Vinland Tales by Exire

Spiritus Loci or the spirit of place may come to the living in a variety of ineffable forms. One feels it while paused in the midst of a natural landscape: a communion with a force or intellengence beyond comprehesion, but apparent to the senses. It is with "Vinland Tales" that Exire brings the myriad spirits of land to life through his timeless urfolk. We are invited to embark across water, air, land, and spirit itself to experience the unknown depths of where Exire calls home.

Alexander Pfister has evoked his greatest work to date across these 14 winding, evocative songs dedicated to his enigmatic relationship to specific aspects of the New World. With nearly an orchestra-worth of instruments ranging from familiar guitars, violins, and flutes to pre-modern tones of bouzouki, tagelharpa, lyre, oud, and more, the listener is positioned at the intersection of magical time and place - though hovering above it all in absolute unreality. It becomes easy to get lost in Exire's ability to weave a sonic whirlwind without word, allowing the inner plane of imagination to take over.

Just as the art of Thomas Cole that adorns much of Exire's work is capable of engrossing that part of the soul sensitive to the sublime, "Vinland Tales" is the musical equivalent of such sensory sensations. Furthermore, this joint working is additionally amplified by a troupe of fellow troubadores lending their musical voices to the atavistic conjuration, including Harul Vinay (Holy Mountain), Kevin Kryszak (Quetzalcoatl), Vicki Terpstra (Woods of Exile) and Mordian (Hawk's Teaching.)

Allow Pfister's mystical map to guide you to a realm of the familiar unknown, where the flora, fauna, and spirits that dwell there take on a new form entirely. The Tales are ready to be told, are you ready to hear them?

SMALL OFFERINGS aims to reignite the dark folk spirit still smoldering within hidden pockets of true believers. In a sorely lacking landscape of mundane music, we shall inject the sublime and profound back into the post-industrial underground. Elevate the spiritual, unite in burning passion, and leave Earthly concerns behind!