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Last Updated: 11/25/2009

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City: Zirl
State: Tirol
Country: AT
Signup Date: 2/15/2007

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Friday, December 04, 2009 


Radioshow “PVHF”, radio Centraal, Antwerp, 106.7 FM, ....

with direct live on air stream only

on 2009-12-05 : 8-10 PM European Time:

http://streaming...radiocentraal...org/ (click player)....

New acidfolk related material.



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Monday, November 23, 2009 

Jahrtal : William Blake - Lieder von Unschuld und Widerfahren (AT,2009)****

Like in a romantic vision, and some other writers, William Blake wrote two series of poems possibly meant to become real songs someday, which are the “Songs Of Innocence”, and the “Songs Of Experience”, published in 1789. The first part are inspired on visions as if seen from the child’s point of view, from his life of innocence and wonder. This leads to the second series dealing with the growing up aspects of experience, dealing with fears and concurrence.

A part of them has been set into music, freely and in all innocence by Jahrtal with German translations of them. Most often they sound like a mixture of lovely ballads or lullabies. Flutes arrangements and harmonium or organ drones create the atmospheres with guitar and odd fingerpicking instruments like the harpzither or the mixed instrument with droning strings called the ‘gzitar’, and other instruments like sarod, banjo, lute, harp, violin, flute, hurdy-gurdy, bowed psalter, duduk and hand drum and a bit of electrified guitar textures. Mostly led by male voice with overdubs (once spoken word-like) or occasionally with female voice. The style pretty much recreates the atmosphere of colourful innocence, with psych-folk dreamy flavours, but also like a fatherly tale carefully bringing on messages of recognisable experience or more challenging thoughts in a well-packed frame with just that tiny bit of tension (of distortion, within the beauty frame, never losing that core of warmth and innocence). A great idea and a wonderful enjoyable result. There are not too many bands/performers like this. In the German spoken area they are most close to Fit & Limo.


Jahrtal : Migmetsema -cdr- (AT,1999)****   

This private one-track single is a really nice song with acoustic guitar, harmonium and triangle, sounds like a family-gathering singing (male/female voice and small child’s children’s voice(s)) of a German or other folk mood song, in nature of an Indian devotional song. Like a unique mood creating a mantra of the evening...


Jahrtal : Im Jahrtal - Reprisen und Instrumentalstuecke -cdr- (AT,2009)****  

I would love to see this released as a bonus CD or LP. It is a beautiful album of short pieces which flow into one another, mood improvisations with guitar (picked and with some reverb, some zither and mandolin?) and droning strings instruments (sitar, church organ, pipes and hurdy-gurdy I think), and melancholic-happy flute accompaniments (with birds). Recommended.


Jahrtal : Lichtbuch (AT,2007)****'

Jahrtal is basically a one-man’s project by Ewald Spiss, with only a female vocalist as a guest on one track ; it sounds like a cooperative-in-mind group project. Ewald Spiss also took care of the artwork, of rather dreamscenes and of birds and nature. This is a collection of songs of various origins, folksongs from the Tirol & Alps region, as well as one Rumanian, Scottish and English traditional. Two texts from Joseph von Eichendorf which were interpreted, as well as one Tibetan prayer (a meeting with the Tibetan lama Gonsar Tulku Rinpotsche who lives in Austria must have changed his life). The album starts in rather neofolk-modes, with minor key guitars, sad singing and background flutes (aka Witthüser & Westrupp), but the arrangements, inspirations and tones quickly moves forward to a richer world. “Abschied” sounds not too different from In Gowan Ring’s style, (-with the same kind of double layered harmony vocals as well, in a slightly sad, but incredibly beautiful minstrel/troubadour style-). "Klein wild Voegelein" is an old folk song from Rumania, translated into German. On "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" we can also hear a very beautiful instrument used, which sounds like a cross between a guitar and sitar (mentioned as ‘Gzitar’), possibly made by himself, which is used more on the foreground on another outstanding track, with the female lead vocalist, Christine, on “Fein Sein”, a folk song which originates from the Alpes, but which is also much more than that due to the interpretation and the ‘gzitar’ arrangement.* A wonderful album of over 75 minutes which kept my attention and enjoyment alive. Very good!


Jahrtal : Zwei Lieder -single- (AT,2007)****

A single with two representable tracks from the album are downloadable at Woven Wheat Whispers. The first track is the track which shows how the full album started. "Abschied" is the track which I described as being in a more In Gowan Ring" style. These two tracks give an impression of some aspects of the album but there is also more. Please try !


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Saturday, October 03, 2009 
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 


Ausgabe September 2009 Mit Beiträgen von / über

SIMON FINN: Rats Laugh Mice Sing
CHINESE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC 1992-2008
ARBOREA: House Of Sticks
GIANT SQUID: The Ichthyologist
JAHRTAL: William Blake



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Monday, September 07, 2009 
ein CD-Album mit 10 Liedern erschien am 11. September 09 auf "Ahnstern / Steinklang". 
A new CD containing 10 songs has been released on Sept. 11th 09 on "Ahnstern / Steinklang".



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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 

In Gowan Ring

Lisa O Piu

Klammheim

Jahrtal

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Friday, June 19, 2009 
Im Jahrtal - Reprisen Und Instrumentalstuecke
CS 40
Sloow Tapes – Moon

Post-Pilz folk instrumentals from the mountains of Tyrol. Jahrtal is the one-man project of Ewald Spiss, who has been involved in music and art since the early eighties. Tranquil melodies, exotic instrumentation and barking dogs echoing peaceful mountains and forests. 70 copies.




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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 
Recently "Lichtbuch" has been released by the Croatian label Brlog Records. The original versions of the songs, as they have been finished by Jahrtal have been used and a slightly different (more reserved) mixing of "Totenwachelied".

Kürzlich wurde "Lichtbuch" von Brlog Records in Kroatien veröffentlicht. Es wurde die von Jahrtal ursprünglich fertiggestellte Abmischung verwendet, mit einer zusätzlich leicht veränderten, etwas zurückhaltenderen Version von "Totenwachelied".

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Sunday, April 12, 2009 
die Aufnahmen zum neues Album sind fertig!
songs for new album completely recorded!
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Friday, February 13, 2009 
Jahrtal arbeitet seit einiger Zeit an einem neuen Album mit Vertonungen von ins Deutsche übersetzten Gedichten von William Blake. Ein erster Teil "Lieder von Unschuld" ist in vorläufiger Form eingespielt. Einige dieser Lieder können hier angehört werden.
Jahrtal is working on a new album with songs (in German language) based on poems by William Blake. The first part of the album has been recorded. You can listen to some songs here on MySpace.
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