This is the 8th of 37 videos in a series in which I'll react to the songs of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. Sundays-Thursdays from March 17th through May 6th.
The instrument is a NØKKELHARPE - KEY HARP. A folk instrument used in Norway and Sweden the past hundreds of years. Gåte has been around since 1999 playing folk music as rock.
I love this song and performance, and I’m so glad we’re sending Gåte (gaw-teh) with this original song to Eurovision🤘 Your pronunciation was spot on👍 The intro is an old “kulokk”. A “kulokk” is how the women called/calls the cows home to be milked in the summer (often in the mountains) So the chorus is inspired by this “kulokk” The song itself is inspired by a norwegian medieval folklore/ballade. Ulveham means wolfskin English lyrics: [Sample: Vocalization; Marit Jensen Lillebuen] [Verse 1] “I was such a beautiful maiden My stepmother evil, my mother she died She turned me into a sword and a needle And sent me to the king's estate And the anger my stepmother felt the most That all the stately liked me best [Chorus: Vocalization] [Verse 2] Then she gave me skin like a grey wolf She cursed me to walk the forest alone And never will I bе whole and good Before I drink my brothеrs' blood [Chorus: Vocalization] [Outro: Vocalization, Storm] I thеn tore out her heart So her blood flowed free Then I got to drink my brothers' blood” Greetings from Norway🇳🇴
Thank you. I do have an obsession about other languages' pronounciations, so it's good to know I manage to get some of the nuances. Very interesting, albeit pretty haunting, lyrics. I guess a composition like this, and the genre it's part of, tend to also have way more diverse and expressive stories than your average love pop songs. Another reason to like this.
@@jeschinstad Da tar du nok feil! Introen er en gammel kulokk, og kulokk brukes fremdeles, jeg bruker det selv for å lokke på kuene mine👍 Marit Jensen Lillebuen var en folkesanger (kveder) fra Nedre Lillebuen i Jondalen i Buskerud. Hun var spesielt kjent for sin tradisjonelle og særpregete form for kulokk med røtter langt tilbake i tiden, og som folkesanger var hun en stor inspirasjonskilde for mange.
The lyrics: I was such a beautiful maiden With an evil stepmother, my mother died She made me into a sword and a needle And sent me off to the King’s estate And the wrath my stepmother felt the most When the nicest liked me the best And then the chorus.. She gave me a skin, as grey as the wolf She cursed me to walk lonely in the woods Never will I be whole and well Until I get to drink my brother’s blood And the chorus again And this is what the guy is growling: So I ripped out her left side So her blood ran wild So I got to drink my brother’s blood Translating these lyrics isn’t the easiest, not even for me as a Norwegian. She sings in mostly Nynorsk and some of the words are very old, I actually had to Google the meaning of them.
The style of singing Gunhild is doing is called kulokk/a form of herd calling it has roots back to the Viking age probably longer. The text is a 1000 year old poem/song. Gåte sings in a mix of dialects and very old Norwegian And are amazing live
The rock part reminds me a bit of Evanescence «Bring me to life». Gåte was founded in 1999 and that was the style back then. Mixing it with old Norwegian folk music is unike though.
@@yairmohr But he was that «freaking Ukrainian Harry Potter». So obviously you don’t like him or/and his music? And I Evighet and Alvedansen deserving to win or do better, has no relation or conection to Rybak, do they? I do agree that Alvedansen deserved much better. It is one of my top ten ESC of all time. Elisabeth Andreassen got second place. Can’t be much better. It is a song that would not get into my top 100. I do respect different taste. But there is no need for name calling. That’s all.
What you meant was a hurdy-gurdy, but that is not the instrument you see in this video. This is a keyed fiddle, called Nyckelharpa in Swedish and Nøkkelharpe in Norwegian. However, the guy who plays this instrument (John Stenersen) also does play hurdy-gurdy, though not in this song. He joined the band just a few months ago after the vocalist's brother, who played violin and keyboards, decided to leave the band. Gåte are a Folk Rock band and already started 25 years ago when their vocalist was just 14 years old, but there's been a hiatus for about 12 years from 2005 until 2017 (except for a few concerts in 2009 and 2010). Gåte are my favourite non-metal band and this is the first time ever one of my overall favourite bands participates in the ESC. Since you liked this song, I also recommend to check out the original full-length version of this song (it's about twice as long) as well as the live-clips and music-videos you find on Gåte's official youtube-channel. And also check out the albums "Røtter" and "Lagnadsoger" by the Norwegian female-fronted Folk Metal/Rock band Bergtatt, which are the band of Gåte's keyed fiddle/hurdy-gurdy player John Stenersen.
Thank you for the lengthy reply and all this info. I did correct myself in the subtitles, and I knew it was NOT a hurdy-gurdy. But since I didn't know the specific instrument, I named the closest one I could think of. I'll try checking everything out, of course - I love listening to the unshortened versions of Eurovision songs, and to bands like this in general (the folk-metal field was a fascinatin for me when I first bumped into it about 15 years ago).
@@yairmohr In this context, I also recommend to check out this videoclip of a concert Bergtatt played in Budapest 8 years ago: ua-cam.com/video/rrcHo3jdcU8/v-deo.html It looks like it was professionally recorded. In this concert, they also played two songs which haven't been released on an album yet, one of them being a cover version of "Varulven" ("The Werewolf"), which I first heard on the album "Guds Spelemän" by the Swedish Folk Rock band Garmarna who started in the early nineties and inspired both Gåte and Bergtatt. Fun fact: the title track of Garmarna's 3rd album "Vedergällningen" (1999) tells the same story as Gåte's song "Ulveham", the main difference being that the main character who is eventually turned into a wolf by the evil stepmother is a boy in the Swedish version, on which Garmarna's song is based, whereas it's a girl in the Norwegian medieval ballad "Møy i ulveham", on which Gåte's song is based. If you like Gåte, you might also like Garmarna, so give them a try as well!
What a wonderful reaction that was 😊👍. Thanks for giving your viewers s good time watching. As you seem to really be enjoying thus performance, I would recommend that you even listen to the full version of this song. The song was first made almost twice as long before it was reduced in length to fit the format of rhis competition of three minutes. About midway there's a quite nice transition which the ESC version lack. Enjoy 😉🎶 ua-cam.com/video/y-qmfItbKqI/v-deo.htmlsi=1fzebn9wmlrxh5an
The instrument is a NØKKELHARPE - KEY HARP. A folk instrument used in Norway and Sweden the past hundreds of years. Gåte has been around since 1999 playing folk music as rock.
right you are ^^
I love this song and performance, and I’m so glad we’re sending Gåte (gaw-teh) with this original song to Eurovision🤘
Your pronunciation was spot on👍
The intro is an old “kulokk”.
A “kulokk” is how the women called/calls the cows home to be milked in the summer (often in the mountains)
So the chorus is inspired by this “kulokk”
The song itself is inspired by a norwegian medieval folklore/ballade.
Ulveham means wolfskin
English lyrics:
[Sample: Vocalization; Marit Jensen Lillebuen]
[Verse 1]
“I was such a beautiful maiden
My stepmother evil, my mother she died
She turned me into a sword and a needle
And sent me to the king's estate
And the anger my stepmother felt the most
That all the stately liked me best
[Chorus: Vocalization]
[Verse 2]
Then she gave me skin like a grey wolf
She cursed me to walk the forest alone
And never will I bе whole and good
Before I drink my brothеrs' blood
[Chorus: Vocalization]
[Outro: Vocalization, Storm]
I thеn tore out her heart
So her blood flowed free
Then I got to drink my brothers' blood”
Greetings from Norway🇳🇴
Thank you.
I do have an obsession about other languages' pronounciations, so it's good to know I manage to get some of the nuances.
Very interesting, albeit pretty haunting, lyrics. I guess a composition like this, and the genre it's part of, tend to also have way more diverse and expressive stories than your average love pop songs. Another reason to like this.
No, it's a kauk; almost the same as a lokk, but used to communicate to other people rather than calling animals home.
@@jeschinstad
Da tar du nok feil!
Introen er en gammel kulokk, og kulokk brukes fremdeles, jeg bruker det selv for å lokke på kuene mine👍
Marit Jensen Lillebuen var en folkesanger (kveder) fra Nedre Lillebuen i Jondalen i Buskerud. Hun var spesielt kjent for sin tradisjonelle og særpregete form for kulokk med røtter langt tilbake i tiden, og som folkesanger var hun en stor inspirasjonskilde for mange.
5:06 I would suggest the term "she let her voice crack in the end"... 😊
After all - this is Folk and RocknRoll - it's part of the game 😊
Good point.
The lyrics:
I was such a beautiful maiden
With an evil stepmother, my mother died
She made me into a sword and a needle
And sent me off to the King’s estate
And the wrath my stepmother felt the most
When the nicest liked me the best
And then the chorus..
She gave me a skin, as grey as the wolf
She cursed me to walk lonely in the woods
Never will I be whole and well
Until I get to drink my brother’s blood
And the chorus again
And this is what the guy is growling:
So I ripped out her left side
So her blood ran wild
So I got to drink my brother’s blood
Translating these lyrics isn’t the easiest, not even for me as a Norwegian. She sings in mostly Nynorsk and some of the words are very old, I actually had to Google the meaning of them.
Alvedansen is my favourite Eurovision song of all time 😍😍😍 love I Evighet and Nocturne so much too! And Ulveham is up there for me too!
You're obviously a person of impeccable taste 😂
@@yairmohr I do think so myself 😙
The style of singing Gunhild is doing is called kulokk/a form of herd calling it has roots back to the Viking age probably longer.
The text is a 1000 year old poem/song.
Gåte sings in a mix of dialects and very old Norwegian
And are amazing live
The hurdy gurdy that's being used by Eluveitie has a rotating wheel while the nordic nøkkelharpe uses a bow. The hurdy gurdy also has drone strings.
The rock part reminds me a bit of Evanescence «Bring me to life». Gåte was founded in 1999 and that was the style back then. Mixing it with old Norwegian folk music is unike though.
1:01 Alexander Rybak is Norwegian. His family moved (defected, actually) from Belarus (not Ukraine) to Norway when he was 4 yrs.
For some reason I'm my memory out was Ukraine. Thanks for that clarification.
@@yairmohrWhat was sad about sending him, then?
@@th5841 it's not sad that he was sent. It's sad he reached higher than other Norwegian songs that were way better.
@@yairmohr But he was that «freaking Ukrainian Harry Potter». So obviously you don’t like him or/and his music? And I Evighet and Alvedansen deserving to win or do better, has no relation or conection to Rybak, do they?
I do agree that Alvedansen deserved much better. It is one of my top ten ESC of all time. Elisabeth Andreassen got second place. Can’t be much better. It is a song that would not get into my top 100.
I do respect different taste. But there is no need for name calling. That’s all.
@@th5841If Chiara can call him Harry Potter, I can do it too... It's not personal, it's just something funny, that he kind of looks like him.
What you meant was a hurdy-gurdy, but that is not the instrument you see in this video. This is a keyed fiddle, called Nyckelharpa in Swedish and Nøkkelharpe in Norwegian. However, the guy who plays this instrument (John Stenersen) also does play hurdy-gurdy, though not in this song. He joined the band just a few months ago after the vocalist's brother, who played violin and keyboards, decided to leave the band. Gåte are a Folk Rock band and already started 25 years ago when their vocalist was just 14 years old, but there's been a hiatus for about 12 years from 2005 until 2017 (except for a few concerts in 2009 and 2010). Gåte are my favourite non-metal band and this is the first time ever one of my overall favourite bands participates in the ESC. Since you liked this song, I also recommend to check out the original full-length version of this song (it's about twice as long) as well as the live-clips and music-videos you find on Gåte's official youtube-channel. And also check out the albums "Røtter" and "Lagnadsoger" by the Norwegian female-fronted Folk Metal/Rock band Bergtatt, which are the band of Gåte's keyed fiddle/hurdy-gurdy player John Stenersen.
Thank you for the lengthy reply and all this info. I did correct myself in the subtitles, and I knew it was NOT a hurdy-gurdy. But since I didn't know the specific instrument, I named the closest one I could think of.
I'll try checking everything out, of course - I love listening to the unshortened versions of Eurovision songs, and to bands like this in general (the folk-metal field was a fascinatin for me when I first bumped into it about 15 years ago).
@@yairmohr In this context, I also recommend to check out this videoclip of a concert Bergtatt played in Budapest 8 years ago: ua-cam.com/video/rrcHo3jdcU8/v-deo.html It looks like it was professionally recorded. In this concert, they also played two songs which haven't been released on an album yet, one of them being a cover version of "Varulven" ("The Werewolf"), which I first heard on the album "Guds Spelemän" by the Swedish Folk Rock band Garmarna who started in the early nineties and inspired both Gåte and Bergtatt. Fun fact: the title track of Garmarna's 3rd album "Vedergällningen" (1999) tells the same story as Gåte's song "Ulveham", the main difference being that the main character who is eventually turned into a wolf by the evil stepmother is a boy in the Swedish version, on which Garmarna's song is based, whereas it's a girl in the Norwegian medieval ballad "Møy i ulveham", on which Gåte's song is based. If you like Gåte, you might also like Garmarna, so give them a try as well!
G Å T E ❤️🥇
12 points from me :)
🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴❤️❤️❤️ (Nøkkelharpe)
12 points 🇳🇴
What a wonderful reaction that was 😊👍. Thanks for giving your viewers s good time watching. As you seem to really be enjoying thus performance, I would recommend that you even listen to the full version of this song. The song was first made almost twice as long before it was reduced in length to fit the format of rhis competition of three minutes. About midway there's a quite nice transition which the ESC version lack. Enjoy 😉🎶
ua-cam.com/video/y-qmfItbKqI/v-deo.htmlsi=1fzebn9wmlrxh5an
Thank you for the compliments and the link.
Actually, I think the instrument is called the dunklybunkelybomdipipelypap. Also known as the hurdy gurdy.
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Did you notice the poisture she had when she sang "a little of"? 🤪
Try bending backwards like that and sing 😉
I sing "a little off" even without bending back like that 😋
@@yairmohr 🤣🎵🎶
can you react to a singer named Daniel Yativ? He's from Israel :)
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Thanks for the request, but I'm only reacting to Eurovision for now...
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