SID — Volüspá

Völuspá is the second full length record from the Swiss experimental Jazz (if you could even call their unique sound that) trio known as Síd. To dub this an epic recording would be an understatement. The piece is an enchanted, multilayered sonic hybrid based on a 60 stanza poem of the same name. Save for a  few edits and omissions, the poem was lifted directly from Prose Edda  (a 13th century collection of Icelandic myths and poems) almost in its entirety, and sung in the original language. The tale covers the creation of the world and the cataclysmic war incited by power hungry giants which leads to its destruction and subsequent rebirth.