Lumsk--Det Vilde Kor

The norwegians Lumsk, are one of the bands that figure on my playlist. And recently they released a new album called « Det Vilde Kor». So I’m going to profit a and talk about their latest album. Since their beginning, Lumsk have made a progressive passage from a metal sound with some folk influences to a style that mixes folk, progressive rock, and now and then some metal.

Although this change, they made it with the elegance of their discs, as for example the latest one «Troll». «Det Vilde Kor»is a special project, where the seven musicians from Trondheim, play a collection of poems with the same name of the album, written by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. In addition to Knut poems, they added folk melodies and some progressive waves.

This new album can be separated in three different parts. The first part (and the most interesting in my opinion) is built and strengthen by four initial songs, where the melancholic power of the poems takes over the music. The violins of Siv Lena Laugtug and the voice of the singer Stine Mari Langstrand evoke the beautiful and sterile landscapes of Norway, and they create in listener emotions, due to the force of the songs.

Then we have the second part that is more progressive and we notice that on songs, «Lad Spille Med Var Over Jorden», «Duttens», being the last song of the second part «Sven Herlufesens Ord».

The last part gains an environment of a cabaret and this by loosing the pop/folk sonority morphing to a jazz/metal sonority, which runs after us and nails our attention till the end of the album!

This work from Lumsk is with no doubt a great example of the folk music, that is emerging.

If you got curious buy their new album, our just tell me something.

Stéphane Correia Bernardo