Just came across this gig featuring Enslaved (in its most progressive form) and Shining (with its lovely black jazz sound). Sit down, close your eyes and get ready for the Armageddon Concerto...
According to the YouTube description: In October 2007 Shining toured Europe as support for the progressive
black metal band Enslaved. The concerts usually ended with the two bands
doing a cover version of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man.
After seeing a video of one of these covers, the programme committee of
Moldejazz commissioned the two bands to write and perform a 90-minute
work together.
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| Source: Enslaved FB page |
The resulting work Nine Nights in Nothingness --
Glimpses of Downfall, often referred to as The Armageddon Concerto, was
first performed at Moldejazz 19 July 2008. The concerto consists of nine
movements, five of which were composed by Jørgen Munkeby and four by
Ivar Bjørnson of Enslaved.
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| Source: Enslaved FB page |
Inspired by Norse mythology, doomsday
cults and science fiction, the music describes the end of the world, a
following post-apocalyptic environment and finally a new beginning.
Musically the different movements draw inspiration form a wide range of
sources, most notably György Ligeti Olivier Messiaen, and John Coltrane,
but also Sunn O))) and The Beatles.
See you readers, xxx
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