The band Lord Landless was founded in 2000 by two writers who shared a love for music: Silva – a freelance educationist from Lüneburg, self-educated guitarist and educated singer with musical roots in punk and rock. She was a member of Femme Fatale from 1996 to 1999 and rejected the offer to become a pop starlet. Silva’s songs are snap-shots focused on emotions, though there may be some rather complex stories behind them
and Thesilée – a librarian and booksellar from Aix-la-Chapelle Aachen, currently driven by the ambition to become a professional writer. She received lessons for classical guitar, taught herself to play the mandola, and also had singing lessons. She’s done vocals and guitar in a folk group called Dülmen Municipal Music School Folk Group from 1991 to 1993. Thesilée has been writing songs and stories ever since she was a little kid – each with a fantasy background: Serious stories, songs with a pinch of salt, black humour and the occasional political side blow.
Today, they are completed by Kjenjo – bodhran, percussions, guitar, vocals – and Peredar – keyboards, vocals – and form a versatile quartett that combines both traditional and modernen instruments, tunes and lyrics with lots of on-stage fun to bring you entertainment with a deeper meaning. Too modern for medieval music, too playful for folk-rock, Lord Landless don’t want fit into any scheme but without further ado invented a genre of their own, MediEvil Music – with a capitel E for Evil – and look forward to any opportunity to share this philosophy with the world.
Joined by the filk-scene – folk music with fantasy and science-fiction elements – and with songs in German and English Lord Landless build a bridge between heartache and brainstrain to covey the fun of being special.