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Vox Vulgaris was formed at the end of the nineties by a group of teenagers from Stockholm learning to play medieval music on period instruments. They toured extensively for some years.
In 2003 they self-released the album “The Shape of Medieval Music to Come”. A few years later the band stopped playing. They thought that physical media were dead and the remaining CDs were destroyed, but thanks to the internet their music still survived and soon found an audience of millions.
The liner notes proudly (but erroneously) claimed the last track, featuring the now famous "Butt Music From Hell" to be the late musical debut of medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch, and expressed an ambition to interpret medieval music in a way that was neither “authentic” nor “modernized”, partly through improvisation. Furthermore, they lashed out at the common, romanticized image of the Middle Ages, instead wanting to "rummage in the outskirts of medieval society – among heretics, apostate monks, flagellants, and rebellious peasants.”
In 2019 Vox Vulgaris reunited and have set out to yet again complicate both medieval music and the Middle Ages. After doing several archival releases they teamed up with acclaimed producers Clea Herlöfsson and Daniel ”Fagge” Fagerström to record “Early Music for Late Humanity” in 2024. The sound is updated with buisines - long straight trumpets - and relies more heavily on polyrhythmic groove and psychedelic exploration.
(photo: David Morgenstern)
In 2003 they self-released the album “The Shape of Medieval Music to Come”. A few years later the band stopped playing. They thought that physical media were dead and the remaining CDs were destroyed, but thanks to the internet their music still survived and soon found an audience of millions.
The liner notes proudly (but erroneously) claimed the last track, featuring the now famous "Butt Music From Hell" to be the late musical debut of medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch, and expressed an ambition to interpret medieval music in a way that was neither “authentic” nor “modernized”, partly through improvisation. Furthermore, they lashed out at the common, romanticized image of the Middle Ages, instead wanting to "rummage in the outskirts of medieval society – among heretics, apostate monks, flagellants, and rebellious peasants.”
In 2019 Vox Vulgaris reunited and have set out to yet again complicate both medieval music and the Middle Ages. After doing several archival releases they teamed up with acclaimed producers Clea Herlöfsson and Daniel ”Fagge” Fagerström to record “Early Music for Late Humanity” in 2024. The sound is updated with buisines - long straight trumpets - and relies more heavily on polyrhythmic groove and psychedelic exploration.
(photo: David Morgenstern)
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