(Folk, Nordic, Pagan, Viking, World Music, Alternative) Kati Ran (Kaat Geevers, L.E.A.F., RÁN) (feat. Kai Uwe Faust and Maria Franz (Heilung), Gaahl (Wardruna)) - 4 релиза - 2012-2018, MP3, 320 kbps

Leaf
Дата издания: 31 Aug 2012
Издатель (лейбл): Banshee Records
Продолжительность: 26:47
Доп. информация: Discogs
Треклист:
01. Under Nymånen (04:06)
02. Fjarilar (06:01)
03. Wind and Tree (04:06)
04. Frühlingstanz (04:12)
05. Bundet (04:45)
06. Winter (03:37)
О релизе:
Credits
Accordion, Dulcimer [Hammered Dulcimer], Hurdy Gurdy, Flute [Overtone Flute], Electronics, Percussion [Beats], Drone [Drones], Shruti Box – Fieke van den Hurk
Acoustic Guitar, Bouzouki [Irish Bouzouki], Drum [Frame Drum] – Thomas Biesmeijer
Artwork [Line-Art] – Maryn Sies
Band [L.E.A.F. (Lark, Elk And Fable) Is:] – Chloé Bakker, Fieke van den Hurk, Kaat Geevers, Maryn Sies, Sophie Zaaijer, Thomas Biesmeijer
Cajón, Drum [Davul], Percussion [Other Percussion], Backing Vocals, Electronics, Percussion [Beats], Drone [Drones] – Maryn Sies
Design [Graphic Design] – Fieke van den Hurk
Harp [Celtic Harp], Dulcimer [Hammered Dulcimer], Bodhrán, Backing Vocals, Shruti Box – Chloé Bakker
Mastered By – Simon Kemme
Producer – Fieke van den Hurk, Kaat Geevers
Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By – Fieke van den Hurk
Text By [Booklet] – Kaat Geevers
Text By [Corrections By] – Thomas Biesmeijer
Violin, Cello – Sophie Zaaijer
Vocals, Nyckelharpa, Dulcimer [Hammered Dulcimer], Flute, Bodhrán – Kaat Geevers
Notes
Recorded, edited and mixed by Fieke van den Hurk / Orchus
Recorded at the Orchus Studio in Zeist & Utrecht, the Netherlands
Except vocals for `Bundet´, recorded at a monastery in Amersfoort
Management & Bookings: Kaat Geevers
Band-photography by Eline Spek
Styling by Hats `n Dreads
Make-up by Denise Boon
Printed by Jan Kühr / Miroque
Distributed by Screaming Banshee Records / ALIVE

Lys
Дата издания: October 15, 2015
Продолжительность: 44:48
Треклист:
01. Flamme (feat. Kai Uwe Faust) (05:53)
02. Sol (feat. Kristian Uhre) (04:43)
03. Ran (04:34)
04. Terveh (03:43)
05. Harpa Toner (06:04)
06. Nymanen (04:13)
07. Vinda (feat. Maria Franz) (02:28)
08. Fylgja (03:45)
09. Suurin (feat. Maria Franz & Kai Uwe Faust) (05:55)
10. Lys (03:30)
О релизе:
Kati RAN's debut solo album LYS is filled with Nordic songs deeply embedded and connected to ritual and historical Scandinavia.
LYS means light and in essence is about learning to follow your heart and dreams. To trust your vision and to draw on your own strength despite uncertainties coming your way.
It is about finding light and daring to let it go, while trusting the process.
It is about knowing darkness and light are both part of the wheel of Life, ever turning, ever changing, but always intrinsically connected.
It is about becoming and standing strong in your own light.
It is 'sjalfr sjalfom mér' from Hávamál, meaning: yourself given yourself.
Credits
RAN is the solo project of Kati Ran.
Album concept, songs and development by Kati Ran
This album is recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by:
Christopher Juul | Lava Studios | Copenhagen | summer 2015
Additional recordings were made by Fieke van den Hurk | Orchus Studio |
Holland (2014-2015) and Oliver S. Tyr | FAUN (2013-2015)
Music by Kati Ran and Christopher Juul
Song Arrangements by Christopher Juul
Composition by Kati Ran and Christopher Juul
All vocals by Kati Ran
Nyckelharpa and hammered dulcimer by Kati Ran
All other instruments performed by Christopher Juul
Celtic Harp on Flamme, Harpa Toner, Nymånen and Sol by Chloe Bakker
Mandora and guitar on Harpa and Fylgja by Oliver S. Tyr | FAUN
Additional vocals on Flamme and Suurin by Kai Uwe Faust | HEILUNG
Additional vocals on Vinda and Suurin by Maria Franz | HEILUNG
Additional vocals on Sol by Kristian Uhre | Euzen
Acoustic guitar on Ran by Harald Juul | Euzen
Violin on Terveh by Nilla Flowerface | Saffron Sun
Acoustic guitar on Terveh Philip Xander | Saffron Sun
Graphic design and handmade illustrations by Solawende.
Distribution by ALIVE! | Komm-4-Medien
Printing by Optimal Media, Germany 2015

Vinda (Acoustic ft. Helisir)
Дата издания: February 8, 2016
Продолжительность: 02:13
Треклист:
01. Vinda (Acoustic ft. Helisir) (02:13)
О релизе:
RÁN Featuring Helisir
Vinda performed acousticly together with Helisir
Text and composition by Maria Franz

Blodbylgje
Дата издания: December 14, 2018
Продолжительность: 15:22
Треклист:
01. Blodbylgje (15:22)
О релизе:
A Journey past all known marker points
Change is a force of nature. When paganfolk singer and multi-instrumentalist Kati Ran dissolved her band L.E.A.F. in 2015 to embark on a solo project, RÁN, it was so that a new, more primal vision could emerge, unbound by conventional song structure and tuned to the vast dynamics where intuition and the elemental meet.
That vision is about to surface with the release of the track, Blodbylgje. Delving deeper into Nordic mythology and the perpetual currents that course through them, it’s an immersive, 15-minute séance, featuring guest vocals from world-renowned Gaahls Wyrd frontman Gaahl, that takes the metaphor-rich environs of the ocean as both its thematic and sonic guide. Restless yet meditative, finding its bearings in glacial yet ceaseless flow and flux, it’s bound to both the rhythms of the ancient Nordic Eddas, and the enigmatic essence of its spiritual guide, Blóðughadda – one of the nine, sea-personifying daughters of Ægir and Rán, said to represent the ‘bloody hair’ red crest of the waves.
Recorded at home and in the studios of Heilung’s Christoper Juul and former Enslaved keyboard player and vocalist Herbrand Larsen, Blodbylgje doesn’t seek to recreate ancient forms, it’s an act of regeneration. Kati’s velveteen, trance-borne reveries, incantations and stern, spoken word narration, merged with the abyssal undertow of Gaahl’s baritone chants, chart a new and expansive set of sonic co-ordinates. Awash in susurrating drones drawn from oceanic overtones, and the creak and distant crash of ropes and waves, Blodbylgje re-imagines the sea as mercurial and enriching, amniotic medium. A fever dream that unloosens the boundaries of consciousness, it retunes itself to both the unfamiliar beyond and earlier, residual states of awareness within.
A herald of a larger work to come, Blodbylgje is the embarking of a journey that has already ranged past all known marker points. It begins here, as a whisper to reawaken the core.
“There was always a moment, sailing between the shore and island, when neither was in sight.” – Steve Erickson, ‘Tours Of The Black Clock’
Words by Jonathan Selzer
Credits
• Kati Rán - vocalist, instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, producer
• Kristian ”Gaahl” Espedal - additional vocals
• Max Brumberg - aulos performance
• Christopher Juul - producer, mixing and mastering | LAVA studios DK
• Herbrand Larsen - additional recordings | Conclave & Earshot Studio NO
• Adrian Urbaniak - Graphic design
• Nick Steinbuch - Photography
• Eirik Storesund | BruteNorse – NyNorsk coach
• Jeremias 'Hrafn Skald' Jokisch – Research teammate