Corvus Corax (band)
Corvus Corax is a band of medieval scene from Germany, also known as the king of the minstrels. The East German band was founded in late 1989. Founding members are Castus and Venustus. Venustus ( Wim ) builds a majority of instruments such as bagpipes and shawm itself Corvus corax is the scientific name for the Ravens. Was chosen this band's name, as the then young Music Group in 1989 their ravens had to leave behind in their flight from the republic from the GDR.
History
The members had previously been involved already in the formation Tippelklimper. During the production of music for a fairy tale of the DEFA they took the opportunity to make in the private studio recordings, which eventually appeared as Ante Casu Peccati.
In 1990, she teamed up amplified together with the formation Zumpfkopule. Both groups completed joint appearances at medieval markets and eventually played together an album Congregation. Finally, Master Selbfried of Zumpfkopule the group joined. It was followed by several concerts in Europe and also in Japan.
1992 reinforced is then to the quintet. The Sender Freies Berlin funded the next CD Inter Deum Et Semper Musica Est Diabolum. In 1993 they took the first time on the cold Ritterturnier where they have since became regular guests.
Was launched in 1996 with the single Tanzwut a rather unusual project. Because here used Corvus Corax for the first time electronic elements. This led to the side-project mania for dancing, merge with each other in the Middle Ages sounds and electronics. But when Corvus Corax they remained faithful to the acoustic instruments. In the following years, there have been line-up changes and new entries, so that the group partially consisted of up to eight musicians.
In 1995 she appeared for the first time on the Wäscherschloss where they have since also among the regulars. In 2000, she won the Dracula heirs Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco as a guest singer for Mille Anni Passi Sunt.
2001, the Group gave freely their titles for various bands and DJs for electronic processing. The result of this project was the CD in Electronica.
In 2005, the group set about re-recording songs from the Carmina Burana. In this project, the group worked with a symphony orchestra and a choir. The ambitious work was finally published under the title Cantus Buranus. With their album Venus Vina Musica, they returned shortly again to pure minstrel music back, but published after Cantus Buranus II, where more titles from the Carmina Burana were set to music, and Cantus Buranus - the organ where different titles of Carmina Burana were set to music on the organ.
In 2006, she worked with Piranha Bytes ' composer Kai Rosenkranz for the soundtrack to the computer game Gothic 3 and wrote the theme song for the published in 2009 computer game Dragon Age: Origins.
A guest appearance had Corvus Corax in The servants of the plague, Episode 26 of produced by Volker Sass mountain radio drama series Point Whitmark, which appeared in May 2009.
In the original pilot episode of HBO's A Song of Ice and Fire, the band made an appearance at a party. These scenes, however, were not applied to the published version.
Corvus Corax appeared in 2010 with the rock opera Excalibur.
In September 2010, the band announced that Corvus Corax and dancing feet go their separate ways, which is why Devil and Martin Ukrasvan Corvus Corax left. As new musicians Vit and Steve were joined by the band. Your purchase, they gave up " Sverker " overall 11th studio album and the first new album since the Middle Ages over 5 years. Situated the album " Venus Vina Musica " a musical journey through Mediterranean countries is to Sverker deals almost exclusively with Nordic themes.
In October 2013 published Corvus Corax with the video for a new song, " Derdriu ", their first official music video clip. He has been funded with the help of fans via PledgeMusic. In November, released their 12th studio album, " Gimlie ". If one includes that was represented at the 1995 published plate " tritone " with Runaway, the raven another " singer " as an additional member over "Inter Deum Et Diabolum Semper Musica Est " is " Gimlie " the first studio album in the band's history, that was recorded in exactly the same occupation as his previous album.