Rating: 8/10
Release: 21 December 2012
Label: Sound Age Productions

The Belarus formation Lutavierje has released their first full length album. The band released a split in 2010, but in 2012 it was time for the real thing. And here it is.
When I look at their line-up, I get a smile on my face immediately, bagpipes, flutes, zhaleika and violin. Yummy, I like those instruments a lot. Sound Age Production has a lot of nice bands in the whole range of folk- and paganmetal.
This is one of those albums, you can play at different volumes. I noticed this with a band like Fejd as well. When you play it al a lower volume it almost seems the guitars are backing up the folk music. When put up the volume, the music sounds a lot more metal-like.
I can appreciate this Give Yaryla! Is almost a folksong, with all these nice instruments, but the electric instruments make it a lot heavier. And the same goes for the rest of the songs as well.
They also use this nice female Slavic choir like singing, this makes it all very authentic.
A very nice composition is Spring in which the folk-instruments are oh so beautifully caressing my ears. Followed by the bagpipe-intro on the track Vyales. Much faster as Spring and with a very nice bagpipe in it. It should even be some louder in the mix, making it a Slavic equivalent of Folkstone.
In Oath we get this typical Slavic folk-melody, reminding of songs of Arkona and others. And again we get a nice folk-metalsong.

A very nice album for the folk-metalfans who like the (Slavic) folk to stay close to the original thing. Spiced up with a lot of metal this is very nice folk, and what is very likeable: with authentic instrument!
Lutavierje has done a nice job with ‘Songs from Poured Clouds’, when it goes on like this is may be raining forever…

Tracklist

1. Give, Yaryla! 3.40
2. Ros 3.34
3. Rye Was Ripening 4.52
4. Spring 4.20
5. Vyales 2.33
6. Oh, Ice-cold Sea 4.38
7. In the Wild Field 4.13
8. Oath 4.14
9. From beneath the Latyr Stone 3:40