Cryoshell Goes Acoustic

[Hapori Tohu]

Straight from the Faber Files we've got some news that will likely be of interest to Bionicle fans. As <a href='http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/2014/02/live-news-from-cryoshell.html' target='offsite'>he posted</a> about in his blog, Christian Faber recently assisted at an acoustic recording session for Cryoshell, the band behind Bionicle songs such as Creeping In My Soul and Closer to the Truth. You can read on to watch a sneak peek, or check out the video <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe4WOTqrvfk' target='offsite'>here</a>!

 

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[JAG18]

I normally try and listen to the words of songs, because I like music with deep lyrics. I tried doing that here, and about half-way through something SPIRIT once wrote come to mind, "Either Cryoshell's songs are very metaphorical or English isn't their songwriter's first language."

 

Still, Christine Lorentzen's voice is still amazing and I liked the song. I was however, unaware that Christian Faber could play the piano.

[Aanchir]

This song is beautiful and really shows that Cryoshell's work is just as powerful even without ties to a beloved toy franchise. Their music lent such power and emotion to the BIONICLE ad campaigns back in 2006-2009.

 

Though of course, looking back at how excited BIONICLE fans were about an obscure Danish band that produced music for those ad campaigns back then, and how beloved Cryoshell is to the BIONICLE fanbase to this day, I can't help but wonder once again why there aren't more LEGO and BIONICLE fans creating music inspired by those brands. My brony playlist on iTunes recently surpassed 100 fan-created songs, and I'm very excited to continue adding more to that playlist. My LEGO music, on the other hand, is limited to soundtracks from official media and songs created for LEGO ad campaigns. It's been nearly a year since I was first exposed to brony music at Cloudsdale Congress, and I still feel extremely happy when I recall all the impromptu sing-alongs in the convention center lobby and all the excitement at the rock concert that was connected with that event. LEGO conventions like Brickfair are missing that musical energy almost entirely — at best we'll have a small speaker at the BIONICLE table, belting either official BIONICLE music or music not expressly related to BIONICLE at all.

[Lyichir]

I normally try and listen to the words of songs, because I like music with deep lyrics. I tried doing that here, and about half-way through something SPIRIT once wrote come to mind, "Either Cryoshell's songs are very metaphorical or English isn't their songwriter's first language."

 

Still, Christine Lorentzen's voice is still amazing and I liked the song. I was however, unaware that Christian Faber could play the piano.

 

I do agree that the lyrics to Cryoshell's music don't always make a lot of sense on their face, but I tend to interpret them more as poetry than as prose. They evoke a feeling with their word choice, similarly to the works of great poets like e e cummings. I appreciate musical ability more than deep lyrics, as evidenced by my choice in music—my favorite artist, Mike Oldfield, only has a few lyrical works and the lyrics of those are often abysmal even by the standards of the '70s and '80s, but most of his music including some of those with lyrics is deep and experimental and awe-inspiring. Comparatively, my little brother listens to a lot of metalcore bands, and while I can tell by listening to them that they have a lot of emotion and something to say, I can't appreciate it much at all let alone understand half of it when it's conveyed via cursing and bellowing.

 

This song was the last one on their self-titled album and immediately left me wanting more. That album demonstrated that they had a great deal more artistic range than just what they had demonstrated in their work on Bionicle. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us this year!

[JAG18]

 

I normally try and listen to the words of songs, because I like music with deep lyrics. I tried doing that here, and about half-way through something SPIRIT once wrote come to mind, "Either Cryoshell's songs are very metaphorical or English isn't their songwriter's first language."

 

Still, Christine Lorentzen's voice is still amazing and I liked the song. I was however, unaware that Christian Faber could play the piano.

 

I do agree that the lyrics to Cryoshell's music don't always make a lot of sense on their face, but I tend to interpret them more as poetry than as prose. They evoke a feeling with their word choice, similarly to the works of great poets like e e cummings. I appreciate musical ability more than deep lyrics, as evidenced by my choice in music—my favorite artist, Mike Oldfield, only has a few lyrical works and the lyrics of those are often abysmal even by the standards of the '70s and '80s, but most of his music including some of those with lyrics is deep and experimental and awe-inspiring. Comparatively, my little brother listens to a lot of metalcore bands, and while I can tell by listening to them that they have a lot of emotion and something to say, I can't appreciate it much at all let alone understand half of it when it's conveyed via cursing and bellowing.

I agree with your sentiment that music is suppose to evoke feeling and that word choice is important in creating that effect. I wasn't trying to say that lack of lyrical comprehensiveness is a weak point of Cryoshell, as so much as I was trying to say that I personally didn't understand the lyrics (although I can say that about a lot of songs) and that that effected my thoughts on the song.

[Fivrik Toa of Building]

My question is why we get bands like Of Monsters & Men on the radio, but not Cryoshell. Maybe if someone requested one of the songs that would change.

- Fivrik