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Norwegian dark folk prog rockers Lumsk revealed the double single "Det Døde Barn" and "Das Tode Kind", taken from the upcoming album entitled Fremmede Toner which will hit the stores on the 5th of May via Dark Essence Records.
When Dark Essence Records recently announced the details of Fremmede Toner, it was clear that this was going to be a very unusual album. The band explained: "We stumbled upon Fremmde Toner, a collection of poems the by Norwegian Author André Bjerke in which he had translated and re-created poems from different English and German speaking poets, and we realised that not only did we want to write music for the Norwegian poems, but also to write music for the original poems themselves. The idea of the concept was not to create the same songs twice, but to make the songs mirror each other in a way, trying to somehow recreate the idea of a translation or re-creation. Thus, as with the poems themselves, the songs are not the same, but are, nevertheless familiar."
In keeping with this concept, Dark Essence Records is debuting a double single from the album, with Andre Bjerk´s "Det Døde Barn" and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer´s "Das Tode Kind" being the first pair to be released, and, according to Lumsk, this will be the first time that the band can be heard singing in German. The two tracks can be streamed right below.
When Lumsk were formed in 1999 it was a time when metal bands and fans alike were exploring the use of regional folk traditions within the music. Already sure that this was the direction in which they wanted their music to go, and with their use of heavy guitars, keyboard and organs, violins, session horns and female vocals, Lumsk were therefore ideally placed to build themselves from the ground up, and take their place in what was to become a sub-genre all of its own. Link
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