"Tis the season for some bardcore music, and who better to deliver it than Hildegard von Blingin', with her version of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black." Timely, as Keith Richards' 80th (!) birthday is on the 18th. (The artist's name is an homage to Middle Ages composer and polymath Hildegard von Bingen, btw.) Hope you enjoy.
On this day in 1179, Hildegard von Bingen died at the very ripe age of 81. A polymath whose interests spanned theology, music, science and medicine, she is perhaps best known as a composer/lyricist of sacred monophony; some believe she's the first composer whose biography is known to us in modern times. In recent years, interest in her and in medieval music in general has spawned the "bardcore" musical genre, in which popular songs are covered in a "medieval" style. Paying homage to the original Hildegard is "Hildegard von Blingin'", whose adaptations we've featured before. Here she is singing an original von Bingen composition, "O virtus sapientiae" as well as her bardcore version of Weeknd's "Save Your Tears." Hope you enjoy.
You’ve likely heard acoustic versions of your favorite tunes, but have you ever heard cover songs remixed to sound as if they’re from a completely different era? Singer Hildegard von Blingin’ transforms well-known hits—such as Creep, Bad Romance, and What Is Love—into medieval-style ballads. She describes the genre as, “Bardcore for the discerning clergyman, noble, or muck-gathering peasant.”To hear this beautiful voice and her era- appropriate lyrics and musical accompaniment is to be both charmed and amused.
The name Hildegard von Blingin’ is a playful take on the 12th-century abbess and composer Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Demonstrating a similar flair for poetic language, Von Blingin’ reworks the lyrics of classic pop songs into olde English verses...
