Mother's Blood, Sister Songs : Episode 1 'Mother's Blood'
Broadcast on RTE Lyric fm Sunday December 29th 6pm-7pm.
Mother's Blood, Sister Songs is a two part radio and podcast documentary, the story of how the genetics of Iceland reveals its Irish motherhood, presented by Irish composer Linda Buckley and produced by Athena Media for RTE lyric fm.
In Epsiode 1 'Mother's Blood' Linda begins her journey at her parents dairy farm at the Old Head of Kinsale, sharing her own story of sound and music and how Iceland became part it of through music and how when she finally went there in 2014 to write music, she felt strangely at home.
That quest to uncover the connections between Ireland and Iceland starts a journey through time and history, from 9th Century Gaelic ireland during the Vikings to the genetics research of Dr. Kári Stefánsson in Reykjavik. Linda finds out about the female slaves taken by Norwegian Vikings to Iceland and becomes fascinated by one story in the Icelandic Sagas of Melkorka, a supposedly mute Irish slave, said to be the daughter of an Irish King. Is Melkorka real or imagined and where these Gaelic slaves the first mothers of Iceland?

The music heard in this episode includes:
Björk - Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu ( Icelandic folksong)
Linda Buckley - Fall Approaches * theme
Sigur rós - Ekki Múkk
Linda Buckley - Numarimur (vox Elizabeth Hilliard) * theme
Steindór Andersen - Haustið Na´lgast
Sigur rós - Sæglópur
Linda Buckley Hekla
Linda Buckley Fridur
Linda Buckley - Drowning Pool
Linda Buckley - Siúil A Rúin (traditional air)
Valgeir Sigurðsson - Ghosts (World Premiere 2013 performed by Crash Ensemble)
Daniel Bjarnason - Bow to String
Linda Buckley - Ó Iochtar Mara (vox Iarla Ó Lionaird)
Björk - Mother Heroic
Sigur rós - Kjartan sveinsson-sidasti baerinn
Sigur rós - óðin's raven magic - chapter 3
Muireann Níc Amhlaoibh - Slán le Máigh
Linda Buckley - Torann
Vox Feminae -Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu
Fields - Anna Thorvaldsdóttir
Heyr þú oss himnum á - Anna Thorvaldsdóttir
Sello Stína - Fold ( vox Steindór Andersen)
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Billy Mag Fhloinn - Port na bPúcaí
Guðrún Jóhanna Ólafsdóttir - Móðir mín í kví, kví I (icelandic folk song - lullaby)

You can find some of the music here in a Soundcloud playlist
soundcloud.com/athena-media/sets/mothersbloodsistersongs_music

For more go to www.mothersbloodsistersongs.com

Mother's Blood, Sister Songs: Episode 2 'Sister Songs'

Mother's Blood, Sister SongsBy Athena MediaJan 05, 2020