Orplid (band)

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Orplid
General information
Genre (s) Neofolk , neoclassical
founding 1996
Website www.orplid.de
Founding members
Frank Machau
Word , picture, song
 Uwe Nolte

Orplid is a German music group from Halle an der Saale . Musically, the band moves between neofolk and neoclassical .

history

Orplid was founded in the summer of 1996 under the motto “Preservation and revitalization of German poetry”.

The founders are Frank Machau and Uwe Nolte . Other members of Orplid were and are Claudia Arndt (music, composition & vocals), Volker Willhardt (composition), Nadine Spindler and Sandra Fink (vocals).

Dying Satyr was recorded in a home studio and then mastered again by Markus Stock . According to Nolte, the recordings "lasted for about two to three years [...]". Other music projects from Orplid's artistic environment are Sonnentau, Barditus (Uwe Nolte) and primus inter pares (Frank Machau). After a long break from the project, Orplid announced in August 2015 that they would be working on a new album. Probable title: "Deus lo vult".

Music style and lyrics

The name Orplid refers to a poem by Eduard Mörike called Gesang Weylas . It describes a paradisiacal island on the other side of the sea, a pure and untouched world in which the searching soul finds its home. Accordingly, the work of the band should offer the listener a refuge from poetry, beauty and song.

Nolte acts as the band's lyricist. Orplid tends towards themes of nature mysticism , mythology and folklore . According to his own statement, Nolte's inspiration comes from pure intuition that he is neither professionally qualified nor exceptionally well educated in these areas. The themes of the songs range from Germanic paganism and Greek legends to Christian symbolism of the early Middle Ages and natural romanticism. In addition to verses written by Uwe Nolte himself, the works of well-known German poets such as Friedrich Schiller , Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Joseph von Eichendorff , Gottfried Benn , Oda Schaefer , Frank Wedekind and the contemporary poet Rolf Schilling were set to music.

Frank Machau is the main composer of Orplid. The music is a combination of neo-folk and neo-classical influences and, according to Nolte, should "underpin the linguistic images and continue to invite you to dance, dream and internalize". According to their own statement, the two members of Orplid have no favorites in the respective genre, and Nolte's collaborations in the Neofolk area are all "primarily friendly, not artistic". He never saw himself as a “new folk”. Strictly speaking, they “actually have nothing to do with anything in the Neofolk scene” except for themselves. With Orplid they stand “but with Orplid inevitably for what should actually stand for Neofolk: cultural identity, human demands and lived naturalness”. For the album Sterbender Satyr , Nolte announced “[totally] ollly unusual influences and soundscapes”, but “did not want to further dissect and explain the music for the time being”. "Classic film fanfares and delicate bells" introduce the album. In the non- pop webzine, Sandra Fink's singing in Die Seherin was described as a “vocal mixture of Diamanda Galas and Tamara Danz ”. In addition, The Human League is an important influence, Being Boiled is "strongly quoted" in Amil's evening prayers . The song of the spring nymph, in turn, refers to Joy Division and the English underground. On the album Greifenherz , according to Tony F. from Nonpop, a "fairly electronic basic orientation" predominates, "but it never leads to a sterile sound". In Lucifer “a bombastic, massive and dense soundscape with distorted grumbling guitars and urging marching drums unfolds, which makes you think of pieces like 'Archangel Michael' from 'Nocturnal Disciples', although 'Lucifer' is a distinct trace dirtier and colder works ". The following, quieter song, Schwertgesang , which is characterized by acoustic guitars, “has to be - positively meant - simply attest a closeness to Neofolk”.

Orplid's music and poetry, which are influenced by romanticism, offer a reactionary scope for interpretation, which was taken up by the new right and right-wing extremists. Subsequently, a lack of demarcation of the group was criticized, which was tied to Uwe Nolte's willingness to cooperate with new right media and companies, especially despite the defense that he was not interested in politics.

Discography

  • 1997: Orplid
  • 1998: homecoming
  • 1998: Destiny (vinyl)
  • 1999: Hallowed Be The Dead Name
  • 2000: Orplid (re-edition)
  • 2000: Barbarossa (vinyl)
  • 2002: Nocturnal disciples
  • 2002: Nocturnal Disciples (Vinyl)
  • 2006: Dying Satyr
  • 2007: early works
  • 2007: Early Works (Special Edition)
  • 2008: griffin heart

Compilations

  • The Gods Grace (Black Magazine)
  • Forever immobile (Cavalcare la Tigre)
  • Spring / Will and Action (The Gray Corps)
  • Beyond Here (Miroque VI)
  • Silence I (baptism of light)
  • Sons of Ares (To Magic II)
  • The girl from abroad (cenotaph)
  • There in moss-covered crevices + in the evening the forest rustles (Eichendorff song collection)
  • Stille II (Looking for Europe)
  • The Seer (Orkus-Magazin)
  • I slumber on your eyelids (Gothic Spirits)

literature

  • Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten: Looking For Europe . 2nd Edition. Index, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936878-02-8 .
  • Andreas Speit (Ed.): Aesthetic mobilization. Dark Wave, Neofolk and Industrial in the field of tension of right-wing ideologies . Unrast Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89771-804-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k dialogues. BARDITUS & NOLTEX. (No longer available online.) NolteX, archived from the original on February 18, 2013 ; accessed on October 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.noltex.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Orplid "Dying Satyr" CD. Nonpop, March 15, 2006, accessed October 23, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Tony F .: ORPLID: Gryphon heart. Nonpop, November 8, 2008, accessed October 23, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Markus Eck: ORPLID. Identity, claim and naturalness. Metalmessage, July 17, 2006, accessed October 23, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Hans Wanders: The Wonderful and frightening World of… In: Andreas Speit (Ed.): Aesthetic mobilization. Dark Wave, Neofolk and Industrial in the field of tension of right-wing ideologies. Unrast Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89771-804-9 , p. 23 to 64, here p. 34 .
  6. ↑ Steffen Könau: Sitte-Galerie Rejection for Nolte becomes a debate about artistic freedom. Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Goths Against Right Kassel: Orplid (Neofolk-Band by Uwe Nolte and Frank Machau). Goths Against Right Kassel, archived from the original on February 17, 2005 ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Jan Raabe, Andreas Speit: L'Art du mal . In: Andreas Speit (Ed.): Aesthetic mobilization. Dark Wave, Neofolk and Industrial in the field of tension of right-wing ideologies. Unrast Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89771-804-9 , p. 65–121, here p. 85 and p. 97 .