Bog Bodies by Laceface

It’s not metal. It’s iron age.

After years of frolicking, the strange, large and gentle pioneering cello whiz Laceface has extracted her own set of Bog Bodies from the mystical murk. Bog Bodies is a six track set of original genre crossing cello music inspired by the mysteries of the ancient remains and the persons who once lived in them during Iron Age Europe.

The title track ‘Bog Bodies‘ is inspired by the thrill of discovering the ancient human time capsule in pristine condition. What will the perfectly preserved skin and fingernails tell us? What did the person eat? How did they die? So many questions and will their answers ever be revealed?

Track two called ‘Lament for Huldrmose Woman’s Bow Arm‘ is dedicated to the Huldremose Woman, whose arm was either chopped off before she was killed or detached during her exhuming. No one quite knows for sure, but what is certain, Laceface is consumed with sadness for her severed limb. Huldremose Woman will never play cello.

Lindow Man is the subject of ‘Overkill Violence‘. The general consensus is that Lindow Man was a human sacrifice. He met a particularly brutal and overkill death by head trauma, garrotte, having his throat cut and final kicks in the back into the bog. Laceface plays a heavy merciless double stopped riff which builds the foreboding feeling. In one of her rare spoken moments, Laceface describes the ritual killing steps for Lindow Man. It’s a chilling monologue. Perhaps the gods required an extreme amount of violence to be satisfied. It’s hoped the final cello scream makes it so.

‘Reflect Regret Rejoice‘ follows on from Overkill Violence. While we will never truly know the attitudes of the ancient people, all signs point to the idea that they were just like us. They experienced emotions and complex social groups as we do. Sacrificing a person to the gods must have been difficult to reconcile, even if it meant a favourable harvest season. After mourning, perhaps the sharing of mead helped to deaden the pain of losing a life to please the gods. Laceface plays a theme and variations to reflect those sentiments in this chill melancholy track which ends in a rejoicing metal style bounce riff offset with natural harmonics.

‘Crypt of Peat‘ takes you to the cold clammy comfort of resting in pieces under layer upon layer of peat for over 2000 years. A haunting ghostly choir begins. Laceface plays a driving melodic riff intro which morphs into some avant garde squelching bow sounds conjuring imagery of an icy desolated burial resting place within a European peat bog. Crypt of Peat ends with the return of the original melodic motif in rich layers of unison.

Laceface has written another of her famously emotional melodies for final track ‘Peatrification In Perpetuum‘. Many of the Bog Bodies were placed with such care into the bog. The peat enveloped them and preserved them in a way that they almost seemed suspended in time. How many more are out there suspended in perfect preservation waiting to be discovered as a peatrified time capsule?

Laceface makes original experimental multigenre cello music. A fan of fish, frolicking and bogs. Also scared of bogs...and people. 💛🐍🐟🌻

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