Adas (band)
| Adas | |
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 Adas 2007 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Germering , Bavaria , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Folk , medieval music |
| founding | 2000 |
| Website | www.adas-music.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Angelika "Geka" Voigt | |
| Stefania Voigt | |
| Martina Geelhaar (from 2008) | |
| former members | |
| Andrea "Andi" Scharf (until 2012) | |
| Delia Göbel (until 2012) | |
| Jessy Schmitt (2004-2007) | |
| Christina Radinger | |
Adas is a music group from Germering near Munich . Her own compositions are counted among the music of the Middle Ages scene, but can also be assigned to folk , whereby Adas is not limited to one style, but is inspired in a variety of ways from Spanish to Irish influences.
The band, founded in 2000, appears regularly at events and festivals of the medieval and folk scene and also became known for their studio albums released in 2007 and 2010. After two band members left in autumn 2012, another album planned for the same year had to be postponed. The remaining trio then showed a stage show with newly orchestrated pieces from the repertoire that had been created up to that point . Adas finally presented her third album in March 2017.
Meaning of the name
The band name is derived from the Spanish "hadas". The word spoken with a silent h means “fairies” or “elves”.
history
Adas was founded by the German-Spanish twin sisters Angelika and Stefania Voigt with Delia Göbel and Andi Scharf in 2000 as a folk band near Munich. In 2004 the violinist Jessy Schmidt joined. The first sound carrier recording was the EP Cuentos de Adas from 2005. It was produced as a home project by the musician friend Oliver Pade, the founder of the band Faun . The sale, as an insider tip in the medieval and folk scene, exceeded expectations, which is why the CD went into post-production several times. After a little more than 2000 copies, it was discontinued with the release of the first studio album in 2007.
The debut album Gezeiten , produced by Hubert "Hubsi" Widmann (formerly Schandmaul , Faun, Furunkulus ) at Zerberus Music , brought Adas positive reviews and from 2008 also brought her to the playlists of independent radio stations. In the same year Martina Geelhaar joined the band as a further member. In addition to increased media presence and an increasing number of appearances in concert halls, festivals, cultural events and folk concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and Spain, the band's songs have also appeared on various samplers (including Zillo, Sonic Seducer).
Their second studio album Echo , again produced with Hubsi Widmann at Zerberus Music, was released in spring 2010. They then presented their own compositions in an even wider stylistic range. With the sales figures, the level of awareness and distribution increased beyond the medieval scene and Germany. In the following months, songs from Echo were included on CDs from various German-language magazines for indie music, were included in the playlists of medieval markets , gothic clubs and online radios in the folk, role-playing and medieval scene and were used as a soundtrack at fire shows, such as the Kaltenberger Gauklernacht or the Kaltenberg knight tournament . The Iceland special of the ZDF series Forsthaus Falkenau used music by Adas as background music. This was followed by live appearances and interviews with radio stations such as Radio Charivari 95.5 Munich , LORA Munich or German Gothic Radio and the success of Echo was the reason for some features, contributions, reviews, interviews, articles and the publication of tour dates in the music magazines Zillo , Sonic Seducer , Miroque , Folker , Orkus and in the magazines for Living History, Historia et Gaudium and Karfunkel .
In 2012 Adas' third studio album was supposed to be released. In autumn 2012, Andi Scharf and Delia Göbel left the band. Angelika and Stefania Voigt as well as Martina Geelhaar decided to continue the band in threes with newly orchestrated arrangements of the most popular Adas pieces and with a new stage show, which premiered at their annual concert in Spectaculum Mundi at the Musica Antiqua Viva festival in 2013. The three remaining band members presented a third album under the name Nornir in March 2017, again at the Musica Antiqua Viva.
style
Despite the official assessment of the style as "Celtic & Spanish Folk", the five musicians from Adas are not a folk band in the traditional sense. In addition to original compositions and Spanish and Irish traditionals, the band's repertoire also includes settings of old texts from fairy tales, legends and myths. The instrumentation with lute, harp, bouzouki, violin and low whistles brings the music close to medieval music. The band itself calls their style "Elvenfolk".
The texts come from very different languages, including Old High German , Middle High German , Old Icelandic , Latin , Spanish , Galician , Gaelic , English or Old English . Among other things, Adas set poems by Federico García Lorca , William Shakespeare , Walther von der Vogelweide , William Butler Yeats and Ovid . Adas tell stories from a legendary, mythical world. For example, there is a lullaby with Lullaby , which the elves sing in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to their Queen Titania. The Legend of Knockgrafton is the setting of a fairy tale by William Butler Yeats about a hunchback basket weaver who sang so beautifully that the elves freed him from his hump. A Lavandeira is a Galician song about the cruel curse of the laundresses who are forever doomed to wash their bloody sheets in the river. Merigarto is the setting of one of the first traditional descriptions of the earth in Old High German. The intention to tell stories already becomes clear in the first album Gezeiten that one can call it a concept album, because everything here revolves around the topic of water.
Concerts
At the beginning, Adas could be heard and seen live at numerous German medieval markets , such as the Hofmarkfest in Pertenstein , the Ritter-Markt in Amerang , the Festival-Mediaval in Selb and regularly at the Musica Antiqua Festival in the Spectaculum Mundi or on the Long Night of the Music in Munich.
Later, Adas played their album Echo und Lieblinge aus Gezeiten with increasing popularity in the following time, among other things in the opening act of Blackmore's Night in the Johannes-Brahms-Saal of the city hall Karlsruhe , at big festivals like the Festival Mediaval in Selb, the Elf Fantasy Fair in Arcen in the Netherlands , the Munich Tollwood Festival and the Musica Antiqua Viva Festival, the Uferlos Festival in Erding , the KultURKNALL Festival in Murnau , the Summer Sound Festival in Gelsenkirchen , the Woodroot Festival in Schwaz , Austria , in cultural centers and concert halls, z. B. in the "black box" of the Gasteig Munich and the Stadtsaal in Burghausen , at pilgrimage sites of the Irish folk ( Stemmerhof , Cobbler's, Greenfarm Festival), in such unusual locations as the head clinic of the Heidelberg University Hospital as part of a project for patients with cochlear implants , Churches, castles, Irish services, the Celtic-Roman Museum in Manching , between the books in the Munich city library and the catacombs of the Germering town hall , at the Bajuwarenhof in Kirchheim and in front of the stark naked bathers on a stage in the middle of the water in the Therme Erding and at numerous well-known medieval events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (including in Burghausen, Hanau , Bad Langensalza , Regensburg , Munich, Furth im Wald , Iffezheim , Amerang, Pertenstein, Schwaz, Oberkapfenberg , Wil, Thun , Lenzburg ). There were also other concerts in collaboration with colleagues from Furunkulus, Nachtwindheim or Wolfenmond , as well as appearances in Austria, Switzerland and Spain.
Discography
Albums
- 2007: tides (Cerberus)
- 2010: Echo (Cerberus)
- 2017: Nornir
EPs
- 2005: Cuentos de Adas
Compilation Contributions
- 2005: A Lavandeiza on Pax Musik Edition Volume 3 ( pax et gaudium ; booklet supplement)
- 2006: Merigarto on Medieval Special ( Zillo ; magazine insert)
- 2007: Lullaby on Spielmann's Tears II (Zillo)
- 2008: Runatál on Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 81 ( Sonic Seducer , magazine supplement)
- 2010: Gráinne O'máille on Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 108 (Sonic Seducer, booklet supplement)
- 2010: Eis Selenen on Best of Pagan Folk (Screaming Banshee / Al! Ve)
- 2010: Echo [Zillo Version] on 2010 Medieval Facets 2 (Zillo; booklet)
- 2010: Eis Selenen on 2010 Medieval Facets 3 (Zillo; booklet)
- 2011: Syrênen Sange on Zillo Medieval - Middle Ages and Music II (Zillo; supplement)
- 2012: Blackbird on Zillo Medieval - Middle Ages and Music (Zillo; booklet)
- 2014: I'm flying away [feat. Separate ] ( Juice -CD No 126, leaflet)
Press reviews
With “Gezeiten” Adas present a well thought-out, high-quality medieval folk album, which is consistently kept on a high musical level ... But one or two pieces that stand out more clearly from the others in terms of sound and than musical cornerstones increase the band's recognition value. "
"" Gezeiten "... The overall picture of the ancient fascination sounds consistently successful. The band knows how to shape their archaic sound images almost minimalistically into a beautiful painting. Sometimes you go the difficult path and let the songs sound slightly crooked, something that becomes particularly clear in the southern European, interlaced chanson-like pieces. "
Web links
- Official website
- Adas at Allmusic (English)
- Ada at Discogs (English)
- Adas at Musik-Sammler.de
- Adas at Rate Your Music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigi Maier: Interview with Andi, Delia, Geka, Jessy and Stefanía von Adas . In: metal1.info , June 27, 2007, accessed June 23, 2016
- ↑ Biography on the band's official website, accessed July 23, 2016
- ↑ Adas . In: Band and tour database LabelLos , accessed on July 23, 2016
- ↑ Stefan Frühauf: Adas - tides . In: www.dark-festivals.de , August 28, 2007, accessed on July 23, 2016
- ^ ADAS "Tides" (MA-Folk) . In: Amboss-Mag.de , accessed on July 23, 2016