Artist: Mediaeval Baebes: mp3 download Genre(s): New Age Classical: Neo-Classical Mediaeval Baebes's discography: Mirabilis Year: 2005 Tracks: 18 Mistletoe And Wine Year: 2003 Tracks: 15 The Rose Year: 2002 Tracks: 17 The Best Of The Mediaeval Baebes Year: 1999 Tracks: 20 Salva Nos Year: 1997 Tracks: 16 The Mediaeval Baebes ar one of domain music's treasures. The vocal ensemble's dainty storybook peach came to spirit in 1996 when ex-Miranda Sex Garden chanteuse Katharine Blake aimed to typeset her fascination with the Middle Ages to music and theater. She and 11 duplicate musicians and singers -- Miranda Sex Garden's Teresa Casella, Audrey Evans, comical writer Marie Findley, Nicole Frobusch, Ruth Galloway, Karen Lupton, Claire Ravel, Australian native Cylindra Sapphire, Carmen Schneider, Nichole Sleet, and New Zealander Rachel Van Asch -- defined a contemporary melodic coming while incorporating Middle Ages Paganism and spiritual moods and sentiments. Their 1997 debut, Salva Nos, was the fastest-selling debut from Virgin's classic distributor Venture, and became one of the most grotesque classical recordings of the year. Two years by and by, Worldes Blysse was released and that, too, became a success on the British charts. Third album Undrentide, which called upon production from the Velvet Underground's John Cale, was issued in go down 2000. Frobusch, Lupton, and Sleet had besides left the Baebes family, and Blake's visual modality had scaled down to nine women. The new downsized chemical group kept on, marking the music for the 2000 black comedy American Psycho. A fourth album, The Rose, followed in spring 2002. Named in award of the Medieval symbol of love, the Baebes' lingual genius was too tweaked. Aside from vocalizing in Italian, Latin, German, Middle English, and Medieval French, the Baebes added Medieval Welsh and Russian to their musical palate. In fall 2003, the John Cale-produced -- and the group's first-ever holiday album -- False mistletoe and Wine was released, their fifth for Nettwerk. By the affair of 2005's Mirabilis, the Baebes' card included Blake, Casella, Evans, Van Asch, Sapphire, Findley, and newcomers Maple Bee and Emily Ovenden. The record album continued their mystical blend of ancient linguistics, folkloric tradition, and lavish soundscapes. |