With "Morgenrot," Sonor Teutonicus from the Osnabrück region present their fifth studio album. Stylistically, the album represents a continuous development from their previous albums. The quintet has added a modified drum kit to their "acoustic medieval folk rock." Alongside them, the usual guitar cittern, violin, bagpipes, shawm, and the key bass, a deep key fiddle, accompany the vocals with a rich soundscape and also feature as soloists in many instrumental parts.
Compared to its predecessor, "fürchtet euch nicht" (2015), "Morgenrot" contains significantly more original songs, such as the dramatic "In die Weite," the melancholy "Maledictio," the dreamy "Schwarz war die Nacht," the fiery "Wettergott," almost a heavy metal piece, and, of course, the rousing band anthem "Sonor Teutonicus." "es trügt der Schein," a lively Marian hymn from medieval Spain, was given new German lyrics, and the Middle High German poem "In dem Aberellen" was set to a dance-like major key melody. The rocking "Ecce torpet probitas," the popular "Papst und Sultan," and Oswald von Wolkenstein's "Wol auff wir wellen slauffen" are purely traditional pieces, as is "Diacove," a Bulgarian dance in 9/8 time and the album's only instrumental piece.
The 11 highly individual and varied pieces lead the listener through changing moods, telling of lovesickness and sensual pleasures, of deception, longing and hope, of deep night and bright day, of the dark sides of existence and bright moments. They always invite you to dance and sing along.
1. Sonor Teutonicus
2. Appearances are deceptive
3. Ecce torpet probitas
4. In the Aberellen
5. Into the distance
6. Diacove
7. Maledictio
8. Pope and Sultan
9. The night was black
10. Well, we're going to run on the waves
11. Weather God
