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Genre: Alternative / Folk / Other
Location Munich, Please select your region., Ge
Profile Views: 751831
Last Login: 1/18/2012
Member Since 4/29/2006
Website www.faune.de
Record Label Screaming Banshee/Alive (EU), Dancing Ferret (USA)
Type of Label Indie
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FAUN combines ancient instruments with modern influences to create an enchanting and powerful atmosphere. The band's performances incorporates with up to three voices chant and employs many different instruments. For example: Celtic harp, nyckelharpa, various lyres, bagpipes, large Japanese taiko drums, cister, Pagan zither, flutes and even Arabic instruments like dombra, rebab, riq, oud, darabukka and bendir. Influences of Celtic folk, medieval music and Arabic rhythmic tones fusing with driving beats draws an ever fast growing crowd of followers.

The ensemble FAUN was founded in early 2002 in Munich and has performed at more than 600 locations, festivals, concert halls and churches throughout the world. To name a few: Mèra Luna Festival (Germany), Headlining the Faerieworld Festival Oregon USA & the Faeriecon Festival Maryland USA, Elf Fantasy Fair (Netherlands), Wave Gotik Treffen (Germany), Fiesta Celtica Biella (Italy), Folkwoods Folkfestival (Netherlands), Arena van Vletingen (Belgium), Locomotive (Paris/France), Savari Karn..Hungary), Palladius/Barcelona (Spain), and many more.
In 2010, FAUN will mostly be on tour with their main concert show, where they combine up to three layered vocals, a great variety of old/medieval instruments and modern influences like samples, beats and synthesizers, for an unseated (dancing) audience at rock & folk festivals, medieval & renaissance fairs and other concert venues.
They also tour with their Acoustic show with mostly medieval music at seated venues like churches and theaters.

Til today FAUN has released seven longplay CDs:
"Zaubersprüche" (Incantations) - 2002
"Licht" (Light) - 2004
"Renaissance" - 2005
"Totem" - 2007
"FAUN & the pagan folk festival - LIVE" - 2008
"FAUN ACOUSTIC - Buch der Balladen" (Book of ballads) - 2009
"Eden- 2011"

and two DVD's:
"Lichtbilder" (Light pictures) - 2004 (not available anymore)
"Ornament" - 2007

In cooperation with distributor Screaming Banshee / ALIVE (Germany) and the Label "NoirRecords" (USA) they have til today sold many thousand CDs worldwide.
The FAUN studio CD "TOTEM" hit rank no. 78 in the German (media control) album charts, rank no. 6 in the German alternative charts and rank no. 1 in the German medieval charts.
Their latest Acoustic CD "Buch der Balladen" achieved "CD of the month" in two of the biggest german Music Magazines (ZILLO Dec. '09 / ORKUS Dec. '09).

FAUN's official on-line shop:
English: www.mittgard.de/shop/menu/menu_f_index_e.html
Deutsch: www.mittgard.de/shop/menu/menu_f_index.html

FAUN's official homepage: www.faune.de
FAUN's official youtube: www.youtube.com/fauntube

Musicians

Oliver s. Tyr: capricorn / leo
vocals, irish bouzouki, mandocello, nyckelharpa, celtic harp, guitar & saz
foto by irritantje

Fiona Rüggeberg: aries / leo
vocals, bagpipes, recorders, whistles, chalumeaux, hammered dulcimer, seljefloit, piano, fujara & rebap
foto by fabian seebauer

Rüdiger Maul: sagittarius / leo
frame drum, darabukka, riq, duf, ganjira, dombak & many more percussion instruments

Niel Mitra: cancer / sagittarius
beats, synthesizers, samples and sound scapes
foto by irritantje

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