Nytt Land - Songs of the Shaman - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

If The Stray Birds were going to make another album, there was only one way it would happen together. The idea was at once a challenge, an ultimatum, and a survival mechanism for a band at the crossroads. Write the record collaboratively, or don't write it at all. The result is 'Let It Pass,' The Stray Birds' fourth album and their most powerful, personal, and cathartic collection yet. The record charts the trio's tumultuous emotional journey in the years since the of their acclaimed 2016 album 'Magic Fire,' a period which saw de Vitry and fiddler/guitarist/mandolinist/vocalist Oliver Craven end their romantic relationship while choosing to continue their musical one. Along with bassist/banjoist/vocalist Charlie Muench, the pair had to face down an uncertain future and reevaluate what it meant to create art together.

In a non-pop cultural, classic sense, the term 'shamanism' refers primarily to spiritual practices of indigenous Siberian peoples. Shamans interact with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness as protectors of their communities. On their album InchSongs of the ShamanInch, NYTT LAND interpret traditional shamanic songs or spells of Siberia's Manchu-Tungus ethno-linguistic groups. These songs use ancient musical techniques such as throat singing and drums and they were recorded in their original language. The latter was done to preserve the power that lies in the sound and the phonetics as well as the rhythm of the texts. This collection of primordial magic in the shape of songs summoning spirits, incantations, and wards has been carefully selected and deliberately excludes spells that are aimed at causing harm. NYTT LAND came into being as a ritualistic Nordic folk band envisioned by the husband and wife duo Natalya and Anatoly Pakhalenko in the Western Siberian town Kalachinsk, on the banks of River Om and crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railway, in August 2013. Following three self-released albums, InchNytt LandInch (2013), InchHávamálInch (2015), and InchScopun Songs from the Elder EddaInch (2016), their tag debut InchFimbulvinterInch came out in 2017 and was followed by the 2018 full-length InchOðalInch. While NYTT LAND also continued to self- albums, the Siberian elements in their music began to surface stronger than before on their third tag full-length InchRitualInch. With InchSongs of the ShamanInch, NYTT LAND take the ones willing to hear on a journey to a place in time and space where spirits rule and even gods fear to tread. Listen with caution!

In a non-pop cultural, classic sense, the term 'shamanism' refers primarily to spiritual practices of indigenous Siberian peoples. Shamans interact with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness as protectors of their communities. On their album InchSongs of the ShamanInch, NYTT LAND interpret traditional shamanic songs or spells of Siberia's Manchu-Tungus ethno-linguistic groups. These songs use ancient musical techniques such as throat singing and drums and they were recorded in their original language. The latter was done to preserve the power that lies in the sound and the phonetics as well as the rhythm of the texts. This collection of primordial magic in the shape of songs summoning spirits, incantations, and wards has been carefully selected and deliberately excludes spells that are aimed at causing harm. NYTT LAND came into being as a ritualistic Nordic folk band envisioned by the husband and wife duo Natalya and Anatoly Pakhalenko in the Western Siberian town Kalachinsk, on the banks of River Om and crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railway, in August 2013. Following three self-released albums, InchNytt LandInch (2013), InchHávamálInch (2015), and InchScopun Songs from the Elder EddaInch (2016), their tag debut InchFimbulvinterInch came out in 2017 and was followed by the 2018 full-length InchOðalInch. While NYTT LAND also continued to self- albums, the Siberian elements in their music began to surface stronger than before on their third tag full-length InchRitualInch. With InchSongs of the ShamanInch, NYTT LAND take the ones willing to hear on a journey to a place in time and space where spirits rule and even gods fear to tread. Listen with caution!