Breathless Spirit

by Völur & Cares

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Hearth 05:36
No lyrics but listen to Morton Feldman's string quartets and Mahler's 9th.
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No lyrics but listen to Seyed Khalil Alinejad and Spirit of Eden
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The grieving ocean The dying Rain The sun is buried at last The stars in pain The soil like iron Bitten by rust The snow will raze the trees Then turn to dust Voices will drown In Frozen air The eyes of your kinsmen Will not be there So thresh your dreams Upon the stone And feel this curse Fill up your bones Behold! The obelisk of blinding hail Adrift and circling Thy palace gate Thy fortress walls Risen from the brine And the bones of beasts Coiled in agony Wrapped in Diamond dread Pale skin casts back the sunless sky Above the dust and flame Scatter ash upon the black glass Cracking and folding upon itself I, the midwife of dread The plumed beast of the wretched Bring thee a frozen siege
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Cursed by marrow’s rot They twist and turn The thunder hangs and burrows Writhes among the weeping stone A cloud of spirit the fog of decay Call to the choir of ghastly dust Wave-serpents weave through bones and clay Thoracic sieve that will pierce the ground, become on with stone Waves shall break on sky aflame Barrow-bound in wind and rain Follow the sun back whence the shadows had come  Shine of stars and bones unbound On high seat he is found Follow…. Through Turf, mud and roof decayed Hand on hand, descend the braid Barrow dweller, strong of hand Lord of waves, chief of men Then he grasped my leaving foot Pulled me through ash and root Wrestled there in dust of bone All was dark before the throne Jokul’s gift I drew and thrust And the corpse-head fell to dust Carry away, back whence the shadows had come
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On Drangey 05:11
No lyrics
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Death in Solitude The Crawling night At cliffside screaming Beside the bloody sea These iron claws And death-bound mind The bitter winds cry Sanctum Of broken walls Dashed upon the jagged rocks Windbourne Sorcery Track a grave bound curse Trembling darkness The fortress of stone Echoes of mind Alone in madness The roof-rider Who strangled my kin Below I join him And his hate From beyond the grave Blinded by moonlight Now buried at sea The corpse-fighter Abandoned and shamed No returning Of the burning dawn Blinded by moonlight and bled dry To die alone Beneath the moon Beneath the sun To die alone Beneath the moon

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After 5 years, Völur returns with a new album. Breathless Spirit is the fourth entry in Völur's ongoing series "die Sprachen der Vögel" (the languages of birds) which features collaborations with local and international artists.

We have joined up with Cares, Peterborough based experimental electronic musician James Beardmore.

While nominally based on the 12th century Icelandic Grettir''s Saga, the album pulls from a variety of influences: Kurdish music, free improvisation, death metal, Gustav Mahler, just to name a few.

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released August 8, 2025

Völur/Cares
Die Sprachen der Vögel IV
Breathless Spirit

1. Hearth
2. Windbourne Sorcery I
3. Windbourne Sorcery I
4. Breathless Spirit
5. On Drangey
6. Death in Solitude

Völur is

Laura C. Bates - violin, electric violin, viola, cymbals, and vocals
Lucas Gadke - electric bass, double bass, harmonium, keyboards, tanbur, clarinet, bass clarinet, and vocals
Justin Ruppel - drums, and percussion

Cares is

James Beardmore - Synthesizers, keyboards, and production

Produced by Völur & James Beardmore

Recorded between February 2020 and September 2023 at Bilskirnir Studios and The Bates Motel by Völur
And at Marmaduke Studios in Toronto, Ontario by Ruben Huizenga

Mixed by Chris Snow at Halo Studio
Mastered by Reuben Ghose at Mojito Mastering

All music written by Völur and Cares
Lyrics by Lucas Gadke and Laura C. Bates

Breathless Spirit stone cut print by Saimaiyu Akesuk with permission of Dorset Fine Arts
Layout and design by
Photograph by Rae Chatten (Trinity St. Paul’s Church 10/22/23)

Additional musicians:
Zoë Santos - viola on hearth
Amy Bowles - vocals on Winbourne Sorcery II

Layout and design by Chimere Noire


Thank you to: Brad Van der Zanden, Ben Umanov, Ruben Huizenga, Amy Bowles, Nina Wodzinska, Chelsea Shanoff, Reza Houshvar and family, The Three Daves, Marg, Gloria and Suzanne, Katie Whitaker, Blood Ceremony, Mama’s Broke, Cuban Pete, all the bands we’ve shared the stage with, 1476, Steve Colca & Destroyer of Light, Vanishing Kids, Rae Chatten, Al Park, Dominic Costa, Carl Antonowicz. Empress Effects. Vector Violins. Taco, Tully, and Harlow.

Die Sprachen der Vögel (the languages of birds) is an ongoing series of EPs and albums showcasing Völur’s collaboration with local and international artists.

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Völur Toronto, Ontario

Drawing from folk melodies, heathen spirituality and trance-inducing doom, Völur weave a hypnotic web of chthonic noise on the yawning gap of silence. A deep sound that moves through melodies, riffs and timbres slowly as a seeress chants rites for souls long past. Would you know more?

Lucas Gadke - Bass and voice
Laura C. Bates - Violin and voice
Justin Ruppel - Drums and percussion
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