Elven Faerie music

There's a lot of music out there inspired by Tolkien. Most that I've heard is tedious and doesn't suggest Middle Earth in the slightest. Yesterday, while listening to the pretty, creepy songs at Faery Voices, a couple of tunes by something called "Caprice" caught my ear. A bit of googling turned up their web site. Caprice, I found, is a Russian ensemble featuring composer Anton Brejestovski and singer Inna Brejestovskaya. One of their projects is an "elven" trilogy, an attempt to create such music as Tolkien's elves would have made. [Actually, no; see below.] Some mp3s can be found here; I'd suggest "Princess Mee" for starters. (The poem is in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, included in The Tolkien Reader.) Often lively, sometimes pretty, occasionally astrigent and angular, the music is otherworldly in a way utterly beyond, say, Blind Guardian. amazon.com hasn't heard of them, but it looks like you can buy some of their recordings here.

Later: While Caprice's recordings possess more strangeness than other Tolkienesque music I've heard, they ultimately are contemporary evocations of Middle Earth and probably not much like the music the elves themselves would have made. Here are a couple of essays speculating on what true elven music would have been like:

The Development of Middle-Earth Music

Music in Middle-Earth

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Update: Anton Brejestovski from Caprice corrects my error:

I just would like to clarify that we are trying to make music of "modern faeries", not what Tolkien's elves would have made years ago.

I have a feeling this world really exists, because since my early childhood I was very keen on noticing and distinguishing "faerie" faces among humans - like the pic I'm attaching. I have always felt a strange attraction to such appearances. And then, when I was 24, the "music of the elves" started coming into my head.

The language of Laoris - if you have any interest in linguistics - was also entirely created by me - the grammar, vocab and script - as if these faeries were "speaking" through me. Our web site has quite sufficient amount on that, too.

So, to sum up, Caprice play faerie music, not Tolkien elves' (even though we borrowed so many of JRR's poetry).

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