Mediaeval Babes - 'Rosario' (Official Video)

The official video for Mediæval Bæbes track Rosario, taken from their new album Prayers of the Rosary.
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Composition by Katharine Blake
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Video by diz_qo
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Recorded during the wilderness months of 2020 in the legend-enshrouded spiritual centre of Glastonbury, Prayers of the Rosary is Mediaeval Baebes’ tenth album, and the first to include only wholly original compositions.
The twelve tracks, composed by founding member Katharine Blake, set the Latin prayers of the Rosary to music in the plainsong tradition of early Christian liturgy. For this release, Katharine worked extensively with multi-instrumentalists Michael J York (The Utopia Strong, Coil, Teleplasmiste) and Charlie Cawood (Lost Crowns, Knifeworld, Anathema), who between them contributed to a diverse palette of exotic and unusual instrumentation-bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and tanpura can be heard alongside lyre, oud and Chinese pipa. Some songs convey a joyous rapture, their lilting or rising vocals set against a backdrop of pealing church bells. Others are subtly interwoven with the gossamer threads of the natural world, the web of life captured in field recordings at Glastonbury’s Chalice Well, Avebury’s stone circle and other sacred sites along the St Michael’s ley line. Yet others evoke the hushed mysteries of a hallowed inner sanctum - eerie, almost unsettling chants with eastern flourishes suggestive of ancient rites that predated and influenced the Rosary.
Although cloistered away from each other during the early months of the pandemic, the Mediaeval Baebes took no vows of silence in 2020. Each contributed vocals remotely via the internet (perhaps the technological, modern equivalents of ley lines) until in September they were able to record together in person at Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead.
The result of their faithful efforts is a mesmerising album that manages to be both reassuring and haunting, meditative and unsettling, tranquil and provocative. It is spiritual without being orthodox, respectful yet not reverential - an artwork suffused with powerful symbolism but transcending any weighty dogma.
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[@crystalhowley4259]

The Rosary is the weapon of our times!!! St Padre Pio Ora pro Nobis!

[@sm0kah0ntas]

I've been listening to guys since I was about 14. I am 28 now. I was so thrilled to see you are still active and creating music. My heart is full of nostalgia for a calmer time in my life that I miss dearly. Thank you for still creating music. I needed this so much.

[@docbailey3265]

Me too.

[@MakeWeirdMusic]

Wow what a video. I stared and the time flew by.

[@maksphoto78]

Time is just an illusion.

[@FloraDLady]

Oh goodness this is pure magic!

[@WelshIron]

Wonderful! The new album is amazing x

[@mrbenn1489]

A little bit of early Dead Can Dance. Which is no bad thing.💚

[@duanewirth273]

Gorgeous voices.

[@levilukeskytrekker]

Wow, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you.

[@Seeker898]

I love this.

[@hendrixknightsmith3212]

Excellent ladies ! xx

[@maksphoto78]

Well, this was amazing, and trippy. Anyone played Cyberpunk 2077?

[@baud4955]

Wonderful. 💖

[@oldvalvemic]

I hear and obey

[@NorfolkButtonBoyMetalDetecting]

Can’t wait to see you all soon in Norwich 👌🏻 would you allow me to use your music in my videos ?

[@mlsweetness5292]

Beautiful 😽😻

[@willagrant7403]

I would love to be able to see the lyrics.

[@maksphoto78]

No need to. Just listen to the etherial vocals.

[@arizu3989]

Is Audrey Evans here?!

[@veiledexposure]

sadly no

[@arizu3989]

@@veiledexposure Qué lástima 🙃😑..

[@professorasilvinhacferraz2016]

Wonderful!!! I like you!!!😉

[@marcoantoniomaganagonzalez5125]

Does anybody has the lyrics translation?

[@jersonsevilla]

Can't be traduce because these is the language Of the gods

[@crystalhowley4259]

@@jersonsevilla this is Latin the sacred language of The Roman Catholic Church! Deus Vult!!

[@jersonsevilla]

Can't be traduce because these is the language Of the gods

[@fantasticbeck3938]

the lyrics come from the prayers of the rosary, which would originally have been in Latin, which is very much translatable.

[@Paul_Lane]

Beautiful voices.