The Industrial Twilight: Romowe Rikoito

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Romowe Rikoito - "Undēina" [2014]

Artist: Romowe Rikoito

Title: Undēina

Genre: Neofolk

Country: East Prussia

Release date: 2014

Track List:

Bewangiskas pintegas pagaūsenis
Rantawa
Kunnegsgarbs
Swentagrēiwa
Twānksta town
Āustrawīdja
Merūnas dwars
Merūnas meddjan
Skaītan
Dēinawas deināina
Undēinas dajā
Bewangiskas pintegas wangā

After almost a decade of silence, Romowe Rikoito have released a new full-length album in 2014.With one exception of "Twānksta town", all the lyrics on "Undēina" are in Old Prussian language (or, more precisely, in its reconstructed version - since there isn't much known about the original Prussian language, which went extinct around 300 years ago). Only a couple of songs on their previous albums used this language.

The concept of "Undēina" might be quite hard to get into for those listeners who are, like me, not too familiar with the history and mythology of the Baltic region - and not only because of the language barrier. Some info in English can be found here, hopefully it'll be helpful. As for the music, it's excellent and definitely better than what I've heard on earlier RR albums. "Undēina" is a quite lengthy release, but that's not a flaw at all.

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

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