01	Ajunt De Bruxes						01:39
	02	Leherenn						04:13
	03	La Chasse Au Cert						04:12
	04	Hesta Dera Cagnolis						01:29
	05	Ode Aux Lointains Souverains						03:58
	06	Crepuscule Des Encantats						01:13
	07	Espirits Des Bois						03:47
	08	Les Parques De La Lune						04:31
	09	Hantaoma						02:00
	10	Dans Les Confins S'en Retourna						03:35
	11	Muscaria						02:15
	12	Les Chants De Pyrene (Sont Eternels)						03:39
	13	L'aube Des Encantats						01:23
	14	La Trompuso						01:43
	15	La Complainte De Milharis						02:54
	16	Pleurs						03:40
	17	Neu						01:51

STILLE VOLK - Hantaoma


editions
1997 - Holy records, HOLY24 - SPV 084-24882 CD (1 cd digipack)


17 titres - 43:13 min
1/ Ajunt de bruixes - 2/ Leherenn - 3/ La chasse au cerf - 4/ Hesta dera gagnolis - 5/ Ode aux lointains souvenirs - 6/ Crepuscule des encantats - 7/ Esprits des bois - 8/ Les parques de la lune - 9/ Hantaoma - 10/ Dans les confins s'en retourna - 11/ Muscaria - 12/ Les chants de Pyrene (sont eternels) - 13/ L'aube des encantats - 14/ La trompuso - 15/ La complainte de Milharis - 16/ Pleurs - 17/ Neu

enregistrement
Studio Mag 9, Alzen, Ariege, France, durant l'automne 1996
line up
Yan Arexis (percussions, narrations), Patrick Lafforgue (chants, instruments a vent), Patrice Roques (instruments a cordes)

chroniques

Chris FOLK > folklorique pyreneen
Sorti en 1997, "Hantaoma" est le premier album de Stille volk. Bien qu'il soit signe sur un label a tendance black metal, il nous offre une musique tres rafraichissante inspiree du folklore pyreneen. L'utilisation de tres nombreux instruments a vent, a cordes et percussions (plus d'une trentaine d'instruments au total !) rend les morceaux tres riches et varies. Le travail sur le chant renforce le cote traditionnel de cette musique et les compositions (tres courtes) sont pour la plupart tres agreables a l'image des superbes "Dans les confins s'en retourna"et "Neu" qui clos l'album. On notera egalement le tres humoristique "La trompuso" qui colle au cerveau et que je chante depuis plus de trois ans sous ma douche ! Un disque tres attachant qui se situe aux antipodes des productions actuelles. (January 2001)
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STILLE VOLK Interview Legacy Magazine
1: I think you also have to give a little introduction to some of the instruments you have used on "Satyre Cornu". To be honest I have never heard of instruments like Dulcian, Chalemie, Bouzouki... So please describe some of them and try to say how they sound and why you have used them. Also I am interested in your skills as musicians. I mean you obviously have to be really skilled otherwise you would not be able to play so many instruments. How did you learn to play all these instruments?

As I said in question 1, we're using such as instruments because our aim is to play medieval music with our own personnality. We're not interested in playing music with plastic sounds. So, you can find instruments coming from different countries -Ireland, Bulgaria, Orient.) and epochs. Most of these instruments can be classified into strings (bouzouki, arab lute, dulcian, mandolin, hurdy gurdy) and winds (chalemie, bombard, bag pipes.). These instruments are not well known into the metal scene but used by medieval or traditionnal bands. We are passionately fond of these "makers of pleasure" so, it was really
interesting in falling into their universe. I don't know if we're skilled: we like what we play and I think it's the most important.

01. Why have you decided to use a German name for your band? Do you connect certain atmospheres or intentions with the name STILLE VOLK?

We've decided to choose a german name because we didn't want an english or an occitan name. We like his mythological meaning because of this deep symbol: it recalls the mythology of underground. We like this because of the possibility to travel in unknown worlds and unconscious meaning.

02. While listening to your music one could easily recognise or better get the impression that you use certain musical elements from traditional, old songs from different cultures and centuries. Do you feel inspired by traditional songs of certain epochs? And how do you create a song in general?

Yes, we're inspired in particulary by medieval music (from 12 to early 16 centuries) and European traditional music( from Galicia to Scandinavia). We create our songs in a spontaneous way: we find one tune and after we think about the arrangments. The originality is coming from the sound of our instruments and our musical eclectism : we like a lot of different music( trditionnal, metal, early music.), so our songs are a mixture of these different influences and reflect our "bizarre" personnalities.

03. Sadly I am not able to understand French so please enlighten me concerning the lyrics of "Satyre Cornu".

Well, Satyre cornu is a diptych about the nature personified by the figure of Pan; We evoke an idealised nature by the lyrics of troubadours written in occitan ( south french dialect) and a metaphoric nature by refer to the sybol of Pan, not as a god but as a force wich lives in the trees, the water. So, 4 songs evoke the vengeance of Pan because his symbolic world is destroyed by the human being. These lyrics written in french have been created in a poetic language: only metaphores, paintings, symbols.

04. You label-info says that "Satyre Cornu" pretty much deals with heathen or pagan traditions and especially with the admiration of the god Pan. What makes this topic so interesting for you? If I remember correctly Pan was worshipped as the god of the shepherds. Also I read that he is kind of responsible for the word panic... For which characteristics do you adore him and have therefore decided to contribute him "Satyre Cornu"?

We're interested in paganism but only into an historic and intuitionnist way. We don't believe in any gods and consider more and more the paganism as a fuckin' trend often evoked by fucking nationalist people. It's, of course, important, to know our own identity, culture but I can't stand people wich use these roots to hate the other wich doesn't have the same culture as him. We like paganism because of these symbols, myths and others irationnal images. So, the symbol of Pan is really interesting because he personifies Earth as a living being. I don't know if I believe in this point of view but in an artistic way,
this is fascinating.



05. I really like the artwork of "Satyre Cornu" - especially the Pan-ornament on the cover. Please tell
me something more about it (concept, visualisation...).

Thanx a lot. We've chosen to evoke the world of Pan as a metaphoric world where all is trangressed. These fantastic figures are thought like in the " ferme des animaux" of G.Orwell: this bestiary is drawing like a human society but in a phantasmagorical and chimeric way. These creatures await, crouched in the deep undergrowth: grotesque chimeras of a perverted medireview bestiary,


06. I pretty much like that you use old-fashioned French-language for your lyrics. I am always interested to hear how foreign languages work together with traditional music. That is also a reason why I am into nearly all kinds of foreign Folk because there the native language is used more often which indeed sounds much more authentic. Why have you decided to you that old form of your language?

Interesting point of view. Well, Occitan poetry is the first vernacular language created in the medieval Europe. Occitan poets wanted to escape from the traditional latin. So, Occitania ( south of France, north of Italy and Spain) was the cradle of a fantastic literature in 12 and 13 centuries. This language is now reborn since years because french centralism wanted to destroy dialects during the end of 19 century . Only old people in the rural world kept on speaking this tongue. Now, schools teach this to the young people and it's really good. So, we've chosen to sing troubadours songs because they are really fantastic and important for our culture and songs. .


07. If a voyage through times may be possible which period would you choose and of cause why? What do you think is the reason why so many people, especially in the metal-scene, do like medieval music nowadays? Escape from reality... Is your music for kind of a possibility to escape from daily life?

I'm not really interested in a voyage through time.
I'm interested in history( I'm teacher) but only in a intellectual point of view. I'm sure that life in the past wasn't better than nowadays. Past allows people to escape from reality and is a way to project phantasms. This is why a lot of people uses middle age as an idealized period: I'm not sure they know how people lived during this time. In the first CD, we choose the Pyrenean paganism : our aim was to understand people in the past have apprehended the world and how they have tried give answers by creating mythology. Like I said, I don't believe in gods: so, paganism is not for me a religion. I've got an intuitionnist relation with nature and I'm not able to explain this relation. I think that metal freaks, especially in the black metal scene, like this period because this style has built some fantasms and stereotypes about this period- Satyricon and dark medieval times, Dark throne.-. Games like "les jeux de roles "- I don't know the word in english- magnify these fantasms: knights, magic. All form of art (painting, music, litterature) are the possibility to escape from reality. Our unconscious needs this kind of inhibitions. When we create such of songs, we not lived in the past but in an universe of non reality.

08. You have signed to Holy Records which obviously is pretty much describable as a metal-label. Is there a certain connection between yourself and the ?metal-scene?? Do you like some metal-bands?

The 2 members of Stille Volk are coming from the metal scene : Eviternity and Susscrofa. So, I heard metal since 1981 and played in my first metal band in 1985. Now, I hear metal but I don't really like new bands because there's not a lot of originality. My faves are Iron Maiden, Primordial, My dying Bride, Venom, Mercyful Fate and King diamond, Death, Watchtower, Korova, Angizia, Candlemass, Mekong Delta, In flames, Destruction, Arcturus, At the Gates, Skyclad, Haggard, Carcass, Obliveon, Pungent Stench and more and more.

09. Why have you decided to cover a Iron Maiden-song and why have you chosen this one?

Iron Maiden are gods!!! I think that "To tame a land" is one of my faves tracks. I think that it was really interesting to work this track like we work tracks from the 12 century. We wanted to recreate this song because we consider music like a bridge between the past and the future. So, we recreate this song in acoustic version with the lyrics traduced in occitan.

10. What about your future-plans?

We are going to work for playing live but it's really difficult because we're all working and we have a lot of instruments. We need to re-arrange all the songs so.

Patrice Roques





STILLE VOLK Interview Gothic Magazine Nicole Lydia Sprissler
GOTHIC Magazine

GOTHIC: Your new album "Satyre Cornu" will be published in august. Why do you go back with this album to your origin of music? Wasn`t the second album adopted enough for you or do you privately like the medieval music more?

STILLE VOLK: Well, I don?t know if we?re back to the origins of our music. I don?t think so because we are very spontaneous when we create and each Cd obeys to different states of mind. So, Ex uvie was very dissonant and has surprised a lot of people because we wanted to do this at this moment. But we don?t belong to a particular scene even if we?ve got some references to a neo medieval scene well known in Germany. Satyre cornu is more medieval than the
precedent but this is a neo medieval music with some
electro ryhtms. Each Cd is consirered as a chapter so
they are different.

GOTHIC: You are a band from france. You didn`t use german lyrics, why do you use a german band title and what does it mean to you?

STILLE VOLK: We ?ve decided to choose a german name because we didn?t want an english or an occitan name. We like his mythological meaning because of this deep symbol: it recalls the mythology of the underground. We like this because of the possibility to travel in unknown worlds and unconscious meaning. Our lyrics are written in French and we adapt Troubadours lyrics written in Occitan language. We don?t write in german because we don?t know this language and french is our language so our songs are really metaphoric and created from a lot of images. Satyre cornu is a diptych about the nature personified by the figure of
Pan; We evoke an idealised nature by the lyrics of
troubadours written in occitan ( south french dialect) and a metaphoric nature by refer to the sybol of Pan, not as a god but as a force wich lives in the trees, the water. So, 4 songs evoke the vengeance of Pan because his symbolic world is destroyed by the human being. These lyrics written in french have been created in a poetic language: only metaphores, paintings, symbols.

GOTHIC: There were many instruments played on this third album. Did you play all these instruments by yourselves? Where do you learn this? Did you study the medieval music and the stories of the middle ages at a university? Is that genre big in France (like it is in Germany)?

STILLE VOLK: we?re using such instruments because our aim is to play medieval music with our own personnality. We?re not interested in playing music with plastic sounds. So, you can find instruments coming from different countries and epochs. Most of these instruments can be classified as strings ( bouzouki, arab lute, dulcian, mandolin, hurdy gurdy) and winds(chalemie, bombard, bag pipes.). These
instruments are not well known into the metal scene but used by medieval or traditionnal bands. We are passionately fond of these "providers of pleasure" so, it was really interesting to fall into their universe. We didn?t study at university: we like what we play and I think it?s the most important. We?re inspired in particulary by medieval music ( from 12 to early 16 centuries) and European traditional music( from Galicia to Scandinavia). We create our songs in a spontaneous way: we find one tune and after we think
about the arrangments. The originality is coming from
the sound of our instruments and our musical eclectism
: we like a lot of different music( trditionnal, metal, early music.), so our songs are a mixture of these different influences and reflect our "bizarre" personnalities. This genre isn?t popular in France :
this is why we like German bands like Corvus Corax or
The Merlons.

GOTHIC: Will you give concerts in germany, too? If yes, when will your tour go on and what is planned around it?

STILLE VOLK: Actually, we rehearse our songs for playing live: it? s really difficult because we?re only two people in the band and we had to adapt each song. We?re going to try because we?re motivated to play, especially in Germany because this is the country where we?ve got a lot of fans.


Interview: Nicole Lydia Sprissler


Info:
Stille Volk was created in 1994 and aims at a music of celtic and medieval influence as well as adorned with modern elements.Their first album "Hantaoma" offers an acoustic music of traditional and medieval influence whose concept is based on Pyrenean mythology. The second album "Exuvies" presents an obscure music which is more electric and metallic while still keeping acoustic bits. Their third album "Satyre Cornu" rests on a very energic and medieval style, a mystic atmosphere punctuated with the language of the 12th century troubadours.
Origin: France



Discography:
1997 Hantaoma, CD
1998 Exuvies, CD
2001 Satyre Cornu, CD

Line-Up:
Patrick Lafforgue: Vocals, wind instruments
Patrice Roques: Strings