feature: emily ovenden

actually, emily ovenden had to cut her teeth on art. her father, graham ovenden is a well known british architekt, painter, photographer and writer, her mother annie ovenden is a figurative artist and member of the "brotherhood of ruralists" network. thinking of this background, you possibly may understand, that mrs. ovenden recently is a member of three outstanding bands. may be the most well kown of them is mediaeval baebes. founded in the 90's by miranda sex garden singer katharine blake, the band which recently consists of five young ladys, is looking back on five regular albums, moreover a live, best of... and christmas album. the cause of the band, as the name would suggest, is medieval music, the vocalists use about 10 (!) different languages and particulary reinstate this times instruments. in berlin record stores, you find the band in the independent section, as well they could have been led as a classical orchestra. somehow like rondo veneziano, but quite cooler. their recent album "mirabilis" was published in 2007. the meiaeval baebes, who also contributed the music for the british "elisabeth 1st" documentation, are touring germany in november 2007.

lady ovendens next project is the band celtic legend, which was founded by mastermind chris payne in 2001 to resurrect "ancient dark age legends". first appeared the album and dvd "tristan and isolde", as far as i know with a different singer. in 2007 celtic legend is back with the album "lyonesse", companied by "the boatman EP" and emily ovendens unique voice. by the way, the artwork for a limited edition box of this album was designed by emilys mother annie. her engagement for this both project certainly can not stop emily from bringing a third project on its way right now: the gothic metal band phytia, whos name goes back to the legend of the oracle in delphi. exept for emily, there are two musicians of the band descent playing in phytia. i would propose everybody who is interested in good mystic, celtic and medieval music to take a look at the several internet presentations of all the projects. i guess you will like it, dudes!

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