Musica Radicum - which stands for "music of roots" in Latin - was based in 2002 with Snezhana Avtushkova and Viktor Rybalsky on bagpipes and Alexander Cherkashin on drums and oud. Soon Alexander Zhuro (Алесь Жура) joined them, and in 2004 the quartet recorded its first album, "Prologue". A bit later the famous castle of the XIIIth century in Wyborg, a Swedish, then Finnish and now Russian town on the Baltic sea, became the workplace and the workspace for Musica Radicum. A year after medieval folk theatre “The Brotherhood of St. Olaf” was created. Saint Olaf was the Swedish konung, and the last saint, acknowledged both by the Orthodox and the Catholic churches; there’s a tower in Wyborg castle – one of the highest in Scandinavia - named after him. Thus, actors and showmen joined the musicians, and then performances by Musica Radicum got the new form – it’s the medieval mysterial theatre, where music and fire meet old epic legends, such as “The Life of Saint Olaf” (Sweden), “Syre Galeven” (Belgium), “Tamlin” (England), “The Dance of the Dead” (Sout-Western Europe), “Ritter Oluf and the Queen of Fairies” (Denmark), "Batleyka" (Belarus). In Autumn 2007 the band with new line-up records the second album “Worlde Blis Ne Laste”, that includes musical pieces from the theatrical performances of the Brotherhood. The band performs medieval and folk music with the appropriate instruments, mixing melodies of Western and Eastern Europe with harmonies of the Near East and archaic Eurasian

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