Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion is the third full-length album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 folk metal

Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...

 band Eluveitie

Eluveitie

Eluveitie is a folk metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland. The band formed in 2002 and their first EP, Vên came out in 2003. The band then released a full-length album, Spirit in June 2006. In November 2007, Eluveitie was signed by Nuclear Blast....

. It was released on April 17, 2009 through Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...

. Contrary to their previous works, this album is almost entirely acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

. The vocals are primarily handled by hurdy gurdist Anna Murphy. The album cover represents Cernunnos

Cernunnos

Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the horned god of Celtic polytheism. The name itself is only attested once, on the 1st-century Pillar of the Boatmen, but depictions of a horned or antlered figure, often seated in a "lotus position" and often associated...

, a Celtic divinity of nature.

Sound

Speaking about the new record, vocalist Chrigel Glanzmann stated:

"As Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion is a concept album setting pure gaulish mythology into music, we also wanted the artwork to be in the same line. Kernunnos

Cernunnos

Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the horned god of Celtic polytheism. The name itself is only attested once, on the 1st-century Pillar of the Boatmen, but depictions of a horned or antlered figure, often seated in a "lotus position" and often associated...

 is one of the most important and central characters in celtic mythology, so we conceived a topical portrayal of that figure, representing the ancient mythological content of Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion, as well as its musical character."

Track listing

1. "Sacrapos - At First Glance" (feat. A.A. Nemtheanga
   Alan Averill
   Alan Averill is an Irish musician most notable for his vocal duties for the folk/black metal band Primordial. Averill joined Primordial in 1991, thus being a founding member of that band...
   
    on voice) - 2:01
2. "Brictom" - 4:22
3. "A Girls Oath" - 1:18
4. "The Arcane Dominion" (feat. Oli S. Tyr on long-necked lute) - 5:43
5. "Within the Grove" (feat. Fredy Schnyder on hammered dulcimer, Mina the Fiddler on 5-stringed viola) - 1:52
6. "The Cauldron of Renascence" - 2:05
7. "Nata" (feat. A.A. Nemtheanga on additional vocals) - 4:02
8. "Omnos" – 3:48
9. "Carnutian Forest" - 3:17
10. "Dessumiis Luge
    Chamalières Tablet
    The Chamalières Tablet, , is a lead tablet, six centimeters by four, that was discovered in 1971 in Chamalières, France, at the Source des Roches excavation. The text is written in the Gaulish language, with cursive Latin letters. It is one of the longest extant texts in Gaulish, giving it great...
    
    " - 3:28
11. "Gobanno" (feat. Sarah Wauquiez on zugerörgeli, Fredy Schnyder on hammered dulcimer, Mina the Fiddler on 5-stringed viola) - 3:15
12. "Voveso In Mori" - 4:09
13. "Memento" - 3:20
14. "Ne Regv Na" - 5:07
15. "Sacrapos - The Disparaging Last Gaze" - 2:43

Limited Edition bonus tracks

16. "Slania (Folk Medley)" - 1:53
17. "Omnos (early metal version)" - 3:49

DVD
"Live At Summer Breeze 2008" - 47:09

1. "Inis Mona"
2. "Grey Sublime Archon"
3. "Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom"
4. "Bloodstained Ground"
5. "Slania's Song"
6. "The Somber Lay"
7. "Your Gaulish War"
8. "AnDro"
9. "Tegernakô"

Credits

• Ivo Henzi – acoustic guitars
• Päde Kistler – tin and low whistles, Scottish highland pipe, redpipe
• Meri Tadic – fiddle, vocals
• Kay Brem – acoustic and fretless bass
• Chrigel Glanzmann
  Chrigel Glanzmann
  Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann is a vocalist in the folk metal band Eluveitie. He also plays mandola, whistles and bagpipes in Branâ Keternâ.-Equipment:*Throat/Shure SM58*Mandola *Tin & low whistles *Uilleann pipes*Gaita*Acoustic guitar...
  
   – tin and low whistles, mandola, mandolin, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, vocals
• Anna Murphy – hurdy gurdy, flute, lead vocals
• Sime Koch – acoustic guitars
• Merlin Sutter – drums, percussion

Guest musicians

• Freddy Schnyder - hammered dulcimer on "Within the Grove" and "Gobanno"
• Mina The Fiddler - 5-stringed viola on "Within the Grove" and "Gobanno"
• Oliver S. Tyr - longnecked lute on "The Arcane Dominion"
• Alan Nemtheanga
  Alan Averill
  Alan Averill is an Irish musician most notable for his vocal duties for the folk/black metal band Primordial. Averill joined Primordial in 1991, thus being a founding member of that band...
  
   - additional voice and vocals "Sacrapos- At First Glance" and "Nata"
• Sarah Wauquiez - zugerörgeli on "Gobanno"

Production

• Arranged by Eluveitie
• Engineered by Chrigel Glanzmann and Merlin Sutter
• Mixed in January 2009 at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland by Arto Tuunela of Major Label
  Major Label (band)
  Major Label is an alternative rock band from Helsinki, Finland.-Discography:* Promo 2002 * Looking For Someone / Sweet Volunteer * Down The Sunny Road EP * Hold Breath Between Lines EP...
  
  
• Mastered in January 2009 at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland by Mika Jussila
• Produced by Arto Tuunela and Eluveitie

The drums, guitars, bass, bagpipes

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...

, fiddle

Fiddle

The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

, hurdy-gurdy, flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

, percussion, and vocals were recorded in December 2008 at Devils Studio, Vaduz/Liechtenstein. These recordings were engineered by Merlin Sutter. The tin whistles, low whistles, mandola

Mandola

The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...

, mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

, bodhran

Bodhrán

The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...

, hammered dulcimer

Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board. Typically, the hammered dulcimer is set on a stand, at an angle, before the musician, who holds small mallet hammers in each hand to strike the strings...

, 5-stringed viola, zugerörgeli, and sound effects were recorded in December 2008 in Illnau Switzerland. These recordings were engineered by Chrigel Glanzmann.