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【战意】音乐节之:采访黑伦乐队 INTERVIEW WITH HEILUNG

2021-05-14 11:10 作者:Mirandus_  | 我要投稿

Formed in 2014, Heilung is a European band that transcends genre and definition, with their atmospheric music taking listeners on indescribable journeys through history and myth via the realms of folk and rock. When Conqueror’s Blade entered into its own Viking Age in Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok, we knew they were the perfect fit to score our saga of wolf-worshippers, berserkers, and mighty shieldmaidens – their songs Galgaldr and Alfadhirhaiti can be heard in the game’s current opening cinematic and the map Heilung Fjord. 


As part of our ongoing series of Music Week articles, we spoke to Christopher, Maria, and Kai from Heilung about their music, influences, and how to best defend Heilung Fjord from invaders. The photographs featured in the article were taken by Coen Halmans and Kees Stravers.

Thanks for talking with us! Could you introduce yourselves?

Heilung: Hello and thank you from our side, we are Christopher Juul, Maria Franz and Kai Uwe Faust, the three core members of Heilung.

What is the story of Heilung, why did you first get together and decide to make music?

Heilung: In another time and age, Kai wished to record some of his poems and asked his friend Christopher, who is a producer, and they agreed on a trade – a tattoo for the recording. Christopher instantly got inspired by what Kai brought to his studio, and creativity was let loose as they began adding all sorts of crazy soundscapes to the poems. At some point, Christopher asked Kai if he could sing something. Kai, usually shy, mumbled and rumbled a bit, which resulted in him being unleashed in the recording room. Maria came along, got hit by a bolt of excitement and inspiration and added her voice to some tracks, and there it was – the little Heilung baby, still an unnamed little beast, but it crawled in our hearts and took off from there…

(Chris, by the way, does not have a single tattoo to this very day.)

Heilung means ‘healing’ in German. Why did you choose this name for the band?

Heilung: We didn’t. The spirits told Kai to name the project like this.

How would you describe your sound to a new listener?

Heilung: Take a Norwegian Viking girl, a Danish Viking boy and son of a pagan priest, and let them meet a madman, half-animal, half-German, add a lot of drums, screams and angelic voices. Spice it up with a little dose of overtone singing and not too much psychedelic soundscapes. Let it simmer a little in the blackness of inspiration that already fed the Nordic myths…. Or, forget it and just listen to the music and make up your own mind. ☺ 

 

A lot of your music is inspired by ancient Germanic culture and the Viking Age. What drew you to these themes?

Heilung: They came naturally to all three of us already from our early childhood. Maria grew up in Borre, a little Norwegian village with a big burial field of Viking age grave mounds, and as a child she was playing on that very soil with the ancestors resting under her feet, always very aware of their presence and influence.

Christopher had the revived pagan beliefs of Scandinavia actively performed around him while he grew up, due to the position of his father as a Godi (a pagan priest with the right to perform wedding ceremonies).

Kai, growing up Christian, was nevertheless playing in Iron Age stone circles in the endless forests in the heart of Germany and started early to explore Germanic and Celtic art.

The three of them met through Viking reenactment markets, festivals that show the arts and crafts of the Viking period.

Do you feel a connection to older cultures and civilisations, such as the Vikings?

Heilung: Everything is interconnected, we still have our history on display in our modern-day culture, visible in the language, our ornaments, our religious beliefs, and so on. Also, our older cultures were dealing with the same basic questions and challenges of mankind as we still do today. It’s all love and pain. If you sit as a mother on the bed of your sick child it feels the same, whether they call your culture Viking or Indonesian. And the song you sing that night on that bed, means the same in all cultures and throughout all ages. We are all connected, through time and space, because we are all people.


Where else do you find inspiration when you’re making music?

Heilung: We all very often have the feeling that inspiration finds us, and it can be everywhere, no matter if it is in the dusty ruins of Pompeii or in the train. Nature is always a great source of inspiration though.

Each member of Heilung has a distinctive vocal style. Could you tell us about the different styles you employ when making songs?

Heilung: Whenever it comes to the etheric female singing, that will be Maria. She will employ everything from harmonies to the old Scandinavian cattle calls, from sweet whispers to heart-breaking screams of pain and anguish.

Christopher feeds the soundscapes with deep vocals and throat singing, but he also takes on whispering parts, and some tricky, rhythmic passages where Kai is out of his mind, twitching, barking and gargling. ☺

You also have a unique range of instruments, including ones made from human bones! Could you tell us about your different instruments, and the process of how you select them to create specific, unique sounds?

Heilung: That is a very complex topic, due to the fluid character of the selection process. We allow ourselves to really follow the flow of inspiration and it helps to have a sound studio with a lot of space, filled with a lot of instruments and things that makes nice sounds, and the technical equipment to capture everything. We make a lot of instruments ourselves or have them made by exceptional skilled craftsmen. It’s easy to imagine that you cannot buy the replica of a 12,000 year old flute made from a swan bone, tar and grass in the shop just around the corner. We give a lot of love to our drums, we see them as living beings, made from skin, bone, and blood.



What is the strangest thing you’ve ever used as an instrument?

Heilung: Bones from a 16th century plague mass grave in Germany.

You’ve referred to your live performances as ‘rituals’. What kind of atmosphere do you try to create at concerts to achieve this?

Music is the primal language of mankind. In music we can perceive the divine harmony of cosmos, so a ritual of music in our world is meant to connect people with this spiritual state of mind. So, we open up, we invite everyone to become one. One with the sound, the beat, be a part of our circle. We welcome you to a time space of freedom, getting lost in the music, the visuals, and the scents. The Heilung ritual is our invitation to disconnect from the now and to reconnect to yourself.

The world has changed a lot in the last year, and live music is unfortunately on hold for a bit. How would you recommend fans get into this same sort of ritualistic headspace at home?

Get some good headphones, take an hour or two just for yourself with a glass of wine or whatever you need to relax and just let go. Let the sounds carry you into our parallel world, just to return from it like from a good walk in the mountains. 

There is a new map in Conqueror’s Blade called Heilung Fjord, named in your honour! How would you defend it from invading armies?

Just feed the shaman some mushrooms, he’ll take care of it. If that doesn’t work, send the night warriors. If they f**k up, the snails will take over the defence slowly, and they never fail…

Your music is getting a lot of attention in the games industry at the moment! What games do you enjoy in your spare time (if any)?

Well…. this is quite personal, the games people play, you know… No, just joking. ☺ You can actually find us sitting on sheepskins and rocking chairs in front of the fire and playing a good old board game. You might not believe it, but most of the time we are really that old school.

Then there are of course the very physical and violent Viking age games, that sometimes erupt during a good party. But they are a different story for another time. ☺

Can fans expect to hear new music – like a follow-up to Futha – or see you back on the road in the near future?

We spend a lot of the cancelled tour time in the studio, as most musicians probably did. Our time there will lead to new releases, but we have a few projects before that and still some secrets up our sleeve. ;)

We are very positive to see Heilung back on the road in the last part of this year and hope to see you all out there. <3 


Thanks to Christopher, Maria, and Kai for taking the time to chat with us! You can catch Heilung on tour throughout Europe and Russia in 2021 and 2022, check out their latest album Futha (available now on Spotify and Apple Music), and listen for their glorious music in Conqueror’s Blade throughout Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok.

 

成立于2014年的Heilung是一支超越风格和定义的欧洲乐队,他们的大气音乐吸引着听众们穿越民间和摇滚界,经历难以置信的历史和神话之旅。当征服者之刃在第七季进入自己的维京时代时:《仙境传说之狼》,我们知道他们非常适合打败我们的狼族崇拜者,狂暴者和强大的盾构娘子传奇-他们的歌曲Galgaldr和Alfadhirhaiti可以在游戏中听到当前开放的电影和地图Heilung Fjord。




作为我们正在进行的“音乐周”系列文章的一部分,我们与Heilung的Christopher,Maria和Kai谈了他们的音乐,影响力以及如何最好地保护Heilung Fjord免受入侵者的侵害。文章中的照片由Coen Halmans和Kees Stravers拍摄。


感谢您与我们交谈!您能自我介绍吗?


Heilung:您好,谢谢我们,我们是Heilung的三位核心成员Christopher Juul,Maria Franz和Kai Uwe Faust。


黑龙江的故事是什么,您为什么首先聚在一起决定做音乐?


Heilung:在另一个时代,Kai希望录制他的一些诗,并问他的制作人朋友Christopher,他们同意进行交易–录制纹身。克里斯托弗(Christopher)立刻受到凯(Kai)带到他的录音室的启发,当他们开始在诗歌中添加各种疯狂的音景时,创造力被释放了。克里斯托弗(Christopher)在某个时候问凯(Kai)是否会唱歌。凯通常很害羞,喃喃自语,有些发r,导致他在录音室被释放。玛丽亚(Maria)走了进来,被激动和灵感的震撼击中,并在一些曲目中加入了声音,就在那儿–小Heilung婴儿,仍然是一个没有名字的小野兽,但它在我们的心中爬行并从那里起飞了……


(顺便说一句,克里斯至今没有纹身。)


Heilung在德语中意为“治愈”。为什么为乐队选择这个名字?


黑龙江:我们没有。烈酒告诉Kai像这样命名该项目。


您将如何向新的听众描述您的声音?


Heilung:带一个挪威维京女孩,一个丹麦维京男孩和一个异教神父的儿子,让他们遇到一个疯子,一半动物,一半德语,并增加许多鼓声,尖叫声和天使般的声音。用一点点泛音唱歌而不用太多的迷幻音景为它增添色彩。让它在已经充斥北欧神话的灵感的阴暗中immer一下……。或者,忘记它,只听音乐,然后下定决心。 ☺




 


您的许多音乐都受到古代日耳曼文化和维京时代的启发。是什么吸引您进入这些主题的?


Heilung:从我们孩提时代开始,他们就自然而然地出现在我们三个人身上。玛丽亚(Maria)在挪威的一个小村庄博雷(Borre)长大,那里有一个维京时代坟墓的大墓地,小时候,她在那片土地上玩耍,祖先躺在脚下,始终非常清楚他们的存在和影响。


克里斯托弗·克里斯托弗(Christopher)斯堪的纳维亚(Scandinavia)在他长大后就积极地表现了异教徒的异教信仰,这归因于他父亲的身份(戈迪(一位有权举行婚礼的异教神父))。


成长于基督教徒的凯(Kai)仍然在德国心脏无休止的森林中的铁器时代的石头圈子里玩耍,并开始早期探索日耳曼和凯尔特人的艺术。


他们三人通过维京重演市场相遇,这些节日展示了维京时期的手工艺品。


您是否与维京人等较旧的文化和文明有联系?


Heilung:一切都是相互联系的,我们仍然在现代文化中展示我们的历史,可以在语言,装饰品,宗教信仰等方面看到我们的历史。而且,我们较古老的文化正在处理与今天相同的人类基本问题和挑战。都是爱与痛苦。如果您作为母亲坐在生病的孩子的床上,无论他们称呼您的文化为维京人还是印度尼西亚人,都会有同样的感觉。那天晚上您在那张床上唱歌的歌曲,在所有文化中和各个年龄段都具有相同的含义。我们都是穿越时空的,因为我们都是人。


制作音乐时还能在哪里找到灵感?


Heilung:我们每个人常常都有灵感可以找到我们的感觉,它可以无处不在,无论是在庞贝古城的尘土之中还是在火车上。大自然始终是灵感的重要来源。


黑龙江的每个成员都有自己独特的嗓音风格。您能告诉我们您制作歌曲时使用的不同风格吗?


Heilung:每当涉及到以太坊女歌唱时,那就是玛丽亚。从和声到斯堪的纳维亚古老的牛叫声,从甜甜的耳语到令人心碎的痛苦和痛苦,她都会使用各种方法。


克里斯托弗·克里斯托弗(Christopher)用深沉的嗓音和喉咙的歌声来喂饱声景,但他也窃窃私语,以及一些令人费解的,有节奏的段落,这些段落使Kai失去了理智,抽搐,吠叫和吞咽。 ☺


您还拥有一系列独特的乐器,包括由人体骨骼制成的乐器!您能告诉我们您不同的乐器,以及如何选择它们以创建特定的,独特的声音的过程吗?


Heilung:由于选择过程的流动性,这是一个非常复杂的话题。我们让自己真正跟随灵感的流向,这将有助于拥有一个录音棚,该录音棚具有很大的空间,里面充斥着许多可以发出悦耳声音的乐器和东西,以及可以捕捉一切的技术设备。我们自己制造许多乐器,或者由杰出的熟练工匠制造。很难想像,您无法在拐角处的商店中购买到12,000年之久的由天鹅骨,焦油和草制成的长笛的复制品。我们对鼓给予了极大的爱,我们将它们视为由皮肤,骨骼和血液制成的生物。


您曾经用作乐器的最奇怪的东西是什么?


Heilung:来自16世纪德国瘟疫大规模坟墓的骨头。


您已将现场表演称为“仪式”。您想在音乐会上营造什么样的氛围来实现这一目标?


音乐是人类的原始语言。在音乐中,我们可以感知到宇宙的神圣和谐,因此,我们世界中的音乐仪式旨在将人们与这种精神状态联系起来。因此,我们开放,我们邀请所有人成为一体。带有声音的拍子成为我们圈子的一部分。我们欢迎您来到自由的时空,在音乐,视觉效果和气味中迷失方向。 Heilung仪式是我们与现在断开连接并重新连接到您自己的邀请。


去年,世界已经发生了很大变化,不幸的是现场音乐被搁置了一段时间。您如何建议粉丝在家中进入这种同样的仪式性空间?


拿些好耳机,花上一个或两个小时,自己喝杯酒,或者放松一下,放松一下。让声音将您带入我们的平行世界,就像从山上漫步一样,从中返回。


征服者之刃中有一张新地图叫做海隆峡湾,以您的名字命名!您如何防御入侵的军队?


只需给萨满喂一些蘑菇,他会照顾好它的。如果这样做不起作用,请派遣夜间勇士。如果他们站起来,蜗牛将慢慢接管防御,他们永远不会失败……


目前,您的音乐正在游戏界引起广泛关注!您在业余时间喜欢什么游戏(如果有的话)?


出色地…。这很个人化,人们玩的游戏,你知道的……不,只是在开玩笑。 actually实际上,您可以找到我们坐在火炉前的羊皮和摇椅上,玩一个很好的旧棋盘游戏。您可能不相信,但是大多数时候我们确实是那所老学校。


当然,还有一些非常激烈的维京时代游戏,有时候在一场好聚会上会爆发。但是,这又是另一回事了。 ☺


粉丝能否期望听到新音乐(例如Futha的后续音乐),或者在不久的将来看到您重返赛道?


像大多数音乐家一样,我们在录音室里度过了很多被取消的巡演时间。我们在那里的时间将导致新版本的发布,但是在此之前我们有几个项目,但仍有一些秘密需要解决。 ;)


我们非常高兴看到Heilung在今年下半年重回赛道,并希望与大家见面。 <3


感谢Christopher,Maria和Kai花时间与我们聊天!您可以在2021年和2022年在欧洲和俄罗斯进行巡回演出,查看Heilung的最新专辑Futha(现已在Spotify和Apple Music上发行),并在《第七季:仙境传说》中的征服者之刃中聆听他们辉煌的音乐。


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