with the London Sinfonietta Orchestra and the Sixteen Choir
composed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
re-mastered by the admin at Victory Rose Music
1. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 1
2. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 2
3. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 3
4. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 4
5. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 5
6. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 6
7. Óðin's Raven Magic Chapter 7
"This score is based on a lost chapter of the Bible of Norse Mythology, the Edda.
"The Edda was originally an unwritten oral history of heathen and early christian Scandinavia, where the region's isolation led to a long changeover period to organised religion around 1000ad. The stories, myths and legends of heroic deeds and Nordic strife were collected together by persons unknown sometime during the 12th and 13th centuries, before being recorded by Danish scholars during the 17th century.
"In the 19th century the authenticity of one of the chapters was questioned by a later generation of academics, and 'Odin's Raven Magic' was excised from the text, adjudged as a 15th century fake. Now some 150 years later new research has concluded that 'Odin's Raven Magic' was indeed authentic and this autumn it is finally being reintroduced to the Edda. It is the loss, and subsequent rediscovery, of this hidden history that Sigur Rós and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson are marking here."
- Victory Rose Music
lossless format (flac):
part 1
part 2
mp3 format
