Oh, yes. Bagpipes, again. Best way to start off the day.
Corvus Corax was formed in what was then the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1989. The band researches and recreates Mediaeval music of the people. While Corvus Corax maintains the effort to remain as close to authentic Mediaeval music as is possible with so little secular information available, some of their members have taken the Mediaeval bagpipes and combined them with heavy metal creating the band Tanswut as a side project. In 2005 and 2008, Corvus Corax undertook their most ambitious projects to date - Cantus Buranus and Cantus Buranus II - creating an epic opera that combines a symphonic orchestra, choir, their signature bagpipes and full theatrical experience with lyrics taken from the Carmina Burana manuscript discovered in 1803 but believed to have written around 1230.
Suam Elle Ires by Corvus Corax from the 2007 album "The Best of Corvus Corax"
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