continuous path. There are moments that we want to use the art just as a kind of temporary and instantaneous escape. Thus was with me.

In the winter of 2003, in a night, I was improvising notes in a keyboard that I got as a gift on my childhood. And I recorded, on that moment, my first demo. It was not something that I really wanted to stay doing. It was just an expression of a feeling, in solitude’s night. Thus, I called the project as Lebensessenz, because that composition was a part of my life - part of the essence of my life. My first work was created: "Einsamkeit, Hass und Dunkelheit sind meine Lebensessenz" (Solitude, Hate and Darkness are the essence of my life). These were the components of my 17th's years old, when I was doing my first steps with the music. On that time, I have recorded also in cassette some other melodies. Mysteriously, during a night of insomnia, I found these tapes completely destroyed, on the corridor of where I live. Then, I got no chances to hear them again.

(Read all here)

I felt like it's time to introduce some more neo-classical or in this case some sweet piano music to the blog. I bet a lot of people allready know about Lebensessenz. A guy from Brasil recording some very fine stuff. Give this a spin once in a while when you have the need to don't feel all that grim ;)

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[ Dunkelheit Produktionen / 2009 / Neo-Classical / CBR@320 ]

Tracklist

01. Farewell Letter (4:28)
02. Über die Brücke der Träume (9:26)
03. Franziskas Brief (3:52)
04. Learning with mistakes (5:39)
05. Tu, deorum hominumque tyranne, Amor (3:59)
06. A nocturnal dolorsalgia (3:59)
07. Farewell Letter II (3:52)
08. Visionen und Erinnerungen aus Wahlheim (4:35)
09. Der Anfang, unsere Geschichte (3:04)
10. Leb' Wohl, Debora! (4:15)

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Camerata Mediolanense - Madrigali

This latest CD from Camerata Mediolanense reflects some new developments in sound and material. Moving away from their folky origins, the new album features the operatic voice of Daniela Badeski accompanied by synths and drums, and employs fuller, neo-classical textures. Although some of the music is by Camerata Mediolanense, all of the texts are provided by some old and some not so old European songs, which are sung in their native German, French and Russian as well as Italian. Material ranges from 'L'Homme Arme', the Fifteenth Century French song (of which the melody was utilised in some 31 Renaissance masses) to 'Lili Marleen', the sentimental wartime hit. The last two tracks are more experimental. 'Taberna' is a soundtrack of café clatter, while 'Madchenlied' is a very busy song cleverly combining numerous layers of musical style.

via Fluxeuropa

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[Italy / 1998 / Triton / Modern classical - Medieval / 192kbps]

Tracklist:
1 Der Tod 3:50
2 L'Homme Armé 1:38
3 Podmoskovnye Vecera 5:52
4 Madrigale 4:22
5 Canto Di Popolo 4:49
6 Lili Marleen 6:22
7 Taberna 2:17
8 Mädchenlied 4:12
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