Track Listing

1. Man and the Elf-Girl
2. Venelite
3. King Harald
4. I Went Out One Summer's Day
5. Perils of the Sea
6. Raven
7. Kirstin
8. As Stars up High
9. 2 Sisters
10. Mylardatter
11. I Can Tell by Your Eyes That You Have Another Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #703435 in Music
• Released on: 1999-08-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

From Amazon.com
The serene trip-hop beats of Sorten Muld's music float so easily into the ancient ballads of Scandinavia, you don't realize you're listening to an amalgam of historic folk and electronic dance music, but rather an entirely new and original genre of music. Ulla Bendixsen's voice dances delicately in Danish over the techno backdrop, spinning tales of romance and loss while hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, violin, and sequencers pulse on in dark, urgent colors. An exceptional album worthy of its two Danish Grammys. --Karen K. Hugg

Customer Reviews

old and new combine togather gently
I got the disk as a present from a danish friend for the x-mas.She told me that the disk combine ancient songs with new rhythm. Though I don't understand a word in the danish language, I feel that the soft, ancient words speak to me as much as they speak to danish people. The music itself combine a new rhythm, togather with old sounds & texts. The result is a good disk, a Nordic music, that gave me a sense of ice and fire. If you like fast reathom (I would not call it techno, but some songs have it, especially "ravnen" and "2 sostre") and gentle sounds, you would like "Mark 2".

Techno + Nordic Folk Tunes
Even though the lyrics are in Danish, it should be possible for non-Danes to adapt to the moods and atmosphere in the songs whose lyrics are either violent or calming. The tension is also built up by the musical background consisting of a mixture of drum-and-bass oriented beats combined with traditional Nordic string instruments and flutes. For the folk-interested with and open mind. Recommended.