Whom the Moon a Nightsong Sings
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Whom the Moon a Nightsong Sings is a compilation album
by various neofolk
and metal artists. It was released through Prophecy Productions
on October 29, 2010. Artists featured on the compilation album include Ulver
and Prophecy Productions bands such as Empyrium
, Dornenreich
, Les Discrets
, Neun Welten
, Nucleus Torn
, Orplid
, and Tenhi
.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
by various neofolk
Neofolk
Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial...
and metal artists. It was released through Prophecy Productions
Prophecy Productions
Prophecy Productions is a German record label located in Zeltingen-Rachtig, founded by Martin Koller in 1996. It proclaims being a "label for eerie emotional music", which roughly comprises artists with a dark metal, black metal, or neofolk background, but a unique and unconventional approach to...
on October 29, 2010. Artists featured on the compilation album include Ulver
Ulver
Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
and Prophecy Productions bands such as Empyrium
Empyrium
Empyrium is a German symphonic folk/doom metal and neofolk/dark folk band.- Band's history :Empyrium was founded in 1994 by Markus Stock and Andreas Bach, but later many other participated....
, Dornenreich
Dornenreich
Dornenreich is an ambient music band from Austria, founded in 1996. They initially played melodic black metal and changed to neofolk-influenced ambient with Her von welken Nächten...
, Les Discrets
Les Discrets
Les Discrets is a French post-metal band/musical project that was formed in 2003 by Fursy Teyssier as "a platform gathering music and art." The band embraces a musical style similar to that of fellow French acts like Alcest and Amesoeurs and released their first full-length album in...
, Neun Welten
Neun Welten
Neun Welten is a German music group primarily incorporating instrumental acoustic, traditional folk and dark folk in their music....
, Nucleus Torn
Nucleus Torn
-History:Nucleus Torn was originally founded in 1997 as a one-man band by Fredy Schnyder, a versatile musician playing a variety of instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, the piano, recorders, the hammered dulcimer, the bouzouki, percussions, the oud, and others. Two years later,...
, Orplid
Orplid
Orplid is the creative neofolk, martial, post-industrial and experimental music works of German musicians Uwe Nolte and Frank Machau. The name is drawn from the poem Gesang Weylas by Eduard Mörike, beginning ‘Du bist Orplid, mein Land’ . Orplid in the poem is a faraway fantasy land...
, and Tenhi
Tenhi
Tenhi is a Finnish band formed in 1996, playing melancholic, neofolk music. The word tenhi is an old Finnish word meaning a village elder, wise old man or seer....
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Track listing
External links
- Prophecy Productions
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