Fire + Ice
For the restaurant chain, specializing in an elaborate variation on "Mongolian barbecue," see Mongolian barbecue. Fire + Ice is the name of English musician Ian Read's primary neofolk ensemble.
Overview
Read founded Fire + Ice in 1991 after several years as a member of Sol Invictus. According to their sole website, "The heartlessness of the modern commercial consumer society ruins the lives of many. FIRE + ICE takes the purity and philosophy of early music and melds it into a message redolent with powerful seeds of honour, truth, loyalty and the bond of true friendship." [1]
The music reflects Read's keen interests in magic lore, runes, tradition, renaissance medievalism, Nordic mysticism and other esoteric and occult mysteries. His work as Fire + Ice have had a large amount of influence on neofolk music[2]. Others who have appeared on Fire + Ice albums include: Simon Norris, Michael Cashmore, Michael Moynihan, Annabel Lee, Joseph Budenholzer, Joolie Wood, Mathew Butler, Douglas Pearce and Freya Aswynn.
Discography
Albums
| Year |
Title |
Format, Special Notes |
Label |
| 1992 |
Gilded By The Sun |
CD |
New European Recordings |
| 1994 |
Hollow Ways |
CD |
Fremdheit |
| 1994 |
California Daze |
Live CD with Charlie MacGowan. |
Discordia |
| 1995 |
Midwinter Fires |
CD |
Fremdheit |
| 1996 |
Rûna |
CD |
Fremdheit |
| 1998 |
Seasons Of Ice |
CD, compilation of rarities and unreleased tracks |
Fremdheit |
| 2000 |
Birdking |
CD |
Fremdheit |
EPs
| Year |
Title |
Format, Special Notes |
Label |
| 1993 |
Blood On The Snow |
CD Single |
Fremdheit |
| 1996 |
Reyn Again |
7" |
Fremdheit |
| 2000 |
We Said Destroy |
Split 7" with Death In June |
Fremdheit |
Videos
Compilations
| Year |
Tracks |
Title |
Format, Special Notes |
Label |
| 1996 |
Seeker's Prayer, Purity |
The Pact: Flying In The Face... |
CD |
Fremdheit |
| 1998 |
Noxialicht |
The Nitha Fields |
CD |
Ultra! |
| 2000 |
Harry the sun |
The Pact: ...Of The Gods |
CD |
Fremdheit |
| 2004 |
Michael |
Tyr II |
CD included with magazine. |
Ultra! |
| 2005 |
Dragons in the sunset |
Looking For Europe |
4xCD set. |
Auerbach Tonträger |
References
External links
Official
Unofficial