Helium Vola
Studio-Album – Helium Vola

Ernst Horn (Deine Lakaien), who’s already made a name for himself in the past with successful productions exploring the borderland between medieval, classical and modern electronic music (Qntal), has delivered an exceptional album brimming with versatility, minus the inhibited esoteric or shallow pleasantness of some other productions of this genre.

The lyrics on the “Helium-Vola” album are based on medieval lyric poetry in the Provençal, Old and Middle High German, French, and Latin languages. - A conceptional background story is formed by a poem from french writer Michel Houellebecq.

Current music trends are implemented and put up against the medieval world in tough comparison, without losing sight of the zeitgeist: “Helium Vola” has much more than just hit material to offer and even allows for contrasts and abrupt changes in style: soft ballads are on equal terms with experimental, futuristic sound spectacles, somber conjurations compete with tender and charmingly beautiful minnesongs. Contrasts which shed new light on things.

The main vocals of the project, which contains a total of five soloists, belong to Sabine Lutzenberger, one of the currently most reputed singers of medieval music. Other instrumentalists on the fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, harp, shawm and turntables contributed to the studio recordings as well.

The beautifully designed album (artwork: Tim Becker) comes with a four-colour booklet with all lyrics in the original Medieval languages, and German and English tranlations.