Australian artist producing romantic pop/ethereal faerie music. Lyrically, Louisa John-Krol explores fantastical and mythological themes--she uses the texture of fantasy much the same way that Rhodes uses science fiction imagery.
Internationally acclaimed, they challenge the boundaries of the underground scenes that cherish them and have even inspired a faerietale "Louisa" published in France.
Louisa John-Krol is on the French label Prikosnovenie.
Her songs of centaurs, birds, seagiants, dragons, psychopomps, sirens and salamanders combine fiery energy with ambience, whimsy and humanity."... and all that's printed in roots and long unruly stems she sings in a song ..."
Sonnets to Orpheus - RilkeDISCOGRAPHY
ARGOStyle: Folk-romantique
References: Loreena Mac Kennit
juin 2000 - 12 Titles -55'Argo refers to the legendary ship of the Argonauts. In our age of prescribed mysteries, journeying out of bureaucratised realms is an adventure, whether or not we return with the Golden Fleece. The album celebrates Renaissance alchemist Ficino, Sufis Idries Shah and Ibn Arabi, Sumerian goddess Inanna, authors Dunsany, Blake, Kipling, Walter de la Mare and Holderlin, Celtic faerietales and Greek mythology. Engineered/co-produced by Harry Williamson.ALEXANDRIAStyle: Folk-romantique
References: Loreena Mac Kennit
juin 2000 - 12 Titles -60'
Alexandria is a realm of dragons and centaurs. Invisible cities of Calvino and Cavafy come to life, with Louisa's own Madame Alchemier and Valley of Seven Keys. Other inspirations are Milton's "Lycidas", Dante's Limbo (Canto IV) where pagan souls dwell, 15th century music of Baixa dansa Barcelona, and novelists Ramon Perez de Ayala, Dostoyevsky, Max Frisch and Shiga Naoya. Engineered/co-produced by Harry Williamson.ARIEL
Style: Folk-romantic
References: Loreena Mac Kennit
june 2001 - 12 Titles - 45'Louisa grew up in native Australian bushland. She takes her inspiration in literature, mythology, poetry and Nature. She studied voice, guitar and piano; mandolin was self-taught. During the early nineties, she shared a groupe-house with artists including Dawn Perry, who introduced her to the music of her brother Brendan's duo (Dead-Can-Dance) On Ariel, mandoline, heavenly voices, percussions, flute, cello, string quartet, derbouka... lead us into romantic and dreamy worlds. A masterpiece in the field of romantic pop-ethereal fairy music.ALABASTER
Style: Folk-romantic
References: Loreena Mac Kennit, Enya,Kate Bush, Emilia Torrini..
May 2003 - 12 TitlesBewitching, romantic, ethereal pop: whimsy & energy reminiscent of Emilia Torrini, The Moors, Kate Bush. Fairy voice, mandolin, flute, percussion, table harp, charango, piano, lyre, bass, ocarina, clarinet. Luminosity with bursts of progressive rock, ghostly encounters, a tribute to the poet Emily dickinson, Hamlet's Ophelia, a renaissance ballad and dark ambience of Sirens. The mythical basis for this album (and its twin to come) is the union of Persephone and Hades: an embrace between life and death. Featuring the neo-classical band Daemonia Nymphe, Lys, Francesco Banchini (GoR/Ataraxia); ambience of Oophoi; and Olaf Parusel (Stoa).APPLE PENTACLE
References: Loreena Mc Kennit, Kate Bush
October 2005 : 12 tracksLouisa John-Krol is a fantastic artist, with a voice made of purest crystal,
and a fabulous storyteller.
Her new album "Apple Pentacle" leads us into a fairy world made of various stories flowing mostly from Green Man mythology. The Spirit of the Greenwood roves through the ages as Robin Hood, Egyptian Osiris, Arcadian Pan, Dionysus, Tolkien's Treebeard, Vishnu, Puck, Atho and other incarnations. With cinematic lyris and fairy soundscapes, Louisa's music is a subtle mix of modern production with ancestral themes and instruments (viola, mandolin, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord). The result is dreamy fairy pop music with a beautiful, heavenly voice.
Like Kate Bush, she explores the different feelings in her voice: sensual,
sweet, harsh or ethereal, as if her creatures embody her soul. Let's
enter her bewitching worlds.LOUISA JOHN KROL AND OOPHOI -I HEAR THE WATER DREAMINGStyle: Ambiant - zen - mystique
References: Loreena Mac Kennit, Enya, Sheila Chandra
2005 - 7 Titles -
Oophoi is famous for his intimist ambiant music, he is considered as a Master in his art. Louisa's voice brings a melodic and 'fairyesque' dimension to his music. The meeting of these 2 musicians results in a mysterious, ethereal and oniric ambience reminding Louisa's song "Approaching the island of Siren" on her last album Alabaster.
Louisa's voice is reminiscent of Sheila Chandra's sing (without the Indian mood). Bamboo flute, singing bowl, crystals, insects sounds, birds, mandolin, ocarina attract us in an aquatic world populate with Sirens, Sylphids and amniotic dreams.COMPILATIONS :
2004 : "Fairy World" Vol 1 - Prikosnovenie, France
2002 : Love sessions (collaboration)
2002 : "L'Odyssee" - Prikosnovenie, France
"Belladonne: a sampler of fairy voices", Prikosnovenie, FranceCOLLABORATIONS:
Australian collaborators & friends:
Faraway (Liz Van Dort & Harry Williamson); Brett Taylor; Richard Allison; Asphodel; Ashera; Ikon; Seventh Dawn; Andrew Persi; Jenni Heinrich; Bronwyn Lloyd; Circe's Tryx / Spiral Dance; Oscar & Marigold / Sefarad; Lindsay Buckland; Joe Dolce / Difficult Women; Soleluna; Mother Gong; Eden; Shinjuku Thief.
Overseas collaborators & friends:
Daemonia Nymphe & Nikodemos Triaridis; Gor; Lys; Caprice; Oophoi; Stoa; Mathias Grassow; Stella Maris / Dirk Schlömer & Carsten Agthe & Rüdiger Gleisberg; Keltia & Seventh Harmonic; Mandragore; Hungry Lucy & Aiboforcen; Arcana; Dirge; Ataraxia; Faire Enough; Nebelhexe (Hagalaz Runedance); Nehl; The Aleph; Alice Marie; Giorgos Christianakis; Splashdown & The Moors; Michael De Maria; Mirabilis & This Ascension.This page is the official mySpace account for Louisa John Krol, created out of love by Mary Vareli / Paradox Ethereal as Louisa is one of our most celebrated members. The site is maintained by Lousa herself after its creation. Click here to enter the site of www.paradoxethereal.comor view Paradox Ethereal myspace areaLayout made by SemiErotic at CreateBlog.com .
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