B_Van wrote:
I can't help myself from laughing, every time I hear the term (genre) Krautrock! 

 black321 wrote:
Same here.  It grew on me, so I gave it an EIGHT.  Thanx RP! 

Nice! However, it sounds very electro , not so much medieval.

Very interesting song… not sure yet how I rate it !?

More Medieval  meets electro-Krautrock, please!

it was going pretty good until the singing started

Shall I give them a banana for the electro or for the medieval? Let's make for both. 

And this, dear community, is why we listen to RP. Not for the hits, but for opening the mind.

This got played for the second time in the past 30 days, and by some stroke of luck I tuned in at the beginning to let it wash over me.  With that kind of luck I'm thinking I should rush out and buy a lottery ticket!  Sehr schön, sehr schön, vielen dank WG!

As requested by LizK, the transladion of the Lyrics from the Song "Selig" from the Band Helium Vola with the help of DeepL:

Blessed, blessed be the joy,
praised be the joyous May season,
praised be the singing of the birds,
praise be to the meadow, praise be to the forest!
You can see all kinds of flowers sprouting
from the green grass,
more than I can imagine.
Let the boys dance and jump in competition.

Blessed, blessed be the joy,
praised be the joyous May season,
praised be the singing of the birds,
praise be to the meadow, praise be to the forest!

Blessed are you, blessed are you, beauty of a woman!
Bless you, you shall be praised forever!
Bless you, you can end the pain,
when somewhere courtly love has wounded a longing heart.
Your rose-colored mouth,
if it would smile lovingly,
as the rose blossoms in the dew:
The same joy the gleam of your bright eyes can give.

Blessed, praised be the joy...

Mistress, mistress, praised mistress,
Dearest of hearts, you are dear to me of all women:
I have had little use of it:
Therefore I will sing of it no more.
It seems like a game to you.
You are very weary of me,
therefore I find myself in pain.
Joy and the sight of you are locked away from me.

Blessed, praised be the joy...

Woe, woe to the courtly love!
Woe is what I want to shout over her again and again.
Until now I was bound by her,
now she lets me free in a painful way.
She has acted badly towards me.
She shall wound someone else's
heart, feelings and mind.
I realized exactly that she hurts so much.

Blessed, praised be the joy...

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Almost. The lyrics are not from Hildegard von Bingen but from Gottfried von Neifen who lived about 100 years later.

Love this. That selig bit is very catchy. Pulls off the pretty acrobatic feat of harmonising the tonal world of a telephone call-waiting signal with something I'd expect from Hildegard von Bingen. 

Sorry, cannot help but get _Sommerland_ flashbacks each time I hear this, even though the film does not speak any German.

simply love this one. Thanks for bringing this to my ears and soul. 

 TLynneHenry wrote:


"Medieval-electronic" - ummm.

They had me at "electro-medieval." Flashing back to the Gregorian chant remixes in the early 90s.

now that was 'something completely different' ...I'll say "interesting but not ready to rate"

A song about an old base ball commissioner Nice

Only on RP.  Intriguing song, Never heard anything like it.  

A bit too much repetition and length, plus with autotune the repetition is precisely the same.  Altogether a fatiguing listen for me.

Redolent with echoes from Jesus Christ Superstar in several places . . .  "Judas' Death," I think?  

Not a criticism; just where my mind went as I sit here working -- and that soundtrack would be something to hear from on RP!  Lots of great stuff there, and hopefully would not be seen [heard] as promoting a particular religious view.  

(FWIW, personally I view it -- the entire biblical story -- as another branch of mythology, with some good lessons here and there; and the rock opera itself as a great, great story.  Thank you, Tim Rice and ALW!)

Damn good! You heard it here first!

Any German speakers care to post a translation?


All  I can tell  you is that she's using the nouns for loved ones, children or dogs.

Sprightly, cheerful, the lyrics in translation are wonderful. an 8.

There was a very interesting British band called Gryphon who played mediaeval music in a modern idiom.

 whatsupdude wrote:

I thought it was too! I was listening to it like, why can I half understand this... 

 sunybuny wrote:


Sorry, but I don't understand what Gottfried von Neifen and his contemporaries were talking round here 600 years ago.

But - by the way - such trip deep down memory lane always reminds me of the space of time atomic waste has to be kept safe: ONE. MILLION. YEARS. Good luck!

Execellent nothing more to say... 😀😃😄😁

 mcvh wrote:

Hey Marc, Du hast sowas von recht! Ich höre RP seit mindestens 15 Jahren tagein tagaus, überall und immer und zahle per regelmäßiger Abbuchung. SENSATIONELLE ARBEIT von Bill & Rebecca! 

that was stunning.

Pure eargasm awesomeness!

Amazing.  After I first heard this on RP a few months ago I went through the whole catalog of this band. Thanks RP!    PS: Shows that German can be a "lyrical" language, not just guttural cartoon Nazi talk.

 sunybuny wrote:

Just scroll down. There is a translation. And current German speakers may have a hard time translating since the language is Middle High German.

 whatsupdude wrote:

But it is Middle High German

Any German speakers care to post a translation?

Pretty neat stuff. Love it!

Looks like "Schwiizerdüütsch"

too many notes

Sell it to your Mom?

This is cool. Love the mix of operatic sound and pop.

Great singing.

I have never in 10± years written a comment here on RP,  but this has gotten me to grab my keyboard to say thanks Bill and Rebecca!

RP is the ONLY radiostation that has a satisfying catalouge of music. Bar none!

Thank you sooo much!

Not because I particularily like this song but because you appreciate it enough to be played and thus broaden my horizon once more...

Forgive me my grammar and other mistakes I may have made.

Marc, Hamburg, Germany

Electro medieval music. Wao. I keep broadening my musical horizon. Bill , thank you so much for this and many other off the beaten path music you choose.

Well this is an antithetical follow-up to Smells Like Teen Spirit...

And I love that they can coexist in this space! Great job BillG

This is nuts! So good. So weird.

Where else can you casually hear a song in Middle High German?
That's why I love RP.

So I bought this CD... imported it from Germany.
It gets more beautiful every time I hear it.

Interesting...I'd like to hear more!