Heilung: Maria sings to the listener of love!

Pagan folk collective Heilung with the single Asja taken from upcoming album Drif out in August

Says, «This is a love song. Maria sings to the listener of love, recovery and prosperity, chasing away evil and welcoming love. The piece contains a quotation of some lines of Hávamál, combined with a selection of blessing words meant to provide help to the listener in a troubled time».

Kai brought his part back to us after a month of isolation, fasting and meditation in nature. Only the spirits know the full meaning, but we do know that the context is love, prosperity and protection.

The sonic composition of this song is made up of very basic elements and consists of body sounds, drums, leaves, straw-brooms, bowed lyre and vocals. Asja is Heilung’s take on a more traditional folk song.

We would expect the pre-Christian people of Northern Europe to have perceived this as a magic song: performed with intent as an entity with its own power and agenda, which, once summoned through sound, follows its design and creates the desired outcome.

This is our voice being sent out there with the intent to heal and bring progress and prosperity.

Asja is composed, written, created and performed by Kai Uwe Faust, Christopher Juul, Maria Franz and our ancestors. The song is produced, mixed and mastered by Christopher Juul at Lava Studios Copenhagen

Heilung is Amplified History from early medieval northern Europe and should not be mistaken for a modern political or religious statement of any kind.

 Remember, that we all are brothers

All people, beasts, trees and stone and wind

We all descend from the one great being

That was always there

Before people lived and named it

Before the first seed sprouted.

Ippocalyptica 19states,  «August is far away, but I already know with every fibre of my being that Heilung is incapable of disappointing us because I saw them perform live in Gdańsk a few weeks ago and it was a transcendental experience. I come to this project with a metal framework, and while Heilung might be folk / world / experimental and all of that, it is in some ways more metal than the vast majority of metal bands. The intensity of vision and passion of execution is simply outstanding. This will be good!». The track Anoana,

The lyrics for this piece are mainly taken from bracteates: golden, circular coins or amulets found in Northern Europe that date from the 4th to 7th centuries CE. They are often fitted with a decorated rim and loop, which indicates that they were meant to be worn and perhaps provide protection, fulfil wishes or for divination.

The bracteates feature a very significant iconography influenced by Roman coinage. They were predominantly made from Roman gold, which was given to the North Germanic peoples as peace money.

In Anoana, the listener has the chance to delve into a collection of likely encoded spells from the Migration Period and get a touch of magic from the Dark Ages.

The intention of the piece is to playfully reconnect to an incantational language of a period where the North was richer in gold than any other region. Our forefathers presumably enjoyed a time of great prosperity and it may make us rethink how dark these ages really were.

Drif has been mastered significantly lower in volume than most modern releases to achieve a greater dynamic range, deeper lowend, transparent transients and a wider stereo image. If you want it louder, turn up the volume on a proper sound carrier.

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