Reincarnatus

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Reincarnatus
Reincarnatus Live in Cologne 2009.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Medieval rock , pop
founding 2005
Website www.reincarnatus.com
Founding members
Renate Dirix
Joyce Hamers
Current occupation
Renate Dirix
Erwin Gielen
Isabelle Dosne
Singing, fiddle , violin
Linda Custers
Ruth Maassen
Hellen Hurkens
Singing, fiddle, nyckelharpa
Inge Stallinga-Gorissen
Guitar, Irish bouzouki
Eleën Bartholomeus
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Media Vita
  NL 62 07/05/2009 (2 weeks)

Reincarnatus is a Dutch medieval rock band from Valkenburg in Limburg .

history

The band was founded in 2005 by Renate Dirix and Joyce Hamers. Marna van der Velden, Linda Custers, Isabelle Dosne, Inge Stallinga-Gorissen, Hellen Hurkens and Eleën Bartholomeus later joined the band. Just a year after the band was founded, the band toured the Netherlands, and this tour was a success. In the same year the band brought out a Miti CD that was self-financed. Two years later the band released their debut album called Media Vita . Just a few weeks after its release, this landed on the 62nd place of the Dutch LP charts, where the album lasted for two weeks. In Germany , the band became known by participating in the Anderswelt tour of the Munich medieval rock band Schandmaul , which led through Austria , Switzerland , Germany and the Netherlands. In February 2009, the band signed a contract with the German label FAME Recordings, which also includes Schandmaul, The Seer , Anna Katharina Kränzlein and Weto . In addition, the band took part in the Wacken Open Air in Wacken for the first time in 2009 .

style

The band combines medieval and modern pop music . The band uses instruments such as shawm , fiddle , bouzouki , hurdy-gurdy , drums , electric guitars , bass and synthesizers . The texts are often sung with several voices and written either in Latin or in several medieval languages. Sometimes the texts are also written in English , German and Dutch .

Discography

  • 2006: Mini-CD (in-house production)
  • 2008: Media Vita (FAME Recordings)
  • 2010: DVD Media Vita Tour (in-house production)
  • 2012: New Life (in-house production)

Individual evidence

  1. Chart tracking on Hitparade.ch
  2. Charts at dutchcharts.nl

Web links

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