Name: Embercast Cider by Ardwyn Embercast
Duration: 3 min 35 s
Description: An original song to celebrate the award winning Embercast Cider for empire larp.

I’ve been hoping you’d record this!! The amusement of watching you push your luck to advertise at song and story was only topped by how lovely the song is!

This is what happens when you want a better recording of one of your old songs and your wife has amazing harmony ideas. Song is Wheel Keeps Turning, my Prosperity based song for Empire. Musically, this extra special edition takes a bit of a departure from the WM musical brief, so it is unlikely to be heard in the field in exactly the same way, but damned if I'm not happy how it came out. Big props to Emma (Malhann) for the sweet, sweet harmonies.

Wheel Keeps Turning (Extra Special Edition)

The first song Malhann took to Anvil! One for the fallen.

Emma Vieceli's Album

They call them heroes (Malhann)

Wonderlust

Walk On

This song I actually filked twice. This one was close to the original with an Empire twist, and there is another one about Songs and Stories. I feel this one works better though, so this goes up today.
I would love to use more Daoirí Farrell in my filks for the future, as he is a truelly amazing artist!

Boozing

A very silly Malhann track first played at Empire E2 2023. Joined by Tarik (Andrew Ruddick) on the guitar and extra vocal flavour. To the bards of Empire : you rock. To the patrons of the bards of Empire: you rock more. 

Pay your f****ing bard

Wrote this one bloody ages ago, but it made its proper Anvil debut at E3 2023 during the Virtue's Roar performance. The recording lacks a certain something compared to the live performance (such as another 15 bards all playing along).

This is another one that started off as an idea for a filk that I couldn't actually make work, but i liked some of the lyrics i had and so I just rewrote the music around it. 

The sharp eyed/eared may hear the ghost of the original inspiration in the lyrics of the second verse, especially if they are of a musical theatre persuasion. ;) 

My thanks to Emma for providing the epic backing vocals for this one (and for the gift of the portable studio device it was recorded on).

I still suspect that the scream at the end is too much, but it continues to make me smile and so I'll continue doing it in the field whenever I have the voice to belt it out. 

FUN FACT: The final vocals for this were recorded in my car after I drove to the middle of a building site with my porta-studio as I was too self conscious to the shouty-screamy vocals at home where the entire neighbourhood would hear.

What We Came For

An original song to celebrate the award winning Embercast Cider for empire larp.

Embercast Cider

New songs debuted at Empire LRP's E1 event, 2019

Word To The Wise (Wisdom)

It's late, your campfire crackling against the sounds of the woods, a full drinking horn in one hand, and a drum at your feet. Your maps are spread out before you as you plan your way through the trods, avoiding Vallorn, orcs, and monsters.

Trodwalker

Work in progress.  Lyrics may change.   Will probably re-record and re-mix bits. This is version 4.

Lyrics:

Intro
We run fast and we stride,
And we run fast and we hunt,
And we run fast and we strike,
And we run fast and they hit the ground.
(repeat)

Chorus
We run and we… STRIDE!
(repeat)

Verse 1
Navarri, Grey Pilgrims, the 
time is soon nearing to stride.

(For the) feel of the trods, grants us
Magical purpose and pride.

When we,
walk with our stridings, we,
Fulfill a driving need,
To see our destiny,
End the Vallorn.

(Each) Morning we rise, and we’re
Revitalised,
And headily cry to the sky...

Chorus

Verse 2
(As we) cross the whole Empire there’s,
so much to learn and to see.

(Like the) Tombs of Necropolis
Witness our shared history

Or maybe we’ll journey far,
Into the Northern dark,
Well beyond Volodmartz,
Through Otkodov 

We fear not The Mallum, nor
Kalsea’s Jotun, so
Muster your courage and pride!

Chorus

Verse 3 (extended)
When the Bayous of Therunin,
Urge us to go out and roam…

When the Gold groves of Miaren,
Wave us good luck on the road…

Let’s go to Medruga.
Tassato, Segura,
to Weirwater, Semmerholm,
to Bastion.

To Kahraman and Bregasland
and on to Temeschwar  
To Kallavesa, Miekarova,
Casinea.  Still we’re roving 

North from Hercynia ,
West from Liathaven,
East from Brocéliande.
We walk the trods,

Through… Feroz, Reikos, Sarvos, Karov
Astolat or down to Morrow,
Sermersuaq, Hahnmark, Anvil
Ossium and all The Barrens

Mitwold, Mournwold, Upwold, Spiral
Skarsind, Holberg, Zenith, Redoubt,
Karsk.

Chorus x2

Outro
We run fast and we stride,
And we run fast and we hunt,
And we run fast and we strike,
And we run fast and they hit the ground.
We run fast and we stride
We run… and stride...stride...stride…

Stride

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