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  In December 1989 two musicians stood on stage under the name Corvus Corax for the first time, the first medieval band since the downfall of the wall. "Ante Casu Peccati" was released & the duo quickly became a quintet causing much excitement everywhere. In 1991, "Congregation" was put out & Corvus Corax produced the first medieval festival in Berlin Spandau (they later produced over 25 of these festivals). Corvus Corax's music is based on melodies, which were only occasionally written down, and worked on them. Studying the lives of minstrels and living it up themselves, they reconstructed old instruments in their own workshop and the constantly growing fan-community and the press raised the band to the "Kings of Minstrels" in 1994. As the minstrels of old would take up melodies and rhythms on their journeys through the medieval world and merge it with their musical experience into new music of their time, Corvus Corax also let their own musical experiences - modern music, included - flow in the old music. A link between legends and the music of Corvus Corax was afforded when the band met with Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco, decendant of the legendary prince Vlad Tepes, who Bram Stoker based his story of Prince Dracula on. Prince Kretzulesco implores in a song of the recent Corvus-Corax-Album in old-Romanian language: What I have been, you are now - what I am, you will be - a thousands of years are gone - and the choir repeats: Mille Anni Passi sunt... 1999 was Corvus Corax's 10 year anniversary as a band. They now have five bagpipe-players and three drummers on stage. Their newest release, in 1999 was "Tempi Antiqii". -Mikki 3/02 More at: |
