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Fugli
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Out of 12 votes - Similar Artists: Counterfeit Bards, Howl-O, et al.
Out of 12 votes
- Location: Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States
- Genre: Folk » Minstrel
Biography
Fugli
I am a pseudo-medieval musician, scribe and artificer. When I travel through and play at medieval and renaissance faires, I usually use a stringed instrument, which I often pick with a quill. I use the same quills, trimmed of course, in my on site scribe work. The name "Fugli" then is my standard medieval faire name, derived from Old West Norse fugl, meaning "bird." When I deal with Roman reinactors, they call me Avis. In Gaelic, I'm Eun.
With layered levels of simple instruments, my sounds are often uniquely archaic. While some of my music is entirely original, many of my numbers are my personal arrangements of renaissance and medieval melodies from antiquity.
The difficulty of medieval music is that so much has been lost from the originals over time. Prior to the printing press, all bets are off. Often all we have are some words on some Renaissance broadside to which we can apply a meter. By matching meter to melody, melody to style, style to key, key to chords, and so forth... we can arrive at an approximation, but never truly know how a piece may have originally sounded. We can only guess at the intent of the original author.
By using traditional and even antique instruments with minimal recording effects, I attempt to breathe new life into the obscure and reclaim that which we discount as mundane, old, classical, or just plain dead.
These tracks on download.com are just a few that I have recorded, you can find more through my web site cataloged under "music."
I have a great deal of music recorded, several tracks which can he heard on my CDs "On the Woad" and "Il Est Ne."
May we meet at the faire!
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